Chapter 5

“Sharon DuBois?” asked Kim of the attractive brown haired, brown eyed coed who answered the door.

“Yes. You must be the FBI agent who called,” she responded ushering Kim and Chris into the small dorm room. “After you called, my roommate agreed to make herself scarce this afternoon so we could talk.” The girl motioned the two agents to chairs while the pretty coed sat on the edge of the bed. “Actually I don’t know what I can add to what I’ve already told the police...”

“Well, you never know,” responded Kim, “sometimes things ... new things can come to mind. I know it may be a bit tedious, but we’d like to hear you tell us what happened.”

The young college student bit her lip as if both trying to remember and deciding if she really wanted to go through this again.

“Please,” intoned Kim, “If we have any chance of catching this guy we have to know exactly what happened.”

“It ... it was about 9:00 o’clock last Thursday. I had had supper with some friends and decided to do some studying at the library. I selected some books from the shelf and sat at one of the study tables. I’d been there maybe fifteen or twenty minutes when this guy walks up and sits down at the table across from me. I really didn’t notice him at first as I had a test coming up and I needed the study time.

“Did he say anything to you?” Asked Kim as Chris took notes.

“Not at first. He had a couple of books which he seemed to be reading. I ... I have to admit I did notice that he was rather handsome and well dressed compared to a lot of the other college students.”

“So you think he was a student?”

“At first I just assumed so, but when he spoke it startled me.”

“What do you mean?”

“His voice was ... mature ... cultured you might say. That’s when I thought he might be older, a graduate student or maybe even one of the professors.

“What did he say?”

“He said he sensed that I was stressed and I told him I had a big exam coming up. He smiled and that was when I first looked into his eyes. I ... don’t know how to describe it. I just couldn’t look away. It was like I was suddenly in a trance or something. I remember he suggested I needed a break. I told him I really needed to study but he just smiled again and suddenly the test just didn’t seem that important. He asked if I’d like to get something to drink across campus. I ... It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done but somehow I said no. It was like I didn’t want to disappoint him, but he just smiled and suggested we just walk around the library. I tried, I really did, to say no again but his voice was just so persuasive and those eyes of his ... I was just spellbound. So we got up and walked back among the stacks. I knew we were getting back into a less used area but I didn’t seem to care. Somehow, I wanted to be him.”

The girl seemed to be struggling so Kim gave her some space.

“When we were far back in a corner he told me how attractive I was and we ... kissed. At that point it was as if I had had three or four margaritas. I just hung on his every word and when he pulled me to him I just couldn’t resist.”

“Could he have slipped you something, a drug of some sort?”

“I don’t see how. Neither of us were drinking anything. In fact food and drink aren’t allowed in that part of the library.”

“Could he have injected you with something?”

“Again, I don’t think so because we were sitting on opposite sides of the table and when he first spoke I looked into his eyes and that was when I began to feel strange, almost dreamlike.”

Kim looked to Chris who simply gave her a shrug of the shoulders and so she returned to the questioning.

“What happened then?”

“The announcement came over the sound system that the library would be closing in five minutes. I think I mentioned that we should be leaving but he smiled and said why don’t we do something a little naughty and led me to an out of the way area. There was the last call before closing and then most of the lights went out. Everything was quiet and we knew we were alone. I felt a bit of fear but every time I would start to mention that we should leave he would pull me closer and kiss me and ... oh, God!!! I wanted him to hold me, kiss me,” she sobbed.