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It was early in the morning now and Tim was in my mind. I had driven straight back after pushing Tim. When he was falling he looked a little bit like Hans Gruber from the die-hard film. The part where he was tossed off the roof of a skyscraper. That film will never be the same for me again. Forevermore it will bring back the face of a sad man I met on a bench who plummeted to his death.
My drive home was excellent no traffic at all to speak of and I made good time. Louise was obviously not expecting me home because I had told her not to. When I unlocked the door to my house my eyes nearly popped out. Louise was having a one-woman party. She was playing my tapes in the hi-fi and dancing around in one of my shirts with a glimpse of her knickers every now and again when she moved. The song that was playing was psycho killer by talking heads it amused me that it was kind I appropriate apart from the psych part.
“Hi morning Loubuy Lou.”
I kept back by now I had
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27Apparently, my conversation with Louise hadn’t gone too well she hasn’t spoken to me for two days. Today is the day have to work. I have to make a move towards management or find somewhere new. Somewhere with prospects.I was doing a job that bored the shit out of me called beaming off. In weaving, there is a weft and a warp. The warp is the yarn that goes horizontally and the weft goes from left to right. Or as the weaver’s joke, it goes from weft to wight. Beaming off is taking the warp off one machine and taking it to the loom. Once it is set up you just wait for it to finish. As I was doing this I watched a warper called John working on his machine. I dreamed of him getting his hand caught under the yarn. It lifting him off his feet and spinning around the balloon. That’s a big barrel that the warp goes around at high speed. He was ripped around and around at high speed slamming into the machine ripping him limb from limb. Blood sprayed e
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28Louise had only been gone for about five minutes but the screaming baby made it feel like a lot longer. As soon as she walked in he saw her and stopped. The relief was bliss. I handed him over to Lou and took the pack of beer and the bag of booze from her.“The second you left he started to cry. You walk back in and he stopped I don’t get it.”“No, neither do I he has never done that with anyone bbefore.”Did this boy know what I was doing and didn’t feel safe around me? Is it possible that he could sense the bad things I have done? I’m being stupid he can’t know or understand he isn’t even a year old yet.Lou put Adam to bed and I picked some music and poured her vodka and coke. I thought I would play it safe and put on a completion album. My music selection is a wide and varied range from the doors to the Beatles to Metallica to Dolly Parton to iron maiden to Phill Collins I. It
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29Am I trying to get caught or just fuck up other peoples lives? I managed to sneak out of the bedroom get dressed and leave the house without disturbing or speaking to anyone. I walked to the shop and picked up a packet of fags and paper then went to the cafe. I had the paper laid out on the table when Jill the cafe owner came over for my order.“All right Harry what you having?”“All right. I’ll have a large full English please.”“What drink you having with that?”“Coffee. Please.”She left and went behind the counter. I heard her talking to one of the girls making food.“Can you serve that prick when I have cooked it? I can’t stand him he freaks me out and he’s an arse hole.”It didn’t upset me to hear this but it gave me an insight into what people were thinking. Better than guessing and getting it wrong. The girl that Jill was talking to b
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30My coat was on car keys in hand and shoes on. Louise was going to come back if she wanted to. Which I wanted her to do. With her by my side, I could keep them safe. I was in my crappie little read car and moving driving up and down streets searching for them. They couldn’t have gone far I had only been gone. I checked my watch it read ten forty. So that meant they could have an hours head start on me. To my advantage, they were on foot and had nowhere to go. They could have caught a bus she probably had enough money to get to town but. But nothing that’s what she has most likely done. I abandoned the side streets and went looking for busses. If she had caught a bus then she could already be in town. I went straight down the road of the nearest bus route and raced as fast as my car could handle watching for police speed traps.I had unfortunately made it to the bus station without seeing a bus. The one time I wanted to see a bus on the road and didn’t. I parked up
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31After three interviews I had two job offers. Turns out knocking on doors and bending the truth slightly can get you a job. Not only that obviously I had to prove myself. In each mill I was asked my opinion and being me I gave it to them straight. They seemed to be impressed that I didn’t kiss ass and pointed out places that could be more efficient. Now I had a decision to make. Bank bottom was bigger and paid more. West Yorkshire weavers was a small outfit that had an easier job. It paid less but gave me more time and less stress. Knowing how I handled stress I was leaning toward that option. The thing was I needed to be challenged or I would get lazy.Louise had made me think I need a get out plan. I’m nnot stupid at some point the police will start to put two and two together. At no point have I ever thought that I was perfect. I have probably left fingerprints at each murder. There are more than likely hair samples. Until I am caught though those things are useless
