Samara rolled her eyes at him. "I don't know what you work with, don't patronise me," but she wasn't really all that affected by it. She was more interested in getting results than arguing with him.
She considered his statement. "That would actually make more sense as to how they are behaving. I've never heard of anyone manipulating memories in such a way but that doesn't mean it can't be done. So say the box had horcrux-like magic so that when it was opened, the memories left it and sought out vessels because those pieces of soul have to be attached to objects. In this case the memories had to be attached to objects, but since memories come from humans first and foremost they sought out human vessels rather than inanimate ones because they felt most familiar."
Samara chewed on her lip for a moment. "My next question was whether she was murdering these people because she wanted to or because she had to in order to retrieve the memories from them, but if we consider it as horcrux, she would have to, wouldn't she? We can't pull the memories by any conventional means, but...do you think they might remove themselves if we tried to create a horcrux ourselves?"