How well do we really know someone, or at least think you do? Over the past couple of days, I have asked myself that same question over and over.

http://www.drc.state.oh.us/cfdocs/in...&offnum=385989
http://www.the-review.com/Site%20Arc...0121local.html
http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/...an00/0178.html
http://www.the-review.com/Site%20Arc...0119local.html

Joseph Wilkes was someone I grew up with, and was very close to. He was a great friend, very sweet, the kind of guy that was raised right. Not once, did it ever cross my mind that he would ever think of harming someone in the way he murdered the Alliance woman. He was just a good friend. He had his problems, like anyone else I knew. Growing up and being a teenager, we all did. There were times where we were all on the verge of being 'kicked out' or wanted to leave home because we didn't get our way about something. That was just the way things were then.

I've read over these articles a thousand times, searching for some clue. But the monster in the arcticles isn't the person that I knew at all. I don't know who he is. It makes me question so many things. And it scares me to think that it could have been me. He took so little money for the crime, who's to say he wouldn't have taken money to do the same to me?

I've 'known' him for years...or at least I thought I did. I guess I didn't really know him at all.

So, my question is:

How do you know someone? How do you know when they're capable of doing something like this, even though, everything you've ever thought of them...never entailed murder?

(Also, this is something that happened a few years ago now, but it has just come to mind recently, so forgive the ancient articles.)