When I was a child in the SF Bay Area, the Zodiac killer threatened to kill a schoolbus full of children. So there was a frenzy, and they made us do duck & cover type drills in the school bus and showed us films of what to do in case...
Ever since then I have temporarily memorized license plates of cars when I see them in suspicious circumstances, INCLUDING one of a guy who turned out to be a serial killer but the police never followed up on him.
Scary. BTW, most vegetarians are cereal killers.
How do you know he turned out to be a serial killer if the police never followed up on it?
I was in a car with my then bf years ago driving south on 19th ave in Phoenix. Saw a pickup truck with a homemade camper shell on it; on the back instead of a door it had a drop down piece that flapped over a piece that was upright, the bottom piece about 3 feet or so high and the drop down looked like 4 feet and hung over the bottom piece by a little.
There was some kind of lock on it, like a chain with a master lock and coming down from the gap between (when pushed out) was a black kids arm trying desperately to get the lock or open up the doors to get out. Was very obvious. I told my bf at the time to get up there and see who was driving to stop it and he would not. I kept saying can’t you see that kid is trapped and trying to get out? I think he was chicken and made out like I was crazy.
I made him pull over to where I could use the pay phone and called the police. I even memorized the plate and to my frustration the girl on the phone acted ho hum another nut. I really do not think she took me seriously.
A week later it came out that someone had tortured and brutally chopped up a young black boy, a kid, and left his body out in South Moutain, which can be reached by taking 19th ave south.
Still bothers me.