Can you imagine. . .

If you suspected your father was a serial killer who had evaded detection for decades, killed his own father, and You know, you get one of these every time:

Some who know him expressed shock Sunday, saying they could not imagine that he was behind the crimes.

"I've known him for years," Clark said, adding he has seen nothing "that would even tend to lead to these accusations."

"To my knowledge he was very nice, he was friendly," Clark said. "What I know of him, definitely a family man."

(from CNN) They said it about Manson, Scott Peterson, and Jack the Ripper (aka Walter Sickert). When will people learn to quit saying this?