As I was relating the previous series of events to Scott, we became curious. Very curious. Was my kidnapper really a famous race car driver? Scott, being an avid NASCAR fan, had to know.
So… we began a little research.
Why hadn’t I thought to look into this guy more on my own? Was I just settling for thinking that he must have been lying the whole time? Or, did I just not care?
Looking up this person online, it was hard to tell from the pictures. Of course, what happened was almost 19 years ago… and, all the photos we found of the man we were researching were much more recent. But…
It did look like him.
His hair wasn’t buzzed and he had a moustache 19 years ago, but… It did look like him.
We found that his marital status, etc. matched. Hmmm….
We also discovered that the person we were researching did live in Florida during that time. Hmmm….
Scott looked up the schedules for that weekend and the driver didn’t participate in any races during that time. Hmmm….
We found videos of the driver and his voice did sound the same. Hmmm….
Oh… and, he even raced IROC for a while which looked very similar to the car this man was driving that night. (And, of course, I could have mistaken a Firebird for a Camaro.) Hmmm…
There was other more personal information we found that coincided. Hmmm…
There were so many coincidences. Too many similarities.
Circumstantial? Of course, it could be. Could this man have been some sort of psycho fan impersonating the driver? Sure. Was he someone who worked for the driver and that’s how he knew some of the information he did? Possible.
Was he really this famous race car driver? I definitely couldn’t rule it out!
No matter who he was, what made him do an about-face so suddenly? Did sleep clear his mind? Did seeing his wife bring him to his senses? Did he sober up and realize what he had done? Did I have a lucky break? Who knows? Whatever it was, I was thankful it didn’t end up much worse. (Especially with all that my family was going through that weekend.)
Was he really a famous race driver?
Hmmm….
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Well now I’m curious, dammit!!
LOL. There are an awfully lot of similarities. Not sure if there can be that many coincidences. But, I certainly don’t have any solid proof that it was him. I guess since I’m giving the disclaimer that I don’t know for sure it was him… and, this is what the man was saying, not me… I’ll go ahead and say the name. He claimed he was M… M…
I’m not a NASCAR fan, but that name sounds familiar…
Well, he’s still racing so if it’s not him, I certainly don’t want to cause any trouble for him.
You should probably edit that comment to take his name out of it then. It’s possible a search engine could catalog it.
I doubt it since it’s only in the comment and not in the story. But, I didn’t say it was him… the guy said it was him. I’m just relaying the story of what happened. How about I just use the initials?
Uh, sure. I’d just hate for you to get in any sort of trouble. Even false statements invite scandal nowadays…
That’s true. 😦
Good idea.
Such a mystery.