hellziggy's not-so-normal life

[hellziggy]

So there was this new character introduced on Bones last week. He's played by John Francis Daley from Freaks & Geeks:


He seemed familiar besides the whole "he's on tv thing" and I finally placed it. He was reminding me of the first boy I ever officially "went steady" with back when I was in 10th grade, R.
This is what R. looked like when I dated him (crappy quality because I took a picture of a picture instead of dragging out the scanner):


Yeah, some resemblance. Skinny, dark messy hair, kinda geeky.

But what R. looks like today? I know there are some of you out there who I've mentioned this to. For many years it was an abstract thing that I had briefly heard about in the news but didn't really have any confirmation on.
Thanks to the wonders of the interwebs though, I did a Google search a while back for his full name and I got one hit. Yes, only one. Because someone who has been in prison since 1990 really doesn't have a web presence other than the Minnesota Department of Corrections offender locator page.
Here he is boys & girls, my first official boyfriend:

I'm not sure how old the picture is. He went to prison when he was 21 and he is 38 now.
It's a very surreal thing for me to think about...

Comments

Surreal indeed

[freyjakj.livejournal.com]

Wierd! Life sentence. Did you know about this before you found his google presence? Have you found out what he is in for exactly?

Re: Surreal indeed

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

I was in Fargo at the time but genevra had heard it mentioned briefly on the news. He has a fairly unique middle name and they always use the whole name when talking about people arrested for murder, so we knew it had to be him. We don't know any specifics though. He killed his father (or maybe step-father.) I don't know any of the details of weapon or anything like that.
So I've known that he was probably in prison since back when it happened, but a few months ago I randomly decided to google him and found his DOC page.

Re: Surreal indeed

[genevra.livejournal.com]

It was really freaky. Mom & I were watching the news. They said, "R is wanted for the murder of his stepfather. Authorities are looking for him.", or somesuch. We looked at each other and said, no way, there can't be two of them, and called hellziggy to tell her about it. I also got to remind her that he tried to date me first, but I turned him down. (His secret admirer act creeped me out!)