1. Stop The Killings: A Short Story
For quite some time currently , I have been looking to compose articles in a fresh genre. Stories
about the pathos of hand techinques and articles coping with issues of individual freedom are great,
nevertheless at some point there is a need to see if I can really become more versatile...to see
basically can actualize that will idea that has been ensconced in my brain pertaining to so long. Well,
that point came and I chose to do a piece that will either involved any spree killer or even a mass
murderer. Ultimately , I'd work my own way to a successive killer, but first issues first.
I are now living in northern New Hampshire that is adjacent to central Maine so where else can rural
poverty, unemployment , and despair engender enough rage as well as anger to induce spur-of-the-
moment murders? probably West Virginia or perhaps Mississippi, but for my own fictional purposes,
your northeast is just great. Thusly prepared, my partner and i began to map out plots and fill in gaps.
As a factual backdrop , there were two stories in particular that haunted me and, my partner and i
believed, would provide a solid conceptual platform pertaining to my new imaginary pursuits.
One involved Andrew Cunanan, any real-life American psycho who murdered 5 people, including
popular fashion designer Gianni Versace, in a cross-country spree killing journey after a frightening 3-
month interval in 1997. Amongst other "colorful" issues , he was known as a crack head, brilliant
child, male prostitute , clever cross bureau , aging kept young man , S&M porn star, and chameleon.
The first homicide of Cunanan's spree was that of his friend Jeffrey Trail about April 27, the late
nineties in Minneapolis. Walk was bludgeoned furiously with a claw retracted between 25 as well as
30 times, mostly on his mind and face. The following was his previous lover, architect david Madson,
who was discovered outside Minneapolis 2 days later with gunshot wounds to the mind. One bullet
got pierce his again and another got grazed his oral cavity. But the one that wiped out him had joined
through his vision at close range and had passed via his head. Law enforcement officials quickly
recognized a web link , as Trail's physique had been found in Madson's loft apartment. They then
began an intensive manhunt. Cunanan, meanwhile, owned to Chicago exactly where he killed well
known real-estate developer lee Miglin, 72, about May 4. It really is believed he required pleasure in
torturing Miglin. He reportedly wrapped his mind in masking video tape , leaving small openings for
breathing and plunged a pair of trimming shears into the chest and slit his throat with a gardener's
bow observed. A report documented 49 separate injuries in order to Miglin, including 20 blows to the
head and deal with. It demonstrated your unbridled rage Cunanan was experiencing, not to mention
his pattern regarding disfiguring his victims' faces.
Five times later, Cunanan, whom escaped in Miglin's car, continued the killing in remote control
Pennsville, NJ, with a cemetery, where he or she killed his last victim, caretaker william Reese for the
pick-up truck. A clear case of being in the wrong position at the wrong occasion. As the manhunt
dedicated to Reese's truck, Cunanan remained in camouflaging in Miami seashore Finally on come
july 1st 15, he select fashion designer Versace pertaining to his fifth as well as final murder. Versace
was gunned straight down in cold bloodstream outside his miami Beach home.
Eight days later claire Cunanan committed destruction with a shotgun blast to the head on-board a

2. Miami houseboat. An autopsy demonstrated that Cunanan had not contracted H.I.v., disproving
speculation with what might have triggered the spree. No one will ever know his reasons and after
Versace's murder, the case had been for all practical uses closed.
The information giving rise for the second story happened much closer to home and involved a single
Carl Drega, a person from northern and.H, who wiped out 2 NH state troopers, a decide and a
newspaper manager and wounded 3 other law enforcement officers before being shot to death inside
a fierce fire fight with police inside the small town of Colebrook (not far from the Canadian border).
Drega used an optically sighted AR-15 to do the horrific damage. Searching of his residence following
the rampage chillingly revealed hundreds of lbs of booby-trapped explosives.
What made your Drega massacre intriguing involved the activities leading up to the flash point. Drega
got long battled along with local government officials, beginning with a dispute inside the 70's over
whether he could use tarpaper to side the house. Then almost 30 years ago , he claimed eighty feet
of the riverbank along his residence collapsed during a rainstorm. Drega decided to eliminate and
pack adequate dirt to repair the harm , saying this would recover his lot along the Connecticut River in
order to its original size. But state administrators accused him when trying to change the course of
your river. A state efficiency officer, Sergeant Eric Stohl, claimed to have spotted the project from the
river even though passing the Drega property on a fish-stocking operation. The state hauled Drega
into court , attempting to block the tiny "project." this procedure was piled along with earlier charges
with the local town, a few dating back more than 20 years , and starting when the town of Columbia
hauled Drega into court and threatened your pet with liens, judgement making and finally property
seizure over a "zoning abuse " which was comprised of the failure to finish a residence covered with
the aforementioned tarpaper within a certain period of time.
