I searched and didn't see a similar thread...and since I already did one about UM folks being friends with each other, I figured why not? :)

Of course my individual standing in life has changed alot since circa 1993/94, but there's some people I always thought would've been nice, entertaining, fun, cool or whatever else.

Me today I think I'd be friends with the '78 Larry Dickens. Not only did he seem really well loved by his family and a cool guy, but he'd be a great guy to have as a friend (as Stack said he was an ex-Marine) if anyone gave you trouble. He's alot braver than I would be in terms of confronting Edward Bell too, I would've just called the cops myself and wimped out on stopping him in person.

I wouldn't have been friends with The Wackers per se. Not just a still immense age difference even between me now and them in the 80s, which on its own doesn't really matter (I'm good at getting along with all sorts of people)... but I think they would be a ball to be around, just to find out more about their lives and the little things Bill might've said, along the lines of "A kook". :lol:

I'd also say I think I'd get along with...

Lee Selwyn - he liked alot of the 80s rock that I do, and according to his mom and his buddies, just seemed like a very nice and fun guy
Rob Schaffer
Kristi Krebs
Jason Horstly (the young couple where the boyfriend was senselessly murdred by their bitter female black neighbor) - he just seemed like a compassionate young guy, I felt horrible for his gf on camera grieving over his death too. :(
Devin Williams - not a trucker fan or a country fan, but he'd probably have just been a fun guy to drive and travel with

I'll come up with more later. In truth I think there's something about most of the good people/non criminals on UM I could've found at least a few things in common with.

I think I would've gotten along with Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer pretty well. I read more about her and Jeff in other true crime books, and we're both big into the outdoors and animals.

Same with Keith Reinhardt. I think he would've been very interesting to talk to, a sort of free-spirit dreamer type, and I can dig that.

I always thought Wendy Camp's husband Leon seemed pretty decent and a down to Earth kind of guy. And I'm sure Bill Wacker could spin a yarn or two.

I always thought Wendy Camp's husband Leon seemed pretty decent and a down to Earth kind of guy. And I'm sure Bill Wacker could spin a yarn or two.

LMAO!!!

I like that wheeler guy. He was tooo funny!

Well, of course, my #1 choice would be Robert Stack himself since he sounded like such an all-around terrific guy.

As far as people featured on the show, I probably would have been friends with Patrick Kelly, the film student who was killed in a hit-and-run in Tijuana, since he was a fellow film geek and was into screenwriting, so we definitely have a lot in common.

I'd like to say Eric Tamiyasu, but I wouldn't want to make Don Dixon jealous ;) .

Just for morbid curiosity sake, I'd also love to go out for salad with Jule Caylor some time :lol: .

I would be friends with Robert Stack if he was alive, I would be friends with Leon Camp who was Wendy's husband. I think I would be friends with Patti Stallings because I feel so sorry that she was wrongfully convicted of poisoning her baby. I would also be willing to be friends with death row inmate Darlie Routier who I believe is an innocent person on death row.

Mark Nichols if he's still a redneck. I think he would be a real cool dude to be friends with.

Hobbs-- I know a lot of unstable girls, or emotionally vulnerable ones, and I'd have liked to have been there for her, watched over her. Helped her in some way and been a friend to her, a friend she wouldn't have to go out at 11pm to see.

Hammond-- I'd have watched over her as well, and she seems to have been a very sweet girl and kind, even if she was naive. I was only an infant when she disappeared but even so...If I was her age back then I probably would've loved to have met her.

Hobbs-- I know a lot of unstable girls, or emotionally vulnerable ones, and I'd have liked to have been there for her, watched over her. Helped her in some way and been a friend to her, a friend she wouldn't have to go out at 11pm to see.

Hammond-- I'd have watched over her as well, and she seems to have been a very sweet girl and kind, even if she was naive. I was only an infant when she disappeared but even so...If I was her age back then I probably would've loved to have met her.

I agree. :) Yeah, I honestly feel like alot of people (esp in their teens, like Kathy Hobbs) just need some good friends or someone who can understand them. It's even more of a tragedy since if she hadn't gone to the store that night, she'd almost certainly still be alive. That prediction she made of dying young several years earlier was an even spookier coincidence. I'm guessing the kids in the apartment complex were her only friends (and that was more on a casual level).

Yeah, Angie was cool...she seemed very 80s lol, and just generally a nice girl. Obviously it's sad when stuff like this happens to anyone, but that's about the last person you'd expect to have been violently kidnapped and possibly killed. Rob seemed like a great guy too.

For me I'll also say...

Kristi Krebs - in '93 she was old enough for me to be actual friends with her (me now) and I also believe her breakdown could've been prevented or at least lessened, if she had someone who would really listen and be her friend. I think her parents are good people, but I kinda disagreed with her dad upon just having the gut reaction to taking her to the hospital without even attempting to have a heart to heart talk with her, or even have her go see a counsellor.

Gordon Page Jr and even his parents (who seemed like very nice people) - I'm about the age now he was when he went missing. Granted he was probably a medium functioning Autistic and might've not been capable of holding down jobs without help, but I don't think he was as helpless as some professionals made him out to be. I would've tried to help Gordie and hung out with him, just so the poor dude wouldn't feel so alone.

Christi Nichols and Annette Burnside - nice young 80s women who probably sadly just had low self esteem and ended up with a couple worthless violent losers. I really wish Annette's friend Dave could've kicked Jim's coward a** just hand to hand. If I were her friend, I would've tried my hardest to.