Ed Solomon, de medebedenker van de Bill & Ted-franchise, heeft op Twitter onthuld dat hij in 1985 een verdachte was in de zaak rond de seriemoordenaar Night Stalker.

Op een nacht werd Solomon wakker gebeld door de pers omdat zijn wagen werd teruggevonden op een plaats waar de Night Stalker had toegeslagen. Solomons wagen stond echter voor zijn appartement geparkeerd.

Achteraf bleek dat de wagen op de plaats van de misdaad recent aan Solomons beste vriend toebehoorde. Omdat Solomon de lening had ondertekend, stond de wagen op zijn adres ingeschreven.

Solomons vriend had de wagen pas verkocht en een zekere Richard Ramirez had hem van de nieuwe eigenaar gestolen. Ramirez bleek uiteindelijk de Night Stalker te zijn.

Lees het volledige verhaal hieronder:

https://twitter.com/ed_solomon/status/1352286457097052161?s=20

They had an odd attitude when they arrived, saying something about needing to just "check it out" because it was already not seeming likely that I was "the one." (Also: I had obviously just woken up and was – I suddenly realized – wearing only my tighty whiteys).

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

They wouldn't tell me anything about why they suspected me – which I have to say was exceedingly surreal (and I remember I had just read Kafka's The Trial, which made it even surreal..er?). But in the morning I saw the news – and I figured out what happened.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

The guy who 'd bought it was eating dinner in a Chinese restaurant downtown, where the car (a crappy red Toyota station wagon) was stolen – by Ramirez – and driven to the murder site, where it was abandoned. The irony is my 2 roommates (new ones) were in jail for the night.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

I remember my roommates coming back later that day & saying something like: "Oh my god have we got a story for you." And I remember replying with something like, "Okay, me, too.. but you go first."

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

And there was never a sense – aside from the jarring first call, which I hung up on saying "Who is this?" and then "Ha ha ha whoever this is" – of any real threat to me. Certainly because by the time they'd arrived they'd appeared to have already figured it out.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

He was, apparently, a super sweet guy. And my roommate – and great friend – is a true humanitarian and wonderful guy. Weird how stuff overlaps, though, and things take super strange turns.

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

Update: my old friend sent me this. It's an interesting look – from an entirely different angle. (And I realize I had a fact wrong: it was not the night he stole it in Chinatown but rather a few weeks later, after a different one, that the calls came.) Posted w his permission. pic.twitter.com/Slp68VksoZ

— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) January 21, 2021

Bron: Dark Horizons