Christmas Light Strangler
There is an urban legend about a murderer named as the Christmas Light Strangler and he chokes his victims with Christmas lights and then dumps off the bodies in odd places in the city. This murderer is only active around Christmas time and then totally disappears. People around the city of Newport kept slowly disappearing each year and only around Christmas. It’s said that the Christmas Light Strangler had strangled over 300 women. Police have searched the city for this so-called murderer, but they have found nothing, not a trace of this murderer. He was so good he would clean up any evidence that he left behind, leaving no traces of anything. If the police were going to try and catch this guy, they had to be smarter than he was. In the murder capital of the world, Newport, New Jersey there was news report of string of murders and how people were slowly disappearing one by one and they show up in odd places in the city and they would ligature marks around their night and have died of asphyxia. The news report would go to state about how people were disappearing one by one and only at Christmas and how they would show up in odd places in the city and they were no traces of evidence left behind. The news reporter stated to the world. “Be careful out their folks there a strangler in our midst, and a curfew has been set for the city starting at 10pm and ending 6am, but please stay safe, till the killer is caught.” It was around midnight two hours after curfew and it was Christmas, and the murderer was sneaking through the town in his creepy van searching for his next victim. Across the street at a bar was woman selling herself on the street to a man that had just left the bar and into his car. He refused her and he drove off leaving the woman all alone, the murderer checked to see if the coast was clear before pouncing on his victim. He snuck around the bar the went around the alley and it came the other side where he would sneak of his victim take the Christmas lights wrap it around her neck and strangle her to death. He took the lights grabbed them tightly swung the lights around her neck and the force thrust her backwards into him, she took her hands and tried to pull the lights away from her neck fighting to get them, but the murderer’s grip was too tight. She is coughing and hacking and struggling to breathe, he gripped tighter, you can see the red marks and bruising on her neck; she took one last breathe and she was dead. She was pretty, young thing, only in her thirties, she was tall, and beautiful, long blonde hair, blue eyes, and legs that went on for days. The strangler looked one last time at his victim, he smiled evilly at his work, he grabbed his victim and dragged her to his van and laid her in the back. He drove to his destination he drove to Riverside Park and dumped the body by the river. He laid her down on the ground, he took one last look and headed back to his van looking for his next victim. Now the murderer had liked certain type he looked for, the killer loved tall blonde women with long legs and blue eyes are “ladies of the night”. The Christmas Light Strangler has been around for many years and has remained elusive and has never been caught. He only comes around Christmas time and disappears but only comes to the city of Newport. Police were always baffled and never could understand why they could never find this murderer. He never left any evidence or trace that he’d ever been there which made it hard to catch this killer. How do you outsmart a killer? A killer that’s practically a genius? The police knew at some point the killer would make a mistake and that’s when they’d catch him. It wasn’t long before the next victim had been found, some jogger found her at Riverside Park and reported it to the police. They had gone to the scene of the crime, but no evidence had been found, just the ligature marks around her neck and bruising, it looked piece of her dress was missing and had been ripped off; it didn’t look like the victim had been killed at Riverside Park. The police thought she was killed elsewhere and brought here at park and had been dumped. Later on, the police had gone to the bar where the victim had been killed. There at the scene they found evidence of the victim’s piece of the victim’s red dress, but that wasn’t only piece of evidence, they were blood and piece of torn skin, and the killer left a light bulb. The forensic team was bagging the evidence left behind. The police were happy that finally had break in the Christmas Light Strangler case they been trying to catch this killer for years and now finally the killer got sloppy and made a mistake and this time he’d put away for life. The police and team had left, and coroner took the body back to police station for autopsy. The medical examiner was examining the body, she looked at the ligature marks and bruising and to the contention that her death was strangulation and asphyxia. And under her nails her there was traces of skin and blood it was possibly from her killer. Her dress had been torn but no signs of any sexual assault, she then took the victims fingerprints and entered them into C.OD.I.S. the victim’s name popped Chelsea Martin and she lived right here in Newport. She removed the traces of skin and blood from underneath the victim’s nails and she sent to the lab to be tested the results were positive and they from the killer. Chelsea and fought off her killer. The killer had been Dillan Stevens, he’d lived in Newport all his life, He came from a broken home, his parents divorced, he was abused and went to foster care till he was eighteen and he split and left Newport until he came back here and would go into hiding after his murder spree the last kill marked at three hundred and now, he would be going back into hiding again. This time he’d been caught he just didn’t know it yet. The police sent a BOLO, and picture of what the killer looked like and sent everywhere. About a day later a witness by the name Dexter Milan came forward to the police and told the police he saw some killer murdering a woman and he took the body and placed in some creepy van. The witness gave him the description of the van, it was rusty and brown, with a broken back window, broken taillight with the license plate A-12E-B-12. Dillan was tall with dusty brown, wavy hair, and he long scratch marks down his face. No current residence had been found but the police still did a man hunt. They searched the city high and low, night and day until one day they found Dillan sleeping in an old, abandoned building it used be an old coal factory. The S.W.A.T. team had him surrounded and police arrested him. That day Dillan Stevens was arrested and tried and convicted of murder and placed in prison for life and remains there till this very day where he be sentenced to death by lethal injection.