“He didn’t get to see a movie. He didn’t get to go to a concert, he didn’t get to fall in love & get his heart broken,” Tessman added. “It kills me.”
Inside his room, which was secured with a slide lock from the outside, the man read & reread a handful of books, he told the police, looking up words he didn’t know in a dictionary. He “ultimately educated himself,” the police affidavit reads.