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Interesting! But I'll bet you can't top this:

I'll give it a try. The older sister of my girlfriend volunteered at the suicide clinic where Ted was prowling and I met him briefly on one occasion.

When I was in high school I met Eddie Stokes. He was a chronic loser who worked overtime trying to be somebody's - anybodies friend. His dad owned a prominent funeral home in town and Eddie frequently invited kids to sleepovers where it was implied that tours of the facility - complete with cadavers - would be in the offing. I was offered the "opportunity" but passed. It turns out the the focus of his entire existence was seducing and molesting boys.

As a surprise to no one, Eddie turned out to be a serial child molester with over 200 victims. The intarbewz are getting increasingly difficult to find stuff on, but I did locate a reference to a news article here: http://www.auxbeacon.org/civil-air-patrol-networking-reveals-older-pedophile-case/

Years later I took a job as an assembly mechanic for a truck manufacturer. I wasn't there but a couple of years when I started hearing the rumors circulating about the guy who was suspected of murdering people. It wasn't long before I rubbed shoulders with Gary Ridgeway. I was admittedly just as curious as any to him for myself.

He worked in the paint shop and I worked on the assembly line and circumstances often had us doing hand-off of work. Gary knew that he was under constant scrutiny but there was a part of him that was attracted to taking risks (I guess me too!). I wouldn't exactly say that I befriended him but I will say that I visited his home for a BBQ and met his wife. Of course that was before he was convicted of murdering 49 girls as "The Green River Murderer".

So, how did I do? ;'}