Okay, what really happened...and why I care
Okay, as many of you can guess, that guy was a serial killer, Ted Bundy. When he pulled out the crowbar, in one account I was reading it said she caught the crowbar with her hand right before it cracked her skull (the thought of that makes me want to cringe), then ran away. The other account I read said she kicked him in the genitals, then ran away. In real life, he called himself Officer Roseland, not Officer Hargus. He didn't have a Ford Taurus, but a VW bug, but I didn't want to say "VW bug" because that would be too far fetched because it was from the 1970s. I was wondering about leaving out the part when he acted in control like an officer at the mall saying someone was breaking into her car, because I wasn't so interested in what someone would do there and thought it would distract from my main concern, but then leaving that part out wouldn't let the situation develop to the part about going to "police headquarters" and would be too choppy. I guess some people, like this girl who was the only one to escape from Ted Bundy after being kidnapped, spend too much time in confirmation bias by seeing why what other people say may be true rather than looking for why it may be wrong. Just like I feel when I see so many people tell other people that they had a class covering handwritting analysis and that they can analyze people using it. I always call BS on them because the results are almost always something that applies to anyone. However, a lot of people still say "Wow, that is me!" when they hear their results read to them.
The real reason why I asked about this scenario isn't because I doubt a suspicion light would come on in my head in a situation like this (I think a lot of people would be skeptical), but because if one does people are always saying to go along with the police officer if you don't want to get tased, pepper sprayed, etc, and work it out in court later on. That's good if they have a uniform, but if they have plain clothes, show me an ID, and then don't want me to verify with 911 to make sure they are who they say they are and to keep my hands out of my pockets where he can see them, I don't want to get in trouble in court if I apply "force" to them and they happen to be LE. At the same time, I don't want some nut case serial killer using techniques on me that I instantly become suspicious about. Some accounts say that this girl even said she felt quite suspicious once he said "police headquarters" and showed the VW bug, even though he showed his badge, but make it sound like she didn't know what to do. One of the accounts I looked at said that she refused his instruction to buckle her safety belt before they took off.
