{"id":809,"date":"2024-12-25T04:14:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2024-12-25T04:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T04:14:50","slug":"the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-vm.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"The Night We Were Saved by a Future Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car died in a remote area.<\/p>\n

There were no mobiles then, so we waited. An hour later, a college student passed by and drove us to town.<\/p>\n

We offered money but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, my wife called in tears. With a shaky voice she told me to open the news.<\/p>\n

Turns out that student was actually a 35-year-old man who had robbed over 30 people in forests and abandoned areas, targeting drivers late at night.<\/p>\n

I had chills when I saw that he had been wanted by the police in several states.<\/p>\n

His methods were chillingly clever\u2014he\u2019d either pretend to be a lost hiker to hitch a ride or pick people up in his own car.<\/p>\n

\n

After gaining their trust, he\u2019d rob them of everything and leave them stranded in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n

To this day, we don\u2019t know why he didn\u2019t rob us.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was because there were two of us, or perhaps because I was tall and muscular,<\/p>\n

which might have intimidated him.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to have walked away unharmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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