"When I was 15, I accidentally killed someone in a street fight. My record was sealed & I tried to move on. I became a musician & when I was on my first professional gig, a woman approached me and asked me for an #encore performance, to 'accidentally' kill a bar patron."
***
"Who was she?" I asked.
"She said her name was Grace. I know who and what she is now, but back then she helped me to fit in, to be myself, she gave me a family that understood me. I know she's a #charlatan and not a goddess, but I'm in too deep. I don't have a way out."
***
As Mrs. Marcus talked, I realized that she wasn't trying to #obfuscate the truth. As she said, she knew that she had no way out of her situation. The question I had was why she was being so helpful. Why was she telling us everything instead of just sitting there quietly.
***
"What happened once you joined the cult?" I asked.
"We all had to go through a purification ritual, like a baptism," Mrs. Marcus answered. "There was chanting and water," she added and pulled up her sleeve. "We all got a #unicorn tattoo after that to signify our purity."
***
"How did she recruit new members?" Jaci asked.
Mrs. Marcus sighed. "She knew when people were budding killers or saw something in those with #latent homicidal tendencies, and used it as leverage. Some of us enjoyed what we did, others didn't. They became training aids."
***
***
"Who was she?" I asked.
"She said her name was Grace. I know who and what she is now, but back then she helped me to fit in, to be myself, she gave me a family that understood me. I know she's a #charlatan and not a goddess, but I'm in too deep. I don't have a way out."
***
As Mrs. Marcus talked, I realized that she wasn't trying to #obfuscate the truth. As she said, she knew that she had no way out of her situation. The question I had was why she was being so helpful. Why was she telling us everything instead of just sitting there quietly.
***
"What happened once you joined the cult?" I asked.
"We all had to go through a purification ritual, like a baptism," Mrs. Marcus answered. "There was chanting and water," she added and pulled up her sleeve. "We all got a #unicorn tattoo after that to signify our purity."
***
"How did she recruit new members?" Jaci asked.
Mrs. Marcus sighed. "She knew when people were budding killers or saw something in those with #latent homicidal tendencies, and used it as leverage. Some of us enjoyed what we did, others didn't. They became training aids."
***
"Do you have proof of anything you've told us?" I asked.
"I can tell you the names of every man and woman I've killed."
"We can #disinter the bodies," Jaci said.
"We'd need permission from the families or a court order," I said.
"She's all the probable cause we need."
***
"You'd better call the captain," I said.
Jaci nodded and dialed. "Captain, it's Garcia. Mrs. Marcus is gonna give up all of her victims."
We heard a dog #yip loudly in the background. "BE QUIET, Kojak." he yelled. To us he said, "I'm coming in. Is Thibodeaux with you?"
***
Jaci and I stared at each other for a second before she answered. "Yes sir."
"Put me on speaker," he ordered.
"You're on speaker, sir."
"Since I expected you to disobey my orders, detective, it will #obviate the need for me to discipline you."
"Yes sir," I replied.
***
While we waited for the captain to arrive, Mrs. Marcus said she had another surprise for us.
"Grace has a daughter...She named her Hope of Mankind, #Usurper of Pandora."
"What kind of name is that?" Jaci asked.
"Do you know the story of Pandora's Box?"
"I do," I said.
***
"Thibodeaux, my office," the captain bellowed as he arrived, stopping me from telling the story.
I thought I was going to get chewed out anyway as I walked into his office. He sat at his desk and tinkered with his #kinetic art sculpture.
"Why did you come in tonight?"
***
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