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32Everything was going great. New life booked and paid for in advance. At the time I thought it was expensive but after they told me what was included I realise that it’s a bargain. Not only will I get a new birth certificate driving licence and passport but when I need to disappear the hide me until everything is in place. Once I am out of sight they buy my house, not for the full amount that it is worth but close enough so I have a good wedge of cash in a new bank account that coincided with my new I.D. Yes, it was a lot to pay out and not get anything for until the time it was needed other than a name and phone number but you wouldn’t drive a car without insurance and that’s how I looked at this. This was more than life insurance. It was life and freedom insurance. This was an investment in my future.Louise had been gone for a fortnight now. My life was getting back to normal but I still thought of them two daily. She was one of the few people who had shown me any k
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33This is where things were going to go wrong. At the same time, I could not let it drop. This man had messed with the wrong girl this time and Adam is just a baby. The street lights were on and my temper was up.“Lou listen to me. Where is Adam? We have to act fast.”“He lives just around the corner. Go down here and turn right. What are you going to do Harry?”Her voice was shaking as she spoke and a single tear rolled down her cheek. She must be shitting her pants right now and I’m not surprised in the slightest.“Get me to the house where Adam is and it will all be ok.”“Ok. Slow down it’s that house there.”Louise pointed down the road at a mid-terraced house. The curtains were closed but light shone through dully. I pulled over badly into a large space. I parked like a prick that I would normally grumble at. I left half a car length in front of me behind a parked car and there was nothing behind me. Switching off the engine I took Lou
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34The house was behind me and getting smaller as I drove away. Adam was now silent again back in his mother’s arms as I drove obeying all the traffic laws to the letter. Getting pulled over now would be just my luck. It would most certainly serve me right for going off half-cocked and no plan. It would be nice to say I’m stressed but that would be an understatement. Seeing Lou with Adam in her arms made it seem like it was worth it. The blood-soaked clothes, on the other hand, I could do without. Driving in jeans that were twice their usual weight and sticky was not pleasant.“Harry thank you. I owe you everything but what have you done?”“Lou I could tell you but I probably shouldn’t.”“Harry I’m scared. What have you done?”“I will tell you but I have to get home before anyone sees me.”“Ok.”I know that I had said I would tell her what I had done but right now I was doing my best to think of a way not to. If I told her then she would be
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105It had been two years since I had read about some mad fucker called Harry. He was all over the newspapers and tv. He had scared the shit out of a town in Yorkshire. Like everything else it died down. He was wanted in connection with at least four murders. I admired how he had just disappeared into thin air. He had made a lot of mistakes though and I didn’t plan on making the same ones.I like people watching. Sitting some here public and watching people go by. Picking out my next victim. I wasn’t going to act on my urges today. It want easy to sit back and watch but it was out of sequence. If I act too fast then people will start to get jumpy. One week just one more short week and then it will be time to act.My last victim had been a child molester. I watched him for a month. He hung around schools and parks. He confirmed my suspicions one day making a move on a kid when her mum wasn’t watching talking to another mum in a park. He di
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104I wasn’t driving but being driven. Adam sat in the back strapped into a car seat. My driver was meathead, Mike. I had been told he was called Mike now. There was no pretense that this was his real name. He didn’t always respond to it when I called him it. We were on the motorway doing a perfect seventy miles per hour. There was also a car following us. That car also contained one of Nancy’s other sons. It wasn’t explained to me why we were being followed and I was nervous about it.Mike leaned over and turned on the radio.“I like some music while I drive.”A tape started playing heavy metal. Not something I would have chosen but I wasn’t going to complain. Adam started jumping about in his seat.“You like this little man?” said Mike in his usual gravely deep voice.“Yes. Louder.”Mike laughed and turned it up. He looked over to me with a grin. I don’t know if
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103Nancy was kind to me and Adam. She kept us fed we’ll and clothed us. Adam had the grandma he had never had. His every need taken care of. To say she was in the business she was shocked me. I spoke to her in great length about what had been going on for the past eighteen months or so. At no point did she flinch or show any sings of this being abnormal.We had been staying here now for a week. It was starting to feel like home even though I knew it was just short term. She had explained to me that my house was now hers. The story was that she had caught it as an investment property. One of her three sons was living there for now. When I sold the house I had agreed to leave it furnished. Every part of this looked legal on paper. Her son told the police that he had just moved in on the day Wayne was alleging I stabbed him. He was now in a heap of trouble. The police were still looking for me though. I had shaved my head and was working on a beard. The stubble was