Drega was scarcely literate and lacked legal assistance, and his awesome self initiated legal filings
became any laughing stock at the courts plus the newspapers to which the obsessed guy sent
copies, getting assistance. A keg of dynamite have been created and only awaited the "final straw "
before it was ignited
In 1994 , the town selectman Vickie Bunnell, accompanied a major city tax assessor in order to
Drega's property inside a dispute over an assessment. In exactly what should have been a clear
warning, Drega terminated shots into the atmosphere to drive them away. When the rope bought an
AR-15 rifle and shield vest, and commenced equipping his residence with early-warning electronic
digital noise and motion detectors against exactly what he sensed can be an inevitable government
strike. It appeared Drega was running out of endurance with governmental red tape and what he may
have perceived, deservingly or wrongly, becoming a pattern of unarguable harassment. The safety
measures were there but nobody recognized them. Certainly he was aware of the government tactics
used to confront civilians from Waco and ruby Ridge.
On july 19, 1997, from about 2:30 , two NH state Troopers, Scott Phillips and Les master , stopped
Drega inside the parking lot of LaPerle's IGA supermarket within neighboring Colebrook, for the
"perception of disorders " in his pickup truck. Perhaps , this triggered your pent up rage as well as
anger Drega have been harboring for such a long time. The keg regarding dynamite exploded and

3. that he shot and wiped out both troopers. Drega then commandeered their vehicle and owned to the
office regarding former selectman, currently lawyer and part-time judge, Vickie Bunnell. Fearful of
Drega, Bunnell reportedly taken a handgun in their purse. She warned the staff in the creating to get
out before the girl herself left with the back door. Drega walked to the back of the building as well as
shot her inside the back where the girl died. Dennis Joos, editor of the community Colebrook News as
well as Sentinel, worked at work next door. Unarmed, he or she ran out as well as tackled Drega.
Drega walked about fifteen feet with Joos still clutching your pet around the legs, after that calmly
shot your pet in the back, harming him as well.
Drega then drove through the state line in order to Vermont where he or she fired at new hampshire
Fish and game Warden Wayne Saunders, sending his car off the road. Saunders' accidental injuries
were not life-threatening. Law enforcement officials from various agencies soon spotted your
abandoned police cruiser motorcycle Drega had been driving. As they approached the car , they
began having fire from a nearby hilltop where Drega had positioned themselves , armed with the AR-
15 and about 150 models of ammunition. He or she managed to wound a pair of more troopers and
also a U.S. NAtional boundaries Patrol agent prior to he was wiped out by police gunfire.
Carl Drega might have been pushed too hard with the government. The license plates on the rusty
pickup lose interest the New Hampshire state motto, "Live totally free or Die." evidently he had made
the choice, one that demonstrated fatal for several innocent people.
If the Cunanan case stands as a poster child for spree killings, the Drega rampage is echoing of
those kinds of circumstances where the killer have been eulogized as a kind of folk hero as well as
martyr among revolutionary activists who discover his death since evidence of a govt conspiracy to
deny Americans their privileges , notwithstanding the number of not guilty victims slaughtered simply
by their "hero."
Another of this kind had been Gordon Wendell Kahl, a 63 years old North Dakota player who was a
levy protester best known pertaining to his involvement by 50 % fatal shootouts along with law
enforcement officers in1983. During the 70's, Kahl organized the first texas chapter of the known
Posse Comitatus. Within 1977, he had been charged with tax evasion and placed on 5 years'
probation. An arrest warrant had been issued for your pet in March 1981 when he failed to report to a
probation officer.
Kahl had been driving his home from a church meeting in Medina, ND on the evening regarding
February 13, 1983, when he struck a roadblock. Photographs rang out, and that he saw his son
gunned down. He or she pulled a Mini-14 automatic rifle coming from his gun stand , and a fierce
struggle ensued with community and federal officials--a battle that a few claim was fought against
because the government planned to silence Kahl's blunt criticism of the tax system. When the dirt
settled, Kahl, a very decorated WWII veteran , had killed a pair of officers and injured three others.
Some events once again resulted in a flash point explosion with horrific results. In june 1983, he had
been discovered hiding in an Arkansas farmhouse in the Ozarks as well as was killed in a ensuing
shootout along with law enforcement officers; a local sheriff was also wiped out in the exchange.
Inexplicably, Kahl's body have been horrobly dismembered that gave rise in order to much

4. speculation the character of which could be the topic of separate articles.
Well armed with these bloody flashbacks, i had been now prepared pertaining to my task. The time
had come to brew a few coffee, boot up the computer and begin functioning. As is my will not , I
started your piece with a title to wit: "Savage killings In rural Maine." My design has always been to
claw down a title and then work around the idea.
