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A hand points towards the Sky
It is chalk white the flesh and skin is long gone
It is attached to a body that is still in the ground
Through wind rain and erosion
The hand is once again touched by the Sun
The body has been there for over ten years
Buried in the field of dreams
But soon this Godforsaken place will be renamed
the field of screams
Little Billy Martin is taking his Dog Boomerang
for a walk
When they come upon a green field Boomerang
gets all excited
And he runs off barking and yapping
Billy chases after Boomerang because it is getting close to
dinner time
And tonight Mama is cooking his favourite Lasagne
Billy spots Boomerang digging around in the corner of
the field
As he gets closer he notices that Boomerang has something
in his mouth
Boomerang is proud of his discovery and he drops it at Billys
feet
Billy has one look and lets out a shriek and he takes off running
faster then he has ever run before
Boomerang trots behind him wagging his tail
What Boomerang dug up is laying on the ground
A Human skull with one distinctive feature
Its mouth is frozen in a permanent silent scream
Det Rick Fontana
is watching the County Medical Examiner Eartha
Campbell as she slowly unearths the rest of the body
Fontana is a twenty year veteran at the NYPD
And he has investigated over three hundred murders
He has a good track record with over 90% of those
cases solved
But this one looks intriguing
One last case before he retires
The Medical Examiner gets his attention telling him that
she will have the results of the autopsy as soon as she can
Det Fontana is a lot like that TV Detective
He might look dishevelled and like he hasn’t slept for a week
But his record speaks for itself
He watches the M.E van as it drives away
Something tells him that this body is only scratching the
surface
His offsider Sgt Pulinski and a few uniforms are walking the scene
looking for clues
A discarded Cigarette butt anything useful
But after ten years the DNA will be degraded
The scene is cordoned off and the Cavader Dogs are called in
Fontana has a sinking feeling in his chest
He knows the Dogs will find more bodies
And he isn’t wrong
Twenty six more bodies are discovered that day in the field
The field of screams
The Medical Examiner gets help from nearby precincts to help
process the corpses
And two weeks later all of the bodies have been autopsied
The M.E and Fontana hold a press conference
Fontana tells the press that everything will be done to catch
this serial killer
That no stone will be left unturned
Every cliché is used to keep the press quite
But pretty soon it will be a quite riot
In a run down apartment in the seedier part of town
A weasel of a man sits on his lounge watching the Evening
News
So they have finally found my bodies
He strokes himself as the News reader reads the auto cue
Her blond hair and lips move at the same time
Twenty seven bodies have been found in Evans field
A killer is on the loose
More after this commercial break
Eartha Campbell the M.E has been holding something back
It is for Detective Fontanas ears only
It seems that all of the victims had been skinned alive
Going by the cuts on the bones and the grimaces on their
faces
They were still breathing as the skin was flayed from their bodies
Heaven knows the pain and suffering they were put through
The killer leaves his Apartment he is a man on a mission
It has been six months since he last used his knife
He has a need that will only go away when he ends a life
He drives around looking for a runaway or hitch hiker
Somebody who wont be missed for a while
Then he notices a likely looking target standing on the
corner
She has her thumb out looking for a ride
Jesus he thinks don’t these people ever learn
There are bad people out there
And I am the baddest of the bad
The killer pulls his van to the curb and asks the young lady
in which direction is she headed
The answer is Rochester
She gives the killer a smile hoping he is going in her direction
He smiles back telling her to climb in and get comfortable
Then he drives her off to oblivion
The killers van has had a bit of work done to it
In the back the interior has been stripped bare
So after the deed has been done he can just wash the Blood
away
And so no DNA evidence will remain
And hose out the van he does
The girl from Rochester couldn’t fight one on one with a man
with a knife
He skinned her alive in the back of the van
She finally dies with a scream all over her face
Now the killer has to find a new burial site
The field of screams is now out of bounds
But then the killer thinks again
