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Chapter 2

 

Curious Journalists Approach Nancy And Question Her About Diane D

 

 

One afternoon, Nancy and her boyfriend Evan, a young handsome Hispanic male, are coming out of a courtroom in White Plains, New York.  They step into the hallway as Evan turns to Nancy and says, “Hey Nancy, which way is the office you’re supposed to meet up with your family?”

“I think it’s the office that way,” Nancy says as she points to her left.  “Come on.”  Nancy and Evan turn to their left and walk down a large hallway. 

Three curious journalists, a white male around his mid-40’s with short light brown hair who has a microphone, a taller stocky black male around his late-40’s who’s bald and wearing a trench coat who also has a microphone, a white female around her mid-40’s with dark shoulder length hair also with a microphone and a white male camera person pointing a camera, rush towards Nancy as the journalists shout to her, “Hey Nancy!  Miss Nancy!” 

Nancy and Evan stop and turn around.  They see the journalists and camera man rushing towards them.

The journalists and the camera man approach Nancy and Evan as the white male journalist shouts, “Hi Nancy!  How are you?!”  Nancy and Evan puzzled look at the journalist.  The white male journalist then says, “How you doing Nancy?”

“Okay,” Nancy puzzled says.

“Okay?  Good!  So Nancy, can we ask you a few questions, if you have the time?”

“A few questions?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, what is it?”

“How is your cousin Diane D doing?”

“How’s Diane doing?”

“Yeah!”

“She’s okay.”

“She is?  That’s good!  How is she coping with being locked up inside the mental hospital or mental institution?  How is it like for her there?  How is she handling it?”

“She’s handling it okay I guess.”

“She is?  That’s good.  How does she feel being locked up inside there?”

“Well, she feels that she’s being locked up and punished for something she doesn’t remember doing.”

“What!” the black male journalist shouts.  “Feels locked up and punished for something she doesn’t remember doing?!  She still don’t remember what she did last year?!”

“No she doesn’t.”

“She still doesn’t believe she killed anybody?!”

“No she still doesn’t believe it.  She claims all she knows, is that she was about to be hypnotized inside that hypnosis room last year.  The next thing she knows, is that she wakes back up in tremendous pain, didn’t know why she was in pain and didn’t know where the hell the pain came from!  The next thing she knows, is that she’s laying in the hospital still in pain and discovers sores, wounds and bruises all on her body.  She wondered if she was in a car wreck or something or did she get ran over by some vehicle.”

“What!  She wondered if she was in a car wreck and wandered if she got ran over by a vehicle?!  She didn’t know that she killed six people?!”

“No she did not know.  She wasn’t told that until days later.”

“What!” the white female journalist shouts.  “Diane D wasn’t told that she killed six people until days later?!  My goodness!  How did she feel when she heard about that?!  How did she feel when she heard that she killed six people?!”

“She was shocked when she heard that, she couldn’t believe it!”

“She couldn’t?!”

“No!  She felt real bad when she heard about that because she says she’s not a killer and does not go around killing people!”

“That’s what she said?”

“Yeah.  The next thing she knows, is that she’s locked up inside the mental institution again and to this day, she still doesn’t know why she’s locked up in there.”

“She still doesn’t know why she’s locked up in a mental institution?!” the black male journalist shouts.

“No she doesn’t!  She feels she’s innocent!”

“She feels she’s innocent?”

“Yes she does.”

“Wow, that is so sad!”

“It is,” the white male journalist says.  “I feel for Diane D Nancy!  I really do!  I know she’s sorry she ever agreed to allow herself to be hypnotized because look where she’s at now!  How is she being treated in the mental institution?”

“She’s being treated very well there.”

“She is?”

“Yeah.  The doctors, nurses, hospital staff members and my family members are always around her taking great care of her.”

“They are?”

“Yes they are.”

“That’s good.”

“How does the mental hospital or mental institution look like on the outside Nancy?” the black male journalist asks. 

“It’s a very beautiful place,” Nancy says.

