Comments | duffuzima: Writer's Block: True Crime

duffuzima

Writer's Block: True Crime

Jan 15, 2009 10:40

1987/88 a girl I went to summer camp with was found bludgened to death in Orange County, CA. The case was never solved. This is THE ONE that most fascinates me.

One for everybody - Jack the Ripper - who was he? I think that one author did a pretty good job of "solving" it, but still...

crime, writer's block, murder

Comments 2

slytherinswench January 15 2009, 18:51:59 UTC

Oh, wow! That is probably very scary, to have someone you know taken so brutally.

Blk Dahlia prompt reply duffuzima January 19 2009, 03:18:20 UTC

It wasn't so much scary as odd/creepy. I don't know if you've ever done the "camp thing" but you bond so intensely with people in such a short time. Technically you could say I barely knew this girl, but I mourned her death as if she were one of my closest friends.
Then to add to the weirdness of it all - during the investigation we started finding out all this stuff about her history we didn't know, and they questioned nearly every guy in our "inner circle". It was surreal. When I look back now, it is sad, and tragic that her killer was never brought to justice, but I have a good reason to think she was very troubled and probably living a Hellish existence. Possibly in some twisted way it was a blessing.