Katelyn Markham, 22. Ohio - missing/murdered

[Harvest Moon]

Carter: "I'm not gonna acknowledge, um, the ridiculous things that people are saying because I know, (clears throat) [color=#FFFFE0]I mean, nobody's gonna know about me. They don't know me, and, uh, I know me. I know that I would never hurt Katelyn ever in a million years."

Bolding mine. If you were casually watching, you might miss that slip. He actually says "no one's gonna know about me". Maybe he meant, "no one knows me" but that is not what he said.

Thanks Cheyne, once again for the transcript! I noticed something odd about the "nobody knows me statement" but couldn't quite grasp what it was until I read the transcript. It could be that he is trying really hard to sound educated, and he is changing his wording from his normal speak to a more formal usage of the language. But it could also be an unconscious admission of the truth.

We still don't know anything about him. Did he finish high school, go to college? He uses some words that give me the impression that he is highly intelligent, but not necessarily formally educated to accommodate his level of intelligence. Case in point, the use of the words "terrified" and "horrific", is he just using them to sound more sophisticated and/or educated?

There are a lot of rangers in the "autism spectrum" and "personality disorders" that have this type of profile.

For instance from Wikipedia, because it is easy:
Asperger syndrome or Asperger's syndrome or Asperger disorder (play /ˈɑspərɡərz/[1] or /ˈæspərɡərz/[2]) is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. It differs from other autism spectrum disorders by its relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive development. Although not required for diagnosis, physical clumsiness and atypical use of language are frequently reported.[3][4]


I once experienced a Thanksgiving dinner at an ex-in law's house where a person diagnosed with Asperger syndrome got so agitated by the dinner conversation around sociology-political topics that he started a fight and knocked over the dining room table. The mashed potatoes ended up stuck to the ceiling. :O Major damage was done to the precious china.