Holy shit, you even made a map.
Well done.
Since the real Amanda grew up west of Shreveport and Daniel likely to the east/northeast, I wonder if he got the idea to steal her name because he knows her somehow or their families knew each other?
Edit - yeah just re-read the Amanda section and you're on the same line of thinking. Probably some girl he was creeping on.
There is only one Amanda Karevicius with a verifiable online presence in the entire United States and it just so happens to be someone who grew up in the same small city as him.
I don't believe that's a coincidence.
There are two addresses linked to Daniel Harris while Amanda was still in Louisiana. The earliest is in Bossier City, the second is in Keithville (2002). Highlighted below (Bethany is in the southwest corner, Keithville in the south, Bossier City in the northeast)
Keithville is closer to Bethany, but even Bossier City is only roughly a half hour drive.
This is in the post, but I'll repost it here:
- Amanda graduated from Huntington HS in 1998, which is just west of the airport visible on the map in southwest Shreveport.
- Daniel's younger brother Joseph graduated from Airline HS in 2002, which is in Bossier City.
(This is from the Shreveport Times archives - at least around that time, they printed lists of graduates in their paper, which are now digitally archived.)
I was unable to find Daniel listed anywhere, which might mean that the archive on "Newspapers" doesn't include that page, or the OCR for his name in particular was scuffed, or it could mean he didn't graduate high school. I'm not sure. In any case, I couldn't verify where he went to high school.
However, free people search websites claim that the real Amanda Karevicus had already moved to Kentucky by May 2004, when Daniel P. Harris was 22 years old.
This means that whatever infatuation with Amanda would have had to have occurred either around the time of high school or at most a couple years afterwards. He is now 42 years old.
he knows her somehow or their families knew each other?
From the obituaries of Amanda's father Frank and Daniel's father Randy, they both worked at the GM assembly plant in Shreveport. They may have became friends through work, though that's not really a safe bet as there would have been hundreds/thousands of people employed there.