Bronislav Nedic

While Vanessa Ferguson ate a cheeseburger and coleslaw at a Denny's at a truck stop on I-10 just west of Las Cruces, New Mexico, a man sat down beside her at the counter. Yvonne, a waitress, called him "Bron" and asked how he was, to which he replied "I'll do". When asked what he wanted to order, he pointed to Ferguson's plate and said he'll have what she was having. The two began chatting and he introduced himself as Bronislav Nedic.

Nedic was in his early forties, with thick black hair and beard that had only a few threads of white. His arms were muscular and hairy with black hair too and a big, nasty-looking, pink scar on his left forearm and a cross tattoo with a "C" above and below the bar on each side on the back of his right hand. When Ferguson asked about the tattoo, Nedic explained it was the Ocilima, a symbol of Serbian unity. The four "C"s were cyrillic for "S"s and stood for Samo sloga Srbina spasava which translated to "only unity will save the Serbs". When asked about the scar, he explained he fought against the "terrorist" Bosnians and the "Nazi" Croats when Yugoslavia came apart and was injured by a RPG.