Where Hallucination Ends and Reality Begins
The drugs Charles was on caused him to hallucinate, and he was convinced that there were FBI agents surrounding his hotel. The thing is the FBI very likely were there. As Cavanagh points out in his podcast, “It’s hard to know where the hallucination ends, and reality begins for him.”
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Two days later, his paranoia came to fruition and what occurred was a manic six-hour standoff with the police, before he was finally arrested. It was September 1, 1980 when the police just outside of Vanhorn, Texas found themselves in an intense face-off with the fugitive.