That field is his field so the Cops can go fuck themselves
He drives the van to the edge of the field of screams
Checking out the situation
Two Cops sit in a patrol car talking about Basketball eating
Donuts drinking Coffee just shooting the breeze
The killer reaches in to the glove box and pulls out a 38 special
He slowly makes his way under the cover of darkness to the
Police car
He gets close to the passenger side window and BANG BANG
Both Cops are dead before they even know they have been shot
The killer returns to his van and drags the girl from Rochester
to his field
And using the spotlights that light up the crime scene he positions
the girl so that her skinless body glistens under the glare
The killer drives satisfied with a job well done
And he arrives home with his needs sated
Det Fontana is awoken at 3am by dispatch informing him of
the shooting at the field
Two Policemen are down
Fontana calls Pulinski and they both arrive at the scene at the
same time
The bodies of the two Officers are still slumped in their seats
And the girl from Rochester is being examined by the M.E
Now the perp is a Cop killer
And Det Fontana makes a vow with himself not to retire until
this killer is caught
And this vow will be kept
The killer lies low for two weeks and then the urge hits him hard
So he jumps into his van and slowly he cruises the downtown
district
Looking for a thrill looking for a kill
And he spots a likely victim sitting at a Bus stop
The last Bus left about an hour ago
So this girl is stranded
Only she doesn’t know it yet
He cruises the van to a stop then gets out to tell the girl
that the last Bus is long gone
The girl looks like she is about to cry
The killer offers to drive her home
She starts to accept the offer but then her sixth sense
kicks in and she starts to back up
The killers urge is out of control and he goes to grab
the girl by the arm
The girl starts screaming and she scratches deep furrows
down his face
Then she is free and she takes off at a sprint
The killer is furious and he races back to his van
Hoping to catch the girl and teach her a lesson with his knife
But the girl is long gone
With Blood streaming down his face the killer is crestfallen
as he drives home
The girl runs and runs until she gets home
She tells her parents that she was almost abducted by a man in
a white van
But she has scratched his face real good
Her parents call the Police who arrive shortly after to get a
statement
After talking to the girl and hearing of the scatching
The Police put plastic baggies over the girls hands to
preserve any DNA evidence
At the Police Precinct the girls finger nails are scraped
and hopefully a match will be found
Det Fontana is walking down the corridor when the DNA
Technician tells him of the find
Maybe there isn’t a link to the field of screams murders
But maybe there is
So Det Fontana holds another press conference telling
the public to be on the look out for a man in his twenties
who drives a white van
Plus he will be sporting deep scratches down his face
Unfortunately for the killer he was too drunk so he missed
the late night news
So he went to work the next morning at the Post Office
One of his co workers asks him about the scratches
And the killer tells that he was taking the trash out last night
and was attacked by a large Raccoon
His co worker doesn’t buy his story so she goes to her locker
and calls the Police hot line and tells them about the scratch
marks
And that her co worker also drives a white van
The killer watches the news in his lunch break
And he sees his scratched up face on the screen
Something explodes in his head and he jumps to his feet
wielding his knife
He slashes at his co workers killing two and injuring a third
Then he reaches Julie the one who phoned the Police
He knows she is the one
So he stabs her twice races to the car park jumps in his van
not really knowing where to go
Fontana and Pulinski arrive at the Post Office and are almost
broadsided by a white van fleeing the scene
The Killer knows what he has to do and he drives like a Bat out
of Hell heading towards the field of screams
He arrives with Fontana and Pulinski hot on his tail
He drives to the middle of the field and is surrounded by about
twenty Police Officers
Det Fontana informs him of his rights
But the killer isn’t listening he is at his favourite place
The field of screams
So he looks Fontana right in the eye
He brings his knife up to his own throat and he opens it up
from ear to ear
The killer is dead
He died in his field
His Blood is dripping into the dirt
Mingling with the Blood of all the people that he hurt.
THE END
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