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It might not be an individual at all. What if it was a cult, or some Satanic society working to some sort of other-world calendar that dictated that mutilations and murders be carried out according to some sacred order? Under most circumstances, I would have reached over and turned on the light and uttered this new thought into my voice recorder, but with B.C. just finally drifting off into an untroubled sleep, I was afraid it would wake her. Luckily, the fringearea thought stayed with me till the dawn. |
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All of which leads to the lady they call Widow Austin. How, I asked myself, would this cult or group or whatever know what was going on? Given that, how did they select their victims? Or was it a random thing, mere vagaries of fate? In the cases of both the incidents at Battle Harbor and the Coalition commune, they were able to perpetrate their crimes because they were able to isolate their victimsin both cases, youngsters without adequate supervision. But the question still remained, did they have some sort of advance notice about where these children were going, or were these nothing more than terrible coincidences when the victims stumbled into their grasp? |
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Taking my long shot hypothesis one step further, if the cult needed a contact with the community, there would have to be an advance partyand that advance party |
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