Chapter 7
Seven Things
I rushed downstairs because I didn't want Casey's dad coming down and asking questions on where I live and stuff. Who knows what lies mom told him about me? If my lies were totally different, I'd be caught in a second. Casey was there, and when I entered he looked up. "Do you want to eat something?"
"No thanks." I said, because I really wasn't hungry.
"C'mon, just eat."
"I'm not hungry, and besides, I gotta get out of here."
"Right right." he sighed. He hopped up from his chair and led me outside. The last time I had been here, I had left because I was mad at him. I wasn't now. Things were were totally different now.
1) I has NO CLUE why his dad would allow me to stay here and 2) Actually, I do have an idea why he'd allow me- because he's dating my mom so he might think "it's safe" or "okay" or something.
"This'll be a long walk." he said, because I didn't have my skateboard.
"Sorry. You can stay, you know."
"Nah. I'd rather get out of the house."
"Oh." I said. "That's cool."
We began to walk. We were silent for the longest time. And then Casey stopped and said, "Hey, what's that?" he pointed to a newspaper clipping and picked it up. It read,
Santa Martina Serial Killer
There have been a series of several murders this past month in several areas of Santa Martina. Seven murdered victims were found, the first one took place August 7th to a young woman names Leah Cerney. Cerney was killed by being stabbed seven times. Another victim, Dempsey Dalilah was killed by being shot seven times. The other five victims, Cassie Wagner, Alicia Charles, Austin Jacobs, Martin Ferrari and Samantha Morano, were also killed by violent murder weapons. Each victim was either shot, beaten, raped, stabbed, or bludgeoned seven times. Below is a list of the victims, their ages and how they were murdered.
Leah Cerney, female, 14- stabbed to death (7X)
Dempsey Dalilah, male, 21- shot to death (7X)
Cassie Wagner, female, 19- stabbed to death (7X)
Samantha Morano, female, 17- raped (7X)
Austin Jacobs, male, 22- bludgeoned (7X)
Alicia Charles, female, 27- shot to death (7X)
Martin Ferrari, male, 19- beaten to death (7X)
There are currently DNA tests running for the horrible murderer. Police are using the information they could find from Morano's death much to their advantage. Be careful, Santa Martina.
Reported by Delanie McDevan
"Wow," Casey muttered, "that's weird."
"Yeah," I said, "And why seven times each? Notice, the first murder was on the seventh of August. Today is the thirteenth. That was six days ago. If he killed Leah on the first day, Dempsey on the second, Cassie on the third, Samantha on the fifth and so on, that would be seven victims, one victim killed each day."
"Right. But also, it doesn't say anywhere that each of the seven victims were killed one per day."
"I know, I was just... Thinking." I stated.
He sort of laughed. "Do you always get tangled up in these crazy messes? Because this one is really serious, and you could end up dying, so don't."
"I won't..." I said.
"Promise." he told me.
"Promise." I mumbled.
"Look at me in the eyes and say it."
I turned my head up so I could look him directly in the eyes. "Promise." I said more fiercely now.
He laughed. "I believe you now."
Casey folded up the article and put it in his pocket. "But.. I won't stop you from thinking about it."
"Good." I said, "Because I wouldn't have." then I added, "Anyways, if this was just a small murder, I wouldn't have thought into it so much. But seriously- you don't find many- or any, actually, serial killer cases here in Santa Martina. And the fact that they used the number seven for a reason creeps me out... I'm curious."
"A little too curious." he said. "But once they actually run the tests and find him, your curiousity will be over."
"What if he's one of those unidentified creeps who doesn't really have any identity- like a name, or age or any specific looks? What if he got plastic surgery or-"
"Sammy! You obviously need an ID and all that information to get plastic surgery. You can't just walk in and say, 'Hey, change my face around, will ya?'"
"Oh... Good point. But.. What if he always changes his name around and stuff? And goes to different states and cities-"
Casey cut me off again. "To pass a state border you need a licence and an ID. Again, it's not really supporting anything."
Gosh, was it hard to work around him! But then again, he was giving me useful information.
Useful information! I made it sound like I was going to get stuck in this mess this time- no way.
I continued, though. "All of the victims were pretty young. More young females and males in their twenties."
"Right. It wouldn't made sense but the girl who was fourtee years old throws everything off. Otherwise it would made sense. If the fourteen year old wasn't there, then the youngest victim would've been seventeen, which goes along with that number seven theory."
"That makes sense," I said, "but seven is a multiple of fourteen. Seven times two is fourteen- which would mean that since tomorrow's the fourteenth, he'll kill another person? But that wouldn't make sense, because he's been killing people in the past six days. The eighth, ninth, tenth, so on until today, the thirteenth. And eight, nine and ten have nothing to do with seven."
"Wow, you're smarter than I knew of." Casey said, amazed. "I would have never thought of that."
We walked some more, in silence. Then I just stopped and gasped. "I got it!"
"What?" he asked, "What is it?"
"Seven victims. Shot, beaten, stabbed bludgeoned, and raped, right?"
"Yeah..." he said, "so...?"
"This killer isn't stupid- obviously he planned out the seven-number thing right? He started on the seventh, so far he killed seven, he killed them by repeating his method seven times..."
"Wait- how do you know if the killer is a he?" Casey asked.
"I'm getting there. You know why tests are even being run, right? Because what's-her-face..was it Alicia or Cassie that was raped?"
"I think it was Samantha-"
"Because Samantha was raped! Why in the world would a killer so smart get caught because he stupidly raped a girl? And he raped her seven times, so obviously he planned it out! It's a male, too, obviously. So this killer knew the tests were going to be run. He's playing a game. He's leaving clues because he's playing a game. It's battle between him- and Santa Martina, the police, the people! He raped her because he knew the tests were going to be run! He knew they'd find out his identity-but he's obviously very confident he won't be caught! It's simple! He wants revenge, he wants to prove to somebody that he's the better, faster, smarter, sneakier person. And the person who he's against isn't dead yet, either, otherwise why would he continue killing people? Get it? It's the killer- the killer against someone else. But who is that someone else?"
Casey was so silent for a minute, I thought he would just say, 'Wow, you're a freak, bye.' and walk off, but instead he said, "Incredible."
"What?"
"You'd be avery good FBI agent." he said, eyeing me.
I blushed, "Not really. It's simple."
"No, for most people it takes notes, information, information, information, information and notes, notes, notes to think of something like that. But you just thought it." he paused-then, "in fact, I think you've figured out more than the police and investigators know right now."
"Really? Well, thanks, I was just.. You know.." I stuttered.
And then Casey said, "This is getting interesting. Sammy, I think you've found yourself stuck in another mess..."
"Oops... Sorry.." I muttered.
"But-" he said, "This time can I also be stuck and come along?"
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