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Cai and Molly Davies
The bedroom was mostly white, an almost empty tiny room with a small bed with grey covers in the middle of the room and a bright white night stand on each side of it with a mirror was attached to the door. It was a stark contrast to the way Mildred dressed earning her the nickname, ‘Goth Mildred’. Her husband Cai Davies was always working and lived in his grey suit and thick eyeglasses. Cai towered over Mildred at 6’ 1” despite being in his 60’s. Mildred was only 5’ 3” and in her late 30’s. She had a slim figure, long black hair kept in pig tails, and a light bronze skin with green eyes. The fragrant of the freshly bloomed blue lilies scattered on the bed was overwhelming in the tiny room.
By Stephy Doe5 years ago in Criminal
Letters To Morgan
Morgan, Hi. My name is Emmanuel Teijeiro. I just heard you got 40 years. This makes no sense to me. Murderers get less time than that and you guys were children that were neither crazy or criminals but programmed telepathically by a cult and I think it might be beneficial for me to offer insight into the missing details. The cult formed in 1984 and comprised of three children all under the age of 10. The name of the cult was Candle Cove, the same name as a creepypasta found on the Reddit forum thread /nosleep where you encountered one of their programs known as Slenderman. The original cult did no work outside of making agreements which were then peripherally received and adopted by rotating writers. In 1992 the cult director now age 16 reformed the cult in Kalamazoo by writing a new script called Slenderman, a nickname members of his family had given him in early childhood which he was not fond of so he demonstrated in this script exactly why. The names of three children were written in this script. Morgan Geyser, Anissa Weier, and the girl you stabbed. In 1992 you didn't exist beyond names written on this page which was read by three people then burned. It was a short script. It said that you would sneak out during a sleepover and stab your best friend nearly to death by instruction of a voice in your head then start walking in the direction of a distant forest under the impression that you would find Slenderman and his house there. The administrators of the Forum thread have no knowledge of the existence of this script or who wrote it and technically he doesn't exist because that person was me and I'm 42 years old now. It's helpful to understand that in 1992 my 16 year old self wasn't thinking very clearly either but we are adults now so if this note even ever reaches your hand in light of the circumstances maybe it will fix the error that occurred here. In my mind I was doing this as a psychic attack on the tobacco industry. In the eighties the term Slenderman was street slang in reference to a cigarette and also carried a host of other senses including a facilitator of underage smoking, an advertiser, male genitalia, and a demon that lures children into the forest and turns them against each other who could be summoned by a witch also referenced by this term. The way I figured it since we were minors we would all get away with this and the peripheral shock would reach the heart of its true target whoever that was at that time, I can't tell you now because honestly I don't remember, it was 26 years ago. I just don't feel you should be accountable for some cryptic shit I did when I was 16 and for the record I have no connection to any of the creepypasta people or /nosleep thread users. I'm just a dude that was really pissed off when Nickelodeon bought out Pinwheel and turned my perfect children's programming haven into a goddamn advertising circus for Hasbro toys because I was fully aware even back then that advertising human trafficking tobacco and homicide are all the same animal that kind of looks like this to a child:
By Adrian Maples5 years ago in Criminal
Four-Year-Old Amy Emily Annamunthodo R-ped, S-domized, M-rdered. Content Warning.
Summary: Four-year-old Emily, as she was called by her family, was raped, sodomized, and murdered by her mother’s boyfriend, Marlo, after suffering abuse and torture from him and her mother, Anita. Despite Anita abandoning Emily at a hospital for a year, a court gave her custody back of the girl. Social workers and hospital staff ignored the bruises and other signs of abuse, as did her own father. Anita and Marlon were arrested. When the cop failed to show for court, all charges against Anita were dropped. Marlon was sentenced to death.
By Criminal Matters5 years ago in Criminal
Lifetime Trial Part 3
The Penalty Phase If we thought that the guilt phase and all of the horrors that were laid out before us were traumatic, the penalty phase made them look like a “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie as opposed to the “Human Centipede” that was to come. Many of the witnesses were the same (from the prosecution). The true contrast came when pictures of the black garbage bags that contained the bodies of the children were brought in front of us to view. The descriptions of the scene at the recovery of the bodies only served to add to the repulsiveness of the treatment of the children. A pathologist gave us the results of the autopsies, which were completed with as much accuracy as one could expect from week-to-ten-day-old bodies that had sat in black garbage bags in the Alabama heat for several days. Even more impactful, however, was a taped telephone conversation that the Defendant had with his family a few months after he was taken into custody to await his trial. In it, he stated that the blame for what happened lay with the children’s mother, that his son was just trying to get to her and that is why the crime happened. He took no responsibility for what he had done.
By Jeremy Scott Mason5 years ago in Criminal
They Who Chase the Thief
The thief could not recall how long they had chased him. Pale phantasms stalked his every step, clawing and relentless. Weariness was unknown to them, a failing of mortal men, faults in the flesh and the mind. Inured to qualms and weakness, they pressed on implacable in their grim venery.
By Rhys Barnard Jones5 years ago in Criminal
Mourning Marital Mistakes
Tanya and Walter Pride were young lovers in search of higher learning. Their young love they professed to be eternal so they married. Barely old enough to drink, they were now man and wife. Marriage doesn’t make you instantly more mature; wisdom comes with time, experience and age. Walter was extremely studious leaving him very little time to experience “college life”. There were no keg parties, bonfires, pep rallies or pajama jammy jams for this young man. He was focused on becoming an engineer and great provider for his young family. Walter looked forward to having many children with Tanya his love and for them all to live together happily ever after.
By Cam Rascoe5 years ago in Criminal
Lifetime Trial Part 1
“A child should feel safe in his father’s arms.” Those words haunt me and stand out to me as the beginning of a period of personal trauma and growth. They marked the beginning of a trial that affected my life in the deepest possible way and helped shake and shape the person that I was into the person that I have become.
By Jeremy Scott Mason5 years ago in Criminal
Lifetime Trial Part 2
The Guilt Phase Opening statements had impact, especially for the prosecution. The line about being safe in a father’s arms was the opening line of the prosecution’s opening statement. It was especially impactful to me, as I am a father of four children (all girls between the ages of six and twenty as the trial was beginning). I have a strong belief that fatherhood is a role of discipline, strength and protection. Being a father meant that my children were always safest when with me.
By Jeremy Scott Mason5 years ago in Criminal
