Source: Misty Morning Journal
Author: Isaac Forester
Danielle Hertz, age 7, was found murdered yesterday. A Mrs. Gonda, social worker from the Department of Children and Families (DCF) found the body after a responding to a report filed by the child's foster parents, Amelia and Jack Hertz, reported her as having run away. This wasn't the first time this complaint had been filed from foster parents dealing with Danielle, but this time it was something much more serious.
After a week of dealing with the parents, friends, and neighbors, the Mrs. Gonda was without any clue as to where Danielle would be; if she had indeed run away. According to Mrs. Gonda she had suspicions something was amiss; "the parents were overly jumpy as opposed to worried, and the school reports showed Danielle missing for two days prior to the call to DCF about her running away" (a typical call occurs within 24 hours).
It wasn't until the social worker came across a strange doll hidden in the corner of Danielle's wardrobe "wrapped all in ribbons of all sorts of colors, covering every part of it" that the search came to an end. "I didn't know it at first glance, but I smelt this funny smell, like strong bleach or something like it," said Mrs. Gonda "Mr. and Mrs. Hertz were in the other room at the time, so I pretended nothing happened, then I called the cops."
At 7:15 PM the cops searched the house and found the "doll." Wrapped in hundreds of yards of tightly wound strips of colored ribbon was little Danielle Hertz. According to the autopsy she had been fed a steady stream of insoluble packing corns, and then stuffed with more after she had suffocated; then Mr. and Mrs. Hertz performed some amateur taxidermy before wrapping her up in ribbon.
As of this moment, the police still have not discerned any motive, but have ample evidence to support their case against Mr. and Mrs. Hertz.
Author: Isaac Forester
Danielle Hertz, age 7, was found murdered yesterday. A Mrs. Gonda, social worker from the Department of Children and Families (DCF) found the body after a responding to a report filed by the child's foster parents, Amelia and Jack Hertz, reported her as having run away. This wasn't the first time this complaint had been filed from foster parents dealing with Danielle, but this time it was something much more serious.
After a week of dealing with the parents, friends, and neighbors, the Mrs. Gonda was without any clue as to where Danielle would be; if she had indeed run away. According to Mrs. Gonda she had suspicions something was amiss; "the parents were overly jumpy as opposed to worried, and the school reports showed Danielle missing for two days prior to the call to DCF about her running away" (a typical call occurs within 24 hours).
It wasn't until the social worker came across a strange doll hidden in the corner of Danielle's wardrobe "wrapped all in ribbons of all sorts of colors, covering every part of it" that the search came to an end. "I didn't know it at first glance, but I smelt this funny smell, like strong bleach or something like it," said Mrs. Gonda "Mr. and Mrs. Hertz were in the other room at the time, so I pretended nothing happened, then I called the cops."
At 7:15 PM the cops searched the house and found the "doll." Wrapped in hundreds of yards of tightly wound strips of colored ribbon was little Danielle Hertz. According to the autopsy she had been fed a steady stream of insoluble packing corns, and then stuffed with more after she had suffocated; then Mr. and Mrs. Hertz performed some amateur taxidermy before wrapping her up in ribbon.
As of this moment, the police still have not discerned any motive, but have ample evidence to support their case against Mr. and Mrs. Hertz.