Yesterday, the news about a serial killer who recently murdered a female friend of his was all over the internet, most especially on X (formerly known as Twitter) and everyone was basically talking about it. The guy had been apprehended by the Nigerian army and was later handed over to the police.
While I was reading about it, I had seen this tweet from a lady who was directing it to the guys, basically saying that henceforth, no guy should attack her whenever they ask for a meet and she picks a restaurant. She was just saying that she no longer will be meeting people (probably someone she's meeting for the first time) in a private place.
And while that made sense, something I feel that she was missing was that most times, these serial killers do not attack during the first meet. Most of them take their time, they become your friend and just wait for the perfect time when you've let your guard down before they attack.
A perfect example is that of the lady who was murdered. The guy who killed her is a long time friend of hers, someone she probably never thought would do something like that to her, ever.
So yeah, while taking those extra safety measures is a good and necessary thing to do, sometimes you just have to pray to God that whoever it is you're meeting isn't a sociopath or a serial killer, because unless you don't plan on getting real close to anyone in your life, you're always going to find yourself alone with someone, in a private room every now and then.
Be it with your friends or your siblings, and the reason why I said siblings is because the serial killer also killed his sister a long time ago, so yeah, tell me how one is suppose to stop that from happening because you cannot not be in the same space alone with your own brother or sister.
Thinking about it is crazy and scary, even for me as a guy because there are also killers out there who are women too (it's not like there's a particular gender that can only be a serial killer), and now everytime I'm about to meet someone new (a guy or a lady), I won't be able to help it but ask myself "What if this person is a killer too?"