“It is?”

“Yeah.  It sort of looks like a palace on the outside.”

“A palace?”

“Yeah.”

“How does it look on the inside?”

“The inside looks like a palace too.”

“It does?”

“Yeah.  It’s not bad at all.”

“It’s not?”

“No.”

“Wow.  So what I get, is that Diane D is locked up inside a place that looks like a palace on the inside and outside, has doctors, nurses, hospital staff members and her family members always around her on hand and foot taking good care of her.  It sounds to me like Diane D went from slaughtering several people, to living life like a princess!  Anyway, we hear that Diane D gets a chance to come out of the mental institution temporarily.  We hear that she gets house arrest at times, is that true?”

“Yes it’s true.”

“It is?!  You mean she not only lives like a princess, but gets to come out of the palace too after taking innocent people’s lives?!”

“She does not stay in any palace Sir!”

“You just said that the place your cousin Diane D stays in looks like a palace on the inside and outside!  As far as I’m concerned, that’s a palace!”

“But when she gets house arrest, she is not able to leave the house!”

“But she still gets to go home to her family temporarily!  The people’s lives she took are not able to do that!”

“I understand that, but what do you want me to do?  I can’t bring those people back!”

“Nancy,” the white male journalist says.  “We hear that your grandmother Miss Margarita has your cousin Diane D watched at all times at the mental institution and at home when Diane D is on house arrest to keep your cousin Diane D from secretly meditating to prevent her other personality from coming out to the surface again, which caused all that havoc last year and wind up slaughtering six people and seriously injuring more than twenty others!  Even though it’s a year later, more victims of Diane D’s other personality’s wrath still might die!  A couple of them are brain dead and might have to be taken off life support!  So is it true?!  Is it true that your grandmother Miss Margarita has your cousin Diane D watched at all times to keep your cousin Diane D from secretly meditating to prevent her vicious and dangerous other personality from coming out to the surface again?”

“Yeah it’s true.”

“It is?!  We hear that your grandmother Miss Margarita has Diane D watched even while Diane D is in the bathroom like when she’s taking a shower!  Is that true?”

“Yeah.”

“Wow!  So that means that Diane D is being seen completely naked without any clothes on at all?”

“Yeah, and what’s your point Mister?” 

“What we would like to know is, does Diane D still have any bruises left on her body after that ordeal she, or should I say ‘her OTHER personality’ went through, like breaking loose from those chains she was strapped in while she was hypnotized?  Because a few people have said, that they can see slight bruises around Diane D’s arms and wrists.  A few nurses at the mental hospital said, that they can see slight bruises around Diane D’s lower legs and ankles.  So that means Diane D does have some leftover bruises on her body, right?”

“It is not my place to tell my cousin’s private business.  All I will tell you, is that her bruises has healed.”

“Her bruises has healed?”

“Yes they have.”

“You mean she doesn’t have any bruises left on her body at all.”

“Just slight bruises.”

“Slight bruises that the nurses can see, right?”

“Yes.”

“Wow!  Is she still in pain from those slight bruises?”

“No she’s not in pain anymore.”

“She’s not?”

“No.”

“Oh that’s nice!  Good for her!  I’m glad she’s not in pain anymore!  We hear that all the females in your family take turns to watch Diane D while she’s in the bathroom or taking a shower, is that true?”

“Yes all the females, except for Charlotte.”

“All the females except for Charlotte?  Why not Charlotte?”

“Because Charlotte is afraid that other personality might come into Diane again while she’s alone inside the bathroom with her, and she doesn’t want to take any chance of meeting or encountering that other personality, like me and my grandma did.”

“Really?!” the black male journalist shouts.  “Charlotte doesn’t want to take the chance of meeting or encountering that other personality like you and your grandma did?!  Wow, that is heavy!  So Charlotte refuses to be alone inside the bathroom with Diane D?”

“Yeah.”

“Then how come you and the rest of the females in your family aren’t afraid to be alone inside the bathroom with Diane D?”

