42 years after young Md. sisters vanished, man pleads guilty in case that stunned D.C. region

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7. I had an encounter with him.

I was on a trail behind my building prior to a photo class at Nova. He had a Rottweiler type dog with him and came out of the woods. He followed me and tried to get me to take pics of a watering hole in the woods. I declined and he walked along beside me as I was trying to get back my building. I tried to make small talk with him ( instead of running) . He told me he didn't work because his car was impounded, he was 18 and from Florida. I said goodbye, gonna be late for class and he didn't follow me further,but he now knew my apartment building. I didn't think much about it, after all it was a secure building and a high rise. Well, that night he called all the apartments from the ring up phone until he got me and I refused to buzz him in. He got in anyway and tried to get me to open the door. I was terrified and called a male friend to come spend the night and I never heard from him again until months later, I caught an article in WAPO about him with a picture. Holy shit! Luck was with me. I was 20 or 21 at the time and lived in Shirlington area of Arlington. The moral of this story is if somebody creeps you out, trust your instincts.