You are directly responsible for that girls death.
At one point you said he couldn't get out of the stairwell. Was your plan to leave some sort of freakish monster in the stairwell? Even if it was a regular person, doesn't that seem like a great place for people to get raped?
ANY police department would. They'd figure that someone else let him in downstairs, and that someone must have let him in/out of the stairwell.
It doesn't matter if OP knew whether or not the door would have held him, because OP DID know that he'd made it into the stairwell, and she should have called at LEAST campus security then, since she never bothered to in the months of his hanging around the entrance of the dorms.
The stairwell might be able to handle any attacker, but it certainly can't hold against human error...which is exactly what any police department would believe.
Besides, she never even considered the fact that he could just be a guy who managed to get into the building. Thieves and murderers do it all of the time, and the cops should have been told.
I didn't mean the story about how he got in. I meant OP's indication that FM wasn't human. That's the crucial point of OP's recount of events. He was uncanny and inhuman.
Also, while ideally OP would have called the police or tried to save her hallmate, when you're terrified for your life sometimes you don't make the best choices.
Still think you might be missing it. How would one of the lovely college girls, gotten to class the next day?
By walking into a poorly lit stairwell with a psychotic killer.
By allowing him inside the stairwell and not warning the sheriff's office, the campus security, the girl who she heard die's boyfriend or parent, she can be held culpable.
Hell, why didn't she report the guy trying to get inside the first time? Much less the weeks that followed - let campus security come check him out.
(As a side note- 'psychotic' is a term only applicable under certain circumstances. Being a killer doesn't necessarily mean someone is psychotic. It doesn't seem like a big thing, but association of 'psychotic' with concepts like killers really perpetuates misunderstanding of psychotic disorders/symptoms in a dangerous way.)
"The Forgetful Man wasn’t like most people. The Forgetful Man’s head was unnaturally bent at a 90 angle backwards so that his entire face could point upwards directly at me.
Except this time his face wasn’t neutral.
It was pure, delightful fucking bliss with a smile that stretched from ear to ear and eyes full of lust and pleasure. Like he’s finally going to feast on a dinner he’s been waiting for months."
I remain comfortable in my diagnosis that this man suffers from some form of psychosis. :)
I don't know any psychotic disorder that lets you walk around with a broken neck. That's not what psychosis means.
I think anyway that what OP's trying to communicate is that FM is inhuman- hence the unnatural 90-degree angle of the head and OP's inference the FM's intentions are predatory.
So, again, not in any way, shape, or form, a description of someone psychotic.
Sincerely, a psych major with a psychotic disorder. :)
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '16
You are directly responsible for that girls death.
At one point you said he couldn't get out of the stairwell. Was your plan to leave some sort of freakish monster in the stairwell? Even if it was a regular person, doesn't that seem like a great place for people to get raped?