“It’s not that I and the rest of the females in my family aren’t afraid to be alone inside the bathroom with Diane, but someone has to be in there to watch her to make sure she does not sneak to meditate while she’s in there.”

“I see.  Do you and the rest of the females in your family look at Diane D the whole entire time while Diane D is in the bathroom, especially while she’s behind the shower curtain taking a shower?”

“Yes.  That’s the p0int of us being inside the bathroom with her in the first place, is to look at her the whole entire time while she’s in there, especially while she’s behind the shower curtain.”

“Doesn’t the shower curtain be closed?”

“Only halfway.”

“Just halfway?”

“Yeah.”

“So you can be able to see Diane D, right?”

“Exactly.”

“Do you really have to look at Diane D the whole entire time while she is in the bathroom and shower?”

“Yes, that’s the way my Grandma has it, is for us to watch Diane the whole entire time while Diane is in the bathroom and shower to make sure she does not sneak to meditate.”

“So you don’t take your eyes off Diane D at all?”

“No.”

“Not even to read a book or be on your smartphone or anything?”

“Nope.  My grandma doesn’t allow us to bring any items or gadgets into the bathroom while we’re inside there with Diane.”

“She doesn’t?”

“No.  She said our eyes is to just focus on Diane and nothing else.”

“My God, I couldn’t handle that!  I couldn’t handle anybody constantly inside the bathroom with me watching me while I’m in there looking at what I’m doing, watching every move I make!  I don’t know how in the world Diane D even handles that!  It would freak me out, that’s for sure!  What if Diane D all of a sudden, has to get up during the middle of the night and use the bathroom?  Does someone else in the family get up during the middle of the night and go into the bathroom with her?”

“Yeah, my grandma usually gets up during the middle of the night and goes into the bathroom with her.”

“Your grandma?!  Really?!”

“Yeah.”

“Isn’t your grandma Miss Margarita afraid, that she might encounter Diane D’s other personality again like she did before inside the hospital bathroom last year?  Because if it happened once before, it can happen again!  Isn’t your grandma afraid?”

“Yeah we’re all afraid!  But it’s something my family just has to deal with!  But as far as anybody in my family knows, none of us has had any encounters with Diane’s other personality since my grandma did inside that hospital bathroom last year.”

“None of you did?”

“No none of us, as far as any of us knows.”

“Oh, okay!  That’s good!  That’s good to hear!  I guess it means that Diane D’s other personality probably kept away and stayed at bay!  I guess having Diane D watched at all times to keep her from secretly meditating worked after all!”

“I guess it did.”

“How does Diane D feel about being watched and looked at the whole entire time while she’s in the bathroom or behind the shower curtain taking a shower?” the white female journalist asks.  “Doesn’t she feel that her privacy is being invaded or taken away?!”

“I don’t know what she feels or what she thinks Miss.  She doesn’t really talk about it.”

“She doesn’t?”

“No.”

“Not at all?”

“No.  She just seems to suck it up and do what she has to do.”

“Really!  And you or another female in your family would just watch her while she’s in the bathroom or shower and not take your eyes off her at all?”

“Correct.  That’s the way my Grandma wants it.”

“Yeah that might be the way YOUR GRANDMA wants it Nancy!  But what about what Diane D wants?!  What about how she feels?!  Doesn’t she feel uncomfortable with you or anybody else in your family watching her and staring at her while she’s in the bathroom?!  It sounds like your grandma Miss Margarita is really punishing Diane D for secretly meditating, because having Diane D be watched at all times even while she’s in the bathroom isn’t right!  It’s an invasion of privacy and it's just not right at all!”

