Graveyard Serial Killer excerpt Dark Than Black, Tales of Horror

Graveyard Serial Killer excerpt

Darker Than Black, Tales of Horror

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Once Jimmy dragged the frightened girl into his house, he wasted little time throwing her down the steps. He locked the door and left her there for a number of days. When he finally went down to her, he chained the famished girl up to one of his torture devices and then binge raped her. When he'd gotten his fill, he simply left her alone to die. In her weakened state, it didn’t take long.

Now the monster had created a crisis for himself. What was he going to do with the girl’s body? He threw her into a deep freezer until he could think of something. Breaking from his normal routine of exclusively watching porn, he started obsessively watching the television news and fictional cop shows. He started seeing murderers of all types and realized he wasn’t alone in the world; he had kindred spirits out there!

Jimmy paid particular attention to how these killers disposed of their victims. Most simply left them were they’d fallen, which wasn’t an option for him because he wanted to kill again and his freezer only held one body. Some killers burnt their victims in an effort to conceal their crimes. Others cut their victims into pieces and spread those pieces far and wide. Others, still, put their victims in shallow graves, in dumpsters or dumped them in waterways, weighted down, of course. None of these schemes worked for Jimmy, because he noticed a disturbing pattern. All those killers ended up getting caught.

Then one day at work, while digging a grave, he had a brainstorm. The opportunity was there, all he had to do was act upon it. Later that night, he pulled the dead girl from the freezer, wrapped her in a rug, dragged her to his car and threw her in the trunk. He nervously drove to the cemetery, paranoid that a cop would suspect him and pull him over, but despite his fears, he made it to the cemetery and drove through a secluded back entrance, unnoticed.

He went straight to a grave he’d dug earlier in the day, removed the dead girl from the car and threw her into the hole. He took a shovel and covered her body with just enough dirt were she couldn’t be seen, and then left. When he got home he drank himself into a stupor.

The next day he went to work as usual, despite the hangover. He was waiting near the grave when the hearse and the funeral procession arrived. They took the coffin from the hearse, and the pall bearers carried it to the grave site. Not saying a word or making contact with anyone, he waited patiently while the priest said the last rites and the family said their final, tearful goodbyes. When they all left, he lowered the casket into the grave and covered it with earth. The body of his victim would never be found.