I then started to read it, "Over a period of several days, and in Maine's worse homicide case in more
than a decade , a 31-year old cook with a spotty past and aimless future allegedly wiped out four
people, reduce three of them into pieces and set hearth to the other. Involving , he calmly described
to work at a nearby inn." The four-day rampage began at the start of the long work Day weekend and
had the makings of a "macabre" movie as opposed to that of a stressful spree. But the supposed
violence didn't hang on a minute. While in the holding aquarium , he attacked an additional inmate
hitting your pet in the back of the head with a mop stick in a unprovoked attack that may have been
serious got he not been restrained. And to enhance the senseless rampage, your suspect, Christian
Nielsen also killed 3 pet dogs. State law enforcement officials Chief Col. Craig Poulin called it "a
crime of horrific amounts."
Nielsen, who had been dwelling at the Black tolerate Bed & breakfast every day for a couple of
months, informed police his first victim on friday was Jimmy Whitehurst, 50, of Batesville, Ark., whose
remains were burned, dismembered and discarded inside the nearby town of Upton. Inn owner julie
Bullard, 65, had been killed Sunday. The following day , her daughter, Selby, and friend Cynthia
Beatson, 43, ended up also killed once they arrived at the resort unexpectedly. Police say Selby,
concerned for her asthmatic mother, came to Newry to check on the girl , leaving her a pair of
children at a buddy's house. Accompanied by Beatson, the pair evidently arrived as Nielsen was
covering the tracks from the next murder. Police say he then shot them both and began attempting to
dismember and disguise their bodies. Another dreadful case of being inside the wrong place in the
wrong time. The 3 women were unbelievably dismembered and first , but unconfirmed, reviews
indicated the women's bodies were sliced up with a Chainsaw.
Whitehurst had split coming from his common legislations wife, a Maine resident, and delivered south
in might , leaving two regarding his four kids behind, said the sister, Diana Whitehurst-Taylor, 52. But
after having a change of coronary heart , he returned in order to Newry, his cousin said. "He only
agreed to be trying to get his a pair of little ones and leave that will place," she said. He was called a
handyman who had previously been helping out julie Bullard and had been while he what food was in
the area.
In any chilling call, state police were alerted to the carnage monday evening by Nielsen's father and
stepmother who arrived at your inn, the dark Bear Bed as well as Breakfast (a remodeled seven-
bedroom farmhouse inside the rolling hills regarding western Maine), to find a woman's body as well
as blood outside. Nielsen's father told troopers he thought the son had dedicated the killing. Nielsen
then admitted harming all four people.
Julie Bullard had obtained the building, which had been converted into a B&t after moving in order to
Maine two years previously. She had managed a bed as well as breakfast in san francisco bay area

5. that she sold prior to coming to your Newry. "Her little girl , Selby, had merely lost her partner in a car
crash but in some ways the girl and Selby ended up....getting a fresh start," said Robin Zinchuk, from
the local Chamber regarding Commerce. Julie decided in February to close the Black tolerate ,
Zinchuk said, where there was a "For Sale" indicator out front. As well as Selby Bullard were built with
a 12-year-old daughter as well as an 8-year-old son. She had lately been working part-time with a
real estate firm in nearby Bethel. The phone rang unanswered Tuesday at the resort.
As news distribute , people in the community ended up shocked. Newry is actually near Maine's
national boundaries with NH. Your slayings unsettled folks in the pastoral villages near the Sunday
lake resort, about eighty miles northwest regarding Portland. The days among Labor Day and the
start of the foliage time of year are typically a quiet extend when tourists kayak , fish and participate in
golf at on the River. "The whole thing is actually surreal.. A shock to the present small community,"
said Nancy White, co-owner of the Sudbury resort , where Nielsen worked. White described your pet
as a reliable worker , a good cook as well as "soft-spoken, quiet individual. He had a history of driving
offenses that integrated an arrest pertaining to drunken driving, nevertheless nothing more serious.
The license had been terminated a year ago. Authorities decreased to discuss a motive for the
killings.
Sadly, Julie Bullard has four biological kids , four stepchildren, 20 grandchildren and "not just a single
enemy." "the girl was just an amazing woman ," said a little girl. "Loving and grateful." Diane
Whitehurst-Taylor said of her close friend James: "Oh my lord did he enjoy his kids, he'd do anything
for them. I want to know why, merely why, why, precisely why did this ought to happen to my
brother?" the girl said through sobs.
Nielsen was obtained held without bail. He appeared in the courtroom Tuesday wearing an orange
jumpsuit. He or she uttered only a pair of words in court: "we are ," when the judge asked if he had
been present. He appeared calm and had been smiling as he had been brought into as well as left
the courtroom. As he read about your happenings in a newspaper the next day, he seemed to enjoy
his prestige even laughing at instances. Maine is a state known for its lower crime rate, so the killings
came being a brutal shock.
