By Chuck Hustmyre

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No one else who knows Dominique and who has spoken publicly about him has mentioned anything about him dating other gay men.

In fact, several people, both straight and gay, have described Dominique was a loner and an outcast. One former roommate told The Courier newspaper, "He didn't have many friends. He didn't keep friends."

The former roommate, who lived briefly with Dominique in the mid-1980s, said he didn't recall Dominique dating or bringing men home.

Crime Library asked the video store owner if she thought Dominique's "dates" could actually have been his way of referring to the men he is charged with killing. "I don't want to think so," she said, "but I don't know."

A former neighbor of Dominique's, who lives across the street from his sister's trailer, said Dominique was a good neighbor. "He was nice," said the woman, who did not give her name. Dominique played with her children and other children in the small neighborhood, made up mostly of mobile homes. She also saw him playing frequently with his sister's grandchildren.

Dominique's arrest shocked the former neighbor. "He's not the person we knew," she said.

Deception — hiding behind a mask of normalcy — is a survival skill common to serial killers, said FBI Special Agent Jim Bernazzani, head of the bureau's New Orleans Division. "Serial killers hide in plain sight," Bernazzani said. "They do not distinguish themselves. That's why they are so effective."

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