"He'd say, 'Hi, remember me? I lived down the street in the corner house. How ya been?'" Des Peres, Mo., Detective Marshall Broughton said. "Obviously [the women] didn't remember him, but he did it so quickly and convincingly that they felt embarrassed that they didn't know him." Creepy serial hugger kisses and gropes 36 women over THREE YEARS,
Broughton told the Riverfront Times that the suspect was identified after one of his victims took down his license plate and police looked at security tapes from a local supermarket where the alleged hugger had committed some of his questionable embraces. Broughton also said a victim out of Des Peres picked him out of a photo lineup. Woman Arrested After Giving Boyfriend Unwanted Hug,
Jezebel nicely sums up the ambiguities of serial-hugging. Jessica Lussenhop,