“That’s easy for YOU to say Ma’am!  It wasn’t YOUR granddaughter or someone in YOUR family who killed six people last year and injured tons of others!  My grandma had witnessed what happened inside that hypnosis room!  She witnessed the whole entire thing, she was there!  She saw all the horror and bloodshed that happened inside that hypnosis room, so did several of my other family members who were inside the room!  It wasn’t like they were inside the room watching a movie or something, they saw horror and death happening right before their eyes!  They saw and witness police officers being shot!  They saw people’s heads being bashed in getting split wide open!  They saw people being knocked out cold!  A lot of the police officers and swat team members got injured real bad!  My family saw injured police officers and swat team members laying helpless on the floor!  It was like a war zone in there!  My family couldn’t believe the power and superhuman strength Diane’s other personality had when her other personality lifted that heavy psychiatrist couch right up off the floor, held it high up in the air then started spinning it around and around, then tossed it twenty or thirty feet right across the room like it was nothing, then wound up hitting other police officers and swat team members who were about to enter that hypnosis room!  A couple of police officers wound up being brain dead!”

“Brain dead?!” the black male journalist shouts.

“Yes!  Their families might have to take them off life support, then have their organs donated!”

“Have their organs donated?!  My God!  Diane D, or should I say ‘her other personality’ did that much damage to them?!”

“Well if a heavy flying object came flying and speeding at your head at fifty or sixty miles an hour, you think you’ll come out of that situation not dead or not seriously injured?!  I don’t think so!  My grandma and other family members who were in that room almost got hurt themselves when Diane’s other personality threw that psychiatrist couch right above their heads practically skinning their heads!  If they hadn’t duck in time, that psychiatrist couch would have slammed right into THEIR heads instead and they would have been the ones killed or seriously injured!  They would have been the ones laying on that floor.  My grandma and my other family members are never gonna forget what they saw and witnessed inside that hypnosis room!  It’s a year later and they’re all still traumatized by it!  As a matter of fact, they practically get nightmares from what they saw and witnessed inside that hypnosis room!”

“They get nightmares from it?!”

“Yes they do!  They wake up in cold sweats!”

“They do?!”

“Yes they do!”

“Oh God.  Do they get nightmares about it all the time?!”

“Not really.  Just every so often.”

“Every so often?  What do they actually see in their nightmares?”

“The same thing they saw and witnessed inside that hypnosis room, Diane’s other personality attacking all those authority figures and priest with that flying psychiatrist couch!  They feel like they’re living that same horror all over again!  If my cousin Charlotte and I had not decide to leave that hypnosis room and would have stayed in there with my grandma and the rest of our family members, she and I would have definitely witnessed what happened inside that room and we would have been traumatized and get nightmares about it too!  Thank God she and I left that hypnosis room!  After all that slaughter and bloodshed my grandma and my other family members saw and witnessed inside that hypnosis room, now they’re sorry they ever stayed inside that hypnosis room and wish they had left that hypnosis room right along with me and Charlotte!  And they’re sorry they ever agreed to let Diane be hypnotized because now their lives are changed forever!  They have to live with the horror of seeing and witnessing their own family member committing those gruesome killings and now have to see psychiatrists themselves from what they all saw and went through!”

“They all have to see psychiatrists?” the white male journalist asks. 

“Yes they do!  My grandma and my grandpa were at the psychiatrist’s office today!  They had appointments themselves!”

“They did?”

“Yes they did!  My Aunt Mary and my Uncle Barry who are Diane’s mom and dad were at the psychiatrist’s office yesterday!”

“They were?”

“Yes!”

“Wow!  I can imagine what your Aunt Mary and Uncle Barry are going through right now!  After all, Diane D IS their daughter!”

“Yes she is their daughter and they are going through a lot right now!  My dad went to see the psychiatrist two days ago!”

“Your dad too?”

“Yes!”

“And your dad is Diane D’s Uncle Tonio, who was inside that hypnosis room too.”

“Yes he was!”

“Oh God.”

“Diane’s brother Nicolas went to see the psychiatrist last week, so did her husband Michael.”

“Her husband and brother too?!”

“Yeah!  They were inside that hypnosis room too, they saw everything, so did my aunt Marilyn.”

“Your aunt Marilyn was inside that hypnosis room too, right?” 