Well there it was. Your makings of my own fictional Journey in to a new genre. NEvertheless there
was one huge problem problem. The storyplot involving Nielsen has not been fictional and I didn't
write it; it really occurred during this previous Labor Day weekend and local as well as national papers
taken headlines like the next : "Cook held in Maine B&B homicide spree." The above is a composite
from distinct sources. The real frightening part, however, is always that I had scoped out there a story
but got only as since far my title , "Savage Killings within Rural Maine." precisely how was I to learn
that Christian Nielsen would be the one to work around it and complete the gaps. The storyplot
already had been finished , albeit in tragic and horrible manner. The entire experience had been
chilling.
Well, i am just back at the idea again and it's thursday , September 13, '06 and I plan to talk about
either a mass assassin or a serial great. The unsolved fresh Bedford, MA successive kllings would be
my own backdrop if I decided to go in that direction. Coming from April to sept of 1988 any serial

6. murderer haunted New Bedford throwing his victims alongside highways outside of the area. The
slain ladies were prostitutes as well as drug addicts, the last of which was not discovered until April
1989. All told 12 women were shown to have perished as of this slayer's hands, a pair of remained
missing. Adding to the mystery had been the fact that several of your victims could be connected to
one another. There was a single suspevt who dedicated suicid and an additional who moved to
california after which the murders ceased and this, also , intrigued me.
Interestingly, there was speculation, though I didn't obtain it, that this great and Europe's "Lisbon
Ripper" were a similar person. The Ripper was a Portuguese successive slayer suspected from the
killings of prostitutes and drug fans in Portugal along with other European countries that commenced
about the time the brand new Bedford killings broken. Curiously, New Bedford does have a very
substantial Portuguese population.
But the backdrop that most interested me was a bulk murder that happened on December 6 , 1989,
when Marc Lepine killed 18 engineering students in the Ecole Polytechnique within Montreal. Lepine,
any moody, 25-year-old loner who blamed "feminists" for a series of unsuccessful career starts as
well as lost jobs, gunned a bloody walk through the classrooms as well as cafeterias. When he or she
finally shot themselves with his Sturm Ruger 223-calibre semi-automatic weapon , the toll achieved
15 dead as well as 13 wounded, almost all in just 20 minutes. It had been a horror that will shocked
Canada as well as triggered deep soul-searching about the roots regarding violence against ladies
The mass homicide prompted tighter weapon laws, which included your creation of the dubious
national firearms pc registry. It also prompted Parliament to create the National day of Remembrance
and motion on Violence in opposition to Women in 1991 to coincide while using December
anniversary from the tragedy.
Playing your random "rage in opposition to society" angle, i had been once again prepared to go after
my goal of composing a fictional piece..........this time around on a mass muderer type, but once more
my efforts ended up thwarted since the simple fact apparently is indeed stranger than fiction. On the
very same day, sept 13, 2-006, in the world papers papers described on still another bulk shooting,
and this a single also occurred in Montreal. Early accounts ended up as follows:
On sept 13, a solitary gunman attacked any Montreal college. Dressed up entirely in dark , he had "a
natural stone cold face" as well as opened fire all of a sudden , eyewitnesses said. REgarding 20
people were injured in the attack about Dawson College inside the city center. A single woman may
have perished later in hospital and several other victims were listed in important condition.
Witnesses said the man began the random assault beyond your college before going for walks
through the front door as well as continuing to shoot inside before law enforcement officials fatally
shot your pet. At times, he put behind vending machines before emerging to look at aim. "He said
practically nothing. He had a natural stone cold face, there was nothing on the face, he didn't say
anything, he or she didn't yell out there any slogans or perhaps anything. He merely started opening
hearth. He was a chilly blooded killer," said student Soher Marous. One distraught student said she
have been outside smoking a cigarette with your ex friends when the strike began. "There was
someone walking in a dark trenchcoat and large black boots using this type of retarded haircut and

7. that he had a huge machine gun. He had been walking down (the street ) in broad sunshine with a
gun -- no one says anything to him -- and he started shooting ," she told CBC television. One woman
said the player with the dice was white, regarding 19, and appeared to be "the stereotype, while using
long black trench coat and all your studs and piercing's and stuff like that will."
Police said your 25-year-old attacker had been from the Montreal location , but provided little other
information. His car was still at the college , and police ended up searching his house.
Once again eliminate was snatched coming from what I hoped can be literary victory. A single again, I
was halted in my tracks. This time around , rather than try to take a step different, I'll stick with the
pathos regarding boxing and pieces coping with the philosophy regarding Ayn Rand. Generally there
simply is no way anyone can stop, a lot less slow down the real killings that are going on on the
market. And I cannot maintain them.
Ted Sares can be reached at tedsares@adelphia.nEt
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