This is a small remote town 30 minutes from any police or fire station or grocery store. This is a town where everyone knows everyone and is on a first name basis. A small town. There had always been one family that was kind-of off. A family with a particularly tough life, but nobody knew the details. The Smiths used to be just like any another family taking part in parties and activities in town but one day that all changed. The other neighbors stopped seeing them around town, but no one knew why. It all started about a year ago when another family the Masseys, decided they didn’t want to be friends with them any longer. They stopped including them in activities and allegations of mental and physical abuse started flying.
Mr. and Mr. Smith recently passed away and that was particularly difficult on their only son, Dan. Dan was a tall, musically inclined man who struggled with mental illness. Dan was not in a good place right now and he often thought of very bad things – even murder but could he seriously go through with it? Dan’s thoughts of harming himself and others have haunted him throughout his life, but it didn’t use to be this way. He wasn’t always mentally ill, he used to be “normal.” He didn’t always hate his neighbors. Their families had been good friends, but not now. Dan was upset and embarrassed by the treatment he and his family received, and he realized he wanted revenge on the Masseys.
Dan thought long and hard about getting his revenge. His plan was to slip through their back door, he still had a key. He would go in the back door and head upstairs to the bedrooms and silently snuff out the lives of the people who hurt him. Of course, he didn’t want to be caught. Who would want to be caught? Then the right night came for Dan to follow his plan. He had been waiting a long time for this night. He would kill the Masseys while they slept but he wanted to make sure he didn’t leave any fingerprints. He would slip out silently the way he had gone in and make sure to ditch the murder weapon a lead pipe and the house key. He had forgotten one very important detail, the Massey’s son who was home and in front of the TV when he entered the house. Dan tiptoed upstairs and carefully went to work, hoping he wouldn’t be heard or seen.
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The next day the police interviewed everybody in the neighborhood. Everybody was terrified that the Massey’s had been murdered and wondered who could do such a terrible thing. The detective made sure to talk to the Massey’s son who gave a description of their tall neighbor. Dan was not the only tall man in the town, in fact Rich the other tall man, could have been Dan’s brother, they looked a lot alike. Gavin, the detective on the case didn’t get around to questioning Dan until the next day.
The detective thought Rich fit the same description and was likely the one who committed the crime. After speaking with Dan, he knew he was also a suspect, but detective Gavin was pursuing Rich. “I didn’t do it I swear,” Rich said. But Gavin wasn’t so sure. Rich knew the Smith’s and the Massey’s had been good friends, so close in fact they had keys to each other’s houses. When the police arrived at the scene of the crime the back door was locked. “I know who it was, it was Dan,” Rich said. The detective thought about it for a while. Then he realized Rich might be right. Gavin spoke to Dan again who was very nervous and realized he probably had made a mistake locking the door when he left.
A couple weeks went by and Dan thought he had gotten away with what he did. Finally, detective Gavin knocked on his door again and Dan knew his time up. Dan tried to run but Gavin anticipated that and had police stationed around his house. Detective Gavin found the murder weapon and the key in an abandon lot by Rich’s house. Dan kept insisting he was innocent but unfortunately for him the jury didn’t agree. He was found guilty and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Did they get the right man? Dan was not happy and vowed someday he’d get his revenge on detective Gavin.
