by hexicon » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:08 am
Hi oneno, what an awful thing to happen. I'm glad that things are going so much better in your life.
I'll try to summarize one long story. After college, all my friends and I stopped drinking (and drugging in some cases) and got on with our lives, except my college BF. I wound up dumping him right after I started law school, but we occcasionally kept in touch, mostly when he was trying the "make amends" part of the various 12-step programs he flunked out of. He went nuts with the coke and wound up in grad school at the University of Florida.
Right when M. started grad school, the so-called Gainesville Ripper murdered half a dozen or so UF students in horrible ways (decapitation, etc.). I always joked that M. did the deed because supposedly all the women murdered were petite and slender with long straight dark hair (like me).
Flash forward a couple of years. Unbeknownst to me, M had begun supporting his drug habit with bank robberies, first in FLA and then back here in the PNW. So, I've finished school and have just started at a prestigious law firm when the receptionist pages me "Ms. Hexicon, the FBI is on the line."
The FBI is interviewing M's friends since he's now a suspect in the bank robberies, which are escalating. The agent asked me if there was anything else I wanted to tell him about M., so I mentioned the Gainesville Ripper. He said, "Well, ma'am, you're not the first person to make that connection."
Later, I found out that M. was seriously under suspicion in the Gainesville murders because the actual murderer was also a bankrobber. M was caught and served about five years. AFAIK he's delivering pizzas in Seattle today.
My other crazy ex story is one that only lawyers will appreciate: After the first Mr. Hex and I divorced, he quit his high-paying law job and decided he wanted to be a minister (he didn't set foot in a church the entire time we were married), not just in the ordinary Protestant denomination to which he nominally belonged but in a holy-roller, speaking-in-tongues church. Then, after he was not admitted to seminary, he got a job as a law professor . . . teaching civil procedure. The man was born to teach civil procedure and I do say that in the nicest possible way.[}:)]