Did he go to the police? It may sound silly, but he may want to contact the people investigating these cases. Sometimes it’s little details that to us seem meaningless that can bring a case together.
Per the above article they have a website for more info and some e-mail addresses.
Here's a few details from my conversation just now:
--He was with friends in K-ville attending a football game and the partying happened after the game
--the small group was at a large bar in K-ville and got 'invited' to a party happening at a Ramada Inn where a large swimming pool with fountain in the middle was in use by partyers
--he ran out of smokes and decided to go to a convenience store across from the Ramada Inn, to buy smokes
--he 'awoke' behind the store with a sizeable bump on his head and no wallet and made his way back to the Ramada Inn where he passed out next to the pool
--when he awoke beside the pool, his knuckles were all skinned up and sore like he had been in a major fight, and a favorite pocket knife my son had given him for Christmas was missing, along with his shoes and his shirt, and he had one or two bruises on face and forearm
--he remembers going to the Ramada Inn with all his friends and a girl he had dated occasionally whom he 'ran into' in K-ville (?) though he had dated her in Murfresboro not in K-ville
I have asked him to try and recall whom invited the small group to the Ramada Inn party (was it this female friend whom he ran into unexpectedly) and can he search his memories to determine if there were any people in the Ramada Inn party crowd who did not fit the typical partying college kids crowd. He has assured me that he will go read up on the website and let me know if he remembers anything, ANYTHING about that night after this long ago. His episode does sound like he 'escaped' from someone or some group which had targeted him when he spearated from the party. He would not have been carrying a significant amount of money because he was a struggling college staudent at the time. BTW, if he struggled to escape these perps, he probably left someone injured because he is a big powerful guy and his pocket knife (3 1/2 inch folding blade) was missing and he went back to the area behind the convenience store ro look for it and his shoes and shirt and found nothing there!
He did not go to the police, BUT since he may have injured his assailant(s) in the fight he cannot recall, it might be a good idea to notify the website people and they can check emergency room records for the night in question! Something will eventually break this serial killing case, somehting as seemingly meaningless as an emergency room visit.