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A Michigan teenager who was allegedly attacked by a stranger claiming he was conducting a social experiment gave a description to cops that led to his arrest—and imminent charges for two murders he is accused of committing the same week in two different states.
Aurora Dahl, 18, was out jogging near her home in Gaastra at around 6 a.m. on Aug. 1. She said she was alarmed to hear footsteps approaching behind her and, when she turned to look, she saw a man running towards her shouting that he was conducting a social experiment. He was holding what Dahl told WLUC looked like duct tape and mace. When he caught up with her, Dahl said, he attacked her, and she fought for her life.
At one point during the terrifying 10-minute ordeal, Dahl said the man was on top of her trying to strangle her. But she was able to unbalance her assailant, rolling him into a ditch and giving her a window to escape. Even after she broke free, the man kept trying to talk to her, she said. “It was really weird,” Dahl told the TV station. “He mentioned to me that I was bleeding. I said: ‘Obviously, you punched me.’” After running home, Dahl called the cops.
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