CHAPTER 12.

“Even I can't hide him on a roof, but he's coming for you and he won't make a sound, because he's an expert at making you shut up…”

Olive continued motivated to unmask Patrick and there were more and more cases where Patrick appeared sporadically, but she had a hunch that he was the only perpetrator of such crimes…

In this case, she came across the disappearance of three teenagers between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, who after leaving their institutions never returned home…

One afternoon like every other day, three teenagers between the ages of thirteen and sixteen disappeared never to see the light of day again…

These girls were kidnapped by a young man whose face they could not discover, but who was clearly very strong… The shocked and frightened teenagers began to scream, but once the door of the van closed, they fainted, because the air they were breathing was altered by a drug that made them unconscious for a long time… The origin of this drug was unknown and it was probably manufactured by the kidnapper, but it was clearly more effective than chloroform…

Twelve days passed and no one knew anything about the girls and the search was at its peak; What was even stranger was that the thesis students who were about to graduate were also helping in the search, and once again the only name Olive noticed was Patrick Tempus. Was it too much of a coincidence that he was helping to look for the girls or was it just a setup? Whatever the case, Olive didn't waste any time and continued with the story, because there was something very strange about this kidnapping. Just like with the children, no one had contacted them, they hadn't asked for a ransom, absolutely nothing. It was as if the kidnapper didn't care about material things and was looking for something inside the bodies of minors. Maybe he was putting together something strange. Or was it for private consumption? Whatever the case, she hadn't the slightest idea...

The weeks passed and with it the hopes of seeing them alive again; Anxiety was palpable in the air, women and men were desperate, because nothing like this had ever happened before. It was true that there had been minor crimes, but nothing that would leave such a mark on an entire nation. The rescuers gave their best and divided into groups exploring forests, streams, hills and towns without any result. It was frustrating, because they had nothing of the kidnapper, only the cameras of a nearby bakery that had barely recorded anything, but the kidnapper had a crow mask and the car had no license plate, it was black, apart from that there was nothing to hold on to. Obviously they had searched for all the cars that met the model they were looking for, but still without any result…

Twenty-six days later, the teenagers appeared lifeless in each one's room, inside their respective houses. The kidnapper had taken great pains to arrange them so that they would resemble Sleeping Beauty from a children's story, but when you looked closer and saw the body, their mammary glands were missing and the tailbone of each of them had been removed, their intestines had also been removed as well as their corneas, so seeing the kidnapper's face through the mirror technique used with the eyes to identify a possible suspect or the perpetrator of these crimes was out of the question; And now, just like the previous crimes, there were no fingerprints, not a badly made scratch: clean and precise cuts that described that they died seconds before their families arrived home, because the drug and sedative that had been given to them had expired their analgesic effect, so that despite their quick death, they died from cardiorespiratory arrest caused by the indescribable pain they endured…

Olive could not believe this, she had heard of serial killers, but someone who did this was not human, not only was it messing with children, but it did not give adolescents the opportunity to grow; and the worst thing was that all the victims were women, it was like a deep resentment that this person had against the female sex, but she returned again to the origin of everything after uploading it to the forum; was it the same person who had done all these atrocities? She did not know for sure, but she trusted her instincts and in the end she left the initials that corresponded to this case (F.A.)