“Yes she was!  She went to see a psychiatrist a few days ago!”

“She did?”

“Yes she did!  I have to see a psychiatrist myself from the encounter and experience I had with meeting Diane’s other personality inside my family’s house that night!”

“You too?!” the black male journalist asks.

“Yes me too!  Now I’m sorry I ever told my family about the encounter I had with Diane’s other personality that night because look where it’s gotten us!  We all have to see psychiatrists now!  Our whole lives has changed forever!  That encounter and experience I had with meeting Diane’s other personality inside my family’s house that night is one experience I will never forget!  It is going to stay with me and haunt me for the rest of my life!  That horror and bloodshed my family members had to witness inside that hypnosis room is one experience THEY will never forget!  It is going to stay with THEM and haunt THEM for the rest of THEIR lives!  Now you see why my family and I have to constantly stay in therapy?”

“Wow Nancy!” the white male journalist shouts.  “I’m sorry that you and your family members are going through this!  And I’m sorry that your family members had to witness the horror, slaughter and bloodshed that happened inside that hypnosis room, especially by someone in their own family!  There was no way your family members who were inside that hypnosis room could have stopped Diane D’s other personality from doing all that slaughter and bloodshed?!”

“No, there was no way for any of them to even get close to Diane’s physical body!”

“Oh no!” everyone else shouts.

“If any of them even dared to get close to Diane’s physical body to stop her other personality’s wrath, they would have been seriously whipped by those broken chains that were attached to her physical body, that were spinning around with her physical body!”

“Oh no!”

“Diane’s physical body was even whipped by those broken chains that were spinning around with her physical body, and she didn’t even feel it!”

“Oh no!”

“My family said she just kept spinning her physical body around and around while she was spinning that psychiatrist couch high in the air before she threw and toss it across the room at those police officers!”

“My God!  This is so unbelievable!  Is Diane D sorry for what she did to all those authority figures and their families?”

“How can she be sorry for what she did to them if she doesn’t remember doing that to them?”

“Wow.”

“All I can say is, she’s sorry for what happened to them.”

“She’s sorry for what happened to them?”

“Yeah, but she’s not sorry she did that to them because she still doesn’t remember doing that.”

“Are you sure Diane D still doesn’t remember any of that at all?!  She still doesn’t remember what happened?!”

“No she still doesn’t remember any of it!”

“My goodness!  What about the encounter you had with her other personality inside your family’s home that night?  Diane D still doesn’t remember that either?”

“No she still doesn’t remember that.”

“Good Lord!  Does Diane D remember ANY of her other violent outbursts that she did in the past?”

“Yeah she remembers some of them.”

“She remembers some of them?”

“Yeah.”

“Why doesn’t she remember ALL of them?  Was it her OTHER personality who was actually doing some of the other violent outbursts she did in the past, that’s why her ORIGINAL personality doesn’t remember all of them?”

“I don’t know.  It could be.”

“It could be?  Wow!”

“What about the time Diane D drove in her car, then sped all the way across town to beat up a woman name Candis several years ago?” the black male journalist says.  “When that woman Candis went to the authorities to make a complaint and report about Diane D threatening her over the phone telling Candis that she was going to come after her and beat her up in the parking lot behind her apartment building, Diane D denied ever threatening that woman Candis.  She told the police that she never threatened that woman Candis claiming that she doesn’t even know her.  So who’s telling the truth, Diane D or that woman Candis?  Did Diane D ever threaten that woman Candis over the phone telling Candis that she was going to come after her and beat her up in the parking lot behind Candis’ apartment building?”

“I don’t know!  I wasn’t around Diane at the time, if she did threaten that woman.”

