The Mixed up Murders

The Mixed up Murders
By Chantel David

Far across the world in the deep mountains there was a small town called Owensville. The town was so small they did not bother to put it on a map. Owensville was the regular type of small town where you had the town drunks, fights, teens drinking down the baseball field, and baseball was the usual event of the town. “You know the things that usually happen in a small town”. John Henderson and is partner Marie just moved to the town and did not know too many people. They moved in the old farm house right at the top of the mountain. From their home you could view the whole town.

John and Marie never planned on having children but mysteriously Marie became pregnant when they moved into their new home. Many of the people in the town did not agree with Marie being pregnant because John and Marie were not married. When Marie would go to town to gather groceries or even when she was driving through the town the men and women would scream vulgar and violent names at her. This really upset Marie because she did not plan on being pregnant. John would usually just tell Marie to ignore them and that they were just jealous or that he loved her and not to worry.

One night while John was at work Marie was in the middle of her usually house cleaning duties and heard some noises coming from her back yard. Marie ignored them at first, until she heard them again. Marie peeked out through the window to see if she could see anything. She noticed that there was a man running from her barn. From that moment the barn burst into flames. Marie did not know what to do. Marie ran outside trying to find the man. Marie began to panic she had no idea how to handle something like this.

Marie finally decided to run into the house to phone the police and John. When Marie got onto her porch a man in a black mask was standing there. The man came towards Marie and pushed her down the stairs with excessive force. Marie being pregnant passed out. The man took off with the barn still in flames and while Marie lye there on the ground helpless.

John got a call at work that his house was burning but soon found out that it was only his barn. When John got home he did not know where Marie was. The police told him that she was taking to the hospital and that it would be a good idea for him to go there now.
John arrived at the hospital. When he walked in, the doctor let him know that Marie lost the baby. John was furious and very upset. When Marie woke John asked her what happened. Marie said there was a man with a mask he lit the fire, he pushed me. Marie burst into tears. Marie was very upset about the loss of her un-born. John let her know that it was okay and that whoever done this, would pay.

Weeks went by and the two settled into their home. John eventually built the barn again because it was needed for his storage and his farm truck. Early in the afternoon one day Marie and John were sitting on the porch and the mailman came around. The mailman had a package for the couple. John signed for the package then John sat back down beside Marie and opened it. Inside the package there was a tape. John told Marie to follow him in the house so they could see what was on it. John put the tape in the VCR and sat down beside Marie, than John pressed play.
At first the two did not know what the video was or where the image was taking place. As the video got further they noticed it was there house in the video. Then it showed the barn bursting into flames. It focused on that for less than a minute. John and Marie were horrified. Not only did the man burn the barn and make them lose their baby but he taped it! After it showed the flames the video turned over to Marie lying on the ground bleeding. Once John seen this tape, he finally got an idea of what Marie had actually gone through. Just watching the tape reminded Marie about her loss. Marie told John to shut it off.

Now that John watched this video he knew he had to do something about this. John knew that whoever done this was the person that sent the tape. John sent the tape to the police station to see if there was, finger prints. Two days later the police office phoned him at home. The police let John know that there was finger prints on the tape. They told him who it was. The minute they said the name, John hung up the phone without saying thank you and grabbed his keys and left the house. Marie did not know where he was going.

John got into his vehicle and begun to drive into town. As John was driving he was trying to think what he was going to do to this man. Then it came to him, he was going to do the same to the man’s family that he done to his.

John stopped into the gas station on the way and purchased five dollars worth of gas. John got back into his truck and drove to the street that the man lived on. John parked across the street until it was dark enough so no one would see him. John seen the last light in the man’s house go off and got out of his truck and ran over to the front of the house. John never entered the house, he just pored the gas all over the front of the house and then all over the families vehicle. John then lit a match and through it on the car and porch.

John only planned on giving the man and his family a scare and that is all he thought he did. The next day, John and Marie were eating breakfast. John was sipping on his tea and reading the paper, John flipped over to the town news page. The page said “Horror Strikes the Town yet again with another fire, Killing 2 children, and two older adults”. John could not believe his eyes. John did not plan on killing them he only wanted to scare them. John closed the news paper and glanced over at Marie he did not know if he should tell her. John decided not to.

A week had passed by, John was trying to forget about it but he could not stop thinking about what he had done. John thought that the cops did not think of him as a suspect because they had no evidence. That day the police showed up at his house, to ask him some questions. John tried his best to avoid getting caught. Then the police brought up the fact that he dropped the tape off to them to get the man’s prints, the man that died in the fire. Marie was sitting there listening she did not have a clue why the police were there asking John these questions. John could not help but shake and speak nervously. The police asked John a few more questions then came to the conclusion that they had to place him under arrest.

The police asked John to stand up, than they cuffed him and took him out to the cop car. Marie was screaming “John, John! What did you do?”. The trial came around John was charged for the murder of the family. They judge gave him the death penalty. To this day Marie still does not know what came over John. Of course she knew he wanted to get them back but she did not think he would murder them. Marie did not know that John did not mean it. John only wanted to scare them, but now he was a murderer a cold blood killer.