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102My excitement so disappeared and changed to trepidation. When we were out of the park I was shown the back of a white windowless van and told to get in. I was paying for this treatment but did as I was asked. It occurred to me that I didn’t know what was going to happen. We’re they just going to kill us. That would be safer and more cost-effective for them.The back of the van was almost pitch black when the doors closed. The only light was what came in through the cracks in the seals. Adam started to fuss in my arms and the van started to move. Adam spoke to me in his limited way.“Daddy. Dark.”“Yes mate. It won’t be for long.”I kept my voice calm and soft. Hoping he would calm down himself. His creepy little baby hands pulled at my nose. Making sure I was there I hoped. He surprised me by saying.“Got nose.”I let out an involuntary laugh.“Haha give it back. H
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101Cleaning up blood is a pain in the arse. If I could get away with not cleaning it up I would. Adam was his usual happy self but he broke my heart. He didn’t know better but he kept asking me the same question over and over.“Daddy. Where Mummy?”He smiled and had a cheeky grin on his face. I tried to explain that she wasn’t coming back but how many two-year-olds can understand that. It’s going to take time but he will learn.I understand how little I know about kids. He is now on solid food, not the mush that comes in jars. I’m happy about that it never looked appealing to me when Lou used to taste a bit then feed him.I have changed three nappies today so far and I’m now thinking about what age do kids get potty trained. There could be months left on this. Oh God I have already survived the first bits of teeth g but will there be more. Maybe I haven’t thought this through at all.All this
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100It dawned on me that I hadn’t worked out how I was going to handle life with Adam on my own. The thought had never come to me that I would have to do e everything with him and for him.I hadn’t told the guys who were setting up our new lives Lou wasn’t going to be coming now. I wonder if I’m too late. It probably won’t matter that much. They will find out when they come for me tomorrow. Being alone means I don’t have a lot of loose ends to tie up. I should let work know I won’t be back in.Adam was still sleeping after our late night. Poor little fella. He won’t understand why mummy isn’t around anymore. He will be ok though he will adapt. His life with me will be good. I don’t think I will kill anyone for a while now. It is too much of a risk and I have too much at stake.There was a loud banging at my back door. Not a knock but an insistent banging. No one used my back door. So who could th
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99When Lou was dead. It didn’t take long and I hope it was an easy passing I wrapped her in plastic. Then rolled her into her grave. Unlike most of my other victims, I didn’t take off hands or remove her teeth. At some point in the future, the police will get an anonymous tip on where to find her. She deserved a proper send-off.Being in the woods at night is an unpleasant experience. Every sound made by send-off or the wind blowing through the trees made me tense. Most people would think that a monster lay in wait or a serial killer was after them. Not me I envision blue lights and sirens.The first few shovels full of dirt landed on the plastic making a disturbing noise. Grit and pebbles rolling on the sheet. Another few and the sound was muffled. Then after it was dirt on dirt.Back in my car Adam was snoozing away. So blissfully unaware of the tragedy that had happened. That is not a conversation I’m in a rush to have. At least he i
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98Reaching across a car with a rag to cover someone’s mouth and nose is hard. It’s made even harder when you feel like shit. My guts were still churning but Lou had cottoned on to my plan. It was inevitable. I just wish I could have trusted her. She could have had a good life and maybe I would have stopped killing.Lou tried to put up a fight but I was too quick and strong for her. Somehow Adam stayed asleep through the brief shuffle. Small victories have to be taken when you can.Now the effects of chloroform don’t last long just a few minutes. So instead of just driving off hopping to get to her grave before she came too again I cable tied her hands and legs together. There was no need for a gag. When she comes round I will have questions for her to answer.We drove in silence on the road for about half a mile then turned right onto a dirt track. The track was muddy and only just wide enough for my car. Branches and bushes scrapped at
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97We had ordered our takeaway and was just finishing eating. I hadn’t told Lou that we were going to move the body tonight yet. If I’m being honest which is unusually for me these days. I not looking forward to telling her. It will come as a shock I think. At the end of the day who wants to dig up a body that has been rotting in the ground for over a year.The more I think about the body the more I think moving it is a bad idea. In fact it is a bad idea. Yes I could have left clues there but I’m going to disappear like smoke in the wind after tomorrow. I’m not going to move him. He can rest in peace for a little while longer.Then another thought hits me. What if Lou has told Wayne about it. If she has then he could have told the police and I could be walking into, a trap. Shit. Have the police been watching my movements? Have they seen me go back to the scene of a crime and I’m oblivious to it? My palms start to swea