“If she did threaten her?!  What do you mean ‘if she did threaten that woman’?  That woman Candis had went downstairs to the lobby of her apartment building, ran into a couple of her neighbors down there and told her neighbors, that Diane D had just threatened her over the phone, telling her that she was going to come after her and beat her up in the parking lot behind her apartment building!  When Candis’ neighbors heard that, they got so worried and scared for her knowing Diane D’s reputation, so they wound up calling the police for her!  When the police arrived to the entrance of that parking lot waiting for Diane D to show up, several minutes later, Diane D’s vehicle shows up speeding right towards that parking lot like a demon!  The police had to hurry and speed their vehicle to block Diane D’s vehicle’s path which caused her to slam on her breaks so hard it made her car tires screech so loud that the whole neighborhood heard it!  After the police arrested Diane D, they searched her vehicle and found a baseball bat right inside her car!  What was she doing with a baseball bat inside her car?!  News about that incident had spread all over town and in the newspapers.  A lot of women in town became afraid of Diane D when they heard about that story!  They couldn’t believe she went that far to go after somebody, they thought she was crazy!  They say they don’t know what would have happened to that woman Candis if the police wasn’t there to block Diane D’s vehicle to stop her in time!  How does Diane D feel about threatening that woman Candis over the phone then getting into her car and speed all the way across town to go after Candis to harm her with the baseball bat?  Was it her ORIGINAL personality who threatened Candis over the phone then actually sped in her car to go after her, or was it her OTHER personality who did that?”

“I don’t know which of her personalities threatened that woman Candis over the phone, but it was her original personality who sped across town.”

“It was Diane D’s original personality who sped across town?!  How do you know it was her ORIGINAL personality who sped across town and not her OTHER personality?”

“Because Diane remembers that part.  She remembers speeding across town.”

“She remembers it?!  She remembers speeding across town to go after that woman Candis?!”

“No, she only remembers speeding across town, she doesn’t remember going after anybody while she was speeding.”

“She doesn’t remember going after anybody while she was speeding?”

“No because she claim she never threatened anybody!”

“Well maybe Diane D did threaten that woman Candis over the phone, but just doesn’t remember it because it was probably her OTHER personality who actually threatened that woman Candis over the phone.”

“Diane told the authorities and my family, that the reason she was speeding all the way across town was not to go after anybody!  She told them that she was speeding across town so she can hurry and meet up with an old friend who was going to meet her inside that parking lot behind that apartment building!”

“Hurry and meet up with an old friend who was going to meet her inside the parking lot behind that apartment building?!”

“Yes!”

“While she had a baseball bat inside her car?!  Does this old friend of hers happen to live in the same apartment building that woman Candis lives in?”

“I don’t know.  I have no idea who this old friend is Diane was going to meet.”

“You don’t know?”

“No.”

“Wow!   Whoever this old friend is, must have been a real important person for Diane D to speed all the way across town and was about to speed right into that parking lot like a demon to meet them!”

“It probably was an important person, because she said speeding across town then was about to speed into that parking lot had nothing to do with that woman Candis.”

“It had nothing to do with Candis?  That’s what she said?”

“That’s what she claim and want to know why that woman Candis would make up a lie like that about her!”

“What!  Make up a lie like that about her?!  That woman Candis told authorities that she’s not lying.  She told authorities that Diane D DID threaten her over the phone!”

“And Diane says she DIDN’T threaten that woman Candis over the phone!”

“Oh!  Okay!  Well since Diane D DOESN’T remember threatening that woman Candis over the phone, but DO remember speeding her car all the way across town to meet up with some old friend inside a parking lot which HAPPENS to be behind Candis’ apartment building, then it could mean one thing.  It means most likely it was Diane D’s OTHER personality who threatened Candis over the phone, and once her OTHER personality threatened Candis, that’s probably when her ORIGINAL personality stepped back in, got inside the car, drove the car then sped all the way across town to meet up with this old friend inside a parking lot which happens to be behind Candis’ apartment building!  So if Candis would have been out there in that parking lot waiting for Diane D, she wouldn’t have met Diane D’s original personality out there, she would have encountered Diane D’s OTHER personality instead and she wouldn’t have even know it!  She’ll just assume that it’s Diane D’s ORIGINAL personality and Diane D’s OTHER personality would have been the one out there in that