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PROLOGUE

 

MOUNTAIN DAILY

May 24

Another dead body of a young woman, who was reported missing three weeks ago, has been found next to the Highway, her head tightly wrapped in a plastic bag. This is the sixth body in as many months. All of the dead young women had been tortured over a period of time, raped viciously and killed by suffocation.

A police spokes-person said at a press conference that numerous leads are being followed.

For how long are young women going to be terrorised ……….

PIONEER NEWS

June 8

A distressed local family fear the worst. Their daughter, who came for a visit to spend a weekend with them, has gone missing.

Still no arrests in the case of one of the most horrendous crime waves in our state.

Police keep mum on possible clues ……..

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The room is dark and dank. A young woman is lying in a corner on top of a filthy mattress, her hands tightly bound and her legs are spread-eagled, tied by ropes from her ankles to iron rings bolted to the cement floor.

Her breathing is shallow and she appears to be semi-conscious. Her face is a swollen mess, black, blue and bloody. Her nude body is battered, her breasts mutilated and the inside of her thighs are crusted with dried blood.

The door opens with a screech and the silhouette of a big man is outlined against the dim light.

“Hi honey, I am home” he croons.  The voice sends a tremble through her body as she tries unsuccessful to move even further into the corner, whimpering.

“Look who is happy to see you” he says, opening his pants to release his erect cock and waves it in front of her face.

The woman looks at him with dead eyes, there is no shred of emotion left in them anymore.

“Missed us?” Running his tongue over his lips he bends down and roughly pulls her legs even further apart. “You women are all the same” he snarls “leading me on, teasing, teasing and  then rejecting me. But not anymore. I’ll show you again what a real man can do, I’ll show you as I’ve shown all the others before you”.

His breath comes in ragged bursts, spittle flying from his mouth. “Look what you do to me”, he leers at her while stroking himself to get even harder.

Her mouth opens in a soundless scream as he gets between her legs and pushed himself into her with all his strength.

Good! Good! Fuck the whore, ram her, kill the slut with it! Show her, show them all. Yeah that’s it, I can feel her inside tearing apart, the warm wetness of her blood on my cock, more, more, he rams and pounds until he can feel himself spurting all his rage into her.

He rolls of her motionless body, gets up and kicks her between the legs, she does not even flinch anymore.

“Guess it’s over between us, honey” he giggles, takes a plastic bag and pulls it tightly over her head.

Sitting in front of her he watches with amusement as she gasps for air, her ravaged body still fighting and trying to hang on to whatever is left of her pitiful existence.

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PIONEER NEWS

June 30

The body of the young woman who was reported missing at the beginning of June has been found.

She is presumed to be another victim of the “Savage Ghost” as the perpetrator has been dubbed, pointing to his seeming invisibility when abducting and discarding his savagely abused victims …..

MOUNTAIN DAILY

July 20

Police confirmed to have arrested and charged a suspect in the “Savage Ghost” case with the rape and murder of seven young women……

OREGON TRIBUNE

Sentence handed down in the case of the “Savage Ghost”

After a sensational trial that had gripped not only our State but the whole nation, Chase Cotter, a 39 year old semi-employed farmhand and sometimes  lumberjack, has been found guilty and sentenced to a prison sentence of thirty years to life for each of his victims, whom he raped, tortured and killed during his crime spree lasting eight month, adding up to 210 years before he would be eligible for parole.

The prosecution, described Cotter as a psychopath without a conscience and as someone who showed no penitence, subjecting young women to unimaginable sexual torture and abuse for days and sometimes weeks before killing them by suffocation, was asking for the death penalty to be imposed.

The lawyer for the defence countered with a request for leniency, reminding the court that Cotter had been rejected at a very young age by his mother, fomenting a hate against all women and was brought up in a string of abusive foster homes with no opportunity to learn social skills or respect for people, in particular for women.

The Judge took this plea for mercy into account when sentencing and pronounced in closing:

 “Although Mr Cotter’s upbringing was not conducive for him to lead a normal and productive life, he cannot be absolved by any means from taking responsibility for having committed the most brutal and savage crimes against innocent women.

I therefore sentence Mr Cotter to thirty years to life for each of his victims, sentence to be served at a maximum security facility”.

The horrific details that emerged during the trial had even hardened crime investigators breaking down during their testimony of what had been done to the victims.

Cotter expressed no remorse throughout the trial and showed no emotion as the judge pronounced the sentence.

Chase Cotter will be transported to a high security facility and held there in solitary confinement, as his safety can’t be guaranteed within the general prison population.

 

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