Chapter 15.

“What is life? ¿What is death? ¿A metaphor perhaps? Or simply a mystery that we cannot solve…”

As soon as dawn came, Olive wasted no time and continued stringing together strange unsolved cases from Whistler. ¿Did the authorities not serve in this country? The truth was that they did serve and were very strict and efficient. 

That didn't mean that their prisons were full of rapists, thieves and serial killers, but it seemed that there was a terribly evil person living among its inhabitants as if nothing had happened, and the worst thing was that he was still free… because if the murderer left a pattern that the authorities had not detected, it was that all the victims found had no fingerprints or signs of sexual abuse; he didn't leave a trace, it was like swimming in murky waters and this was annoying for Olive, because she wanted to shout to the world that she was the one who was discovering what the great authorities hadn't seen... worse still, she was in danger of dying if she revealed her identity, until now she hadn't had any death threats or anything like that, in fact, everything was suspiciously calm, so much so that it was scary to think that her tranquility could be overturned at any moment...

But suddenly she found herself reviewing a case that paralyzed the whole world and that is that two eight-year-old girls were kidnapped on a school camp, at first they thought they had just gotten lost on a field trip, but after twenty-four hours later it was determined that the girls had indeed disappeared as if by magic.

When the parents of the victims were notified, they were in a panic. The safety of the children was paramount and they had let too much time go by. Now they had no idea where to look for their daughters. 

Authorities began searching all of northern Whistler and the border with Zaxonia.

This time, authorities had captured a possible suspect who had an old criminal record, but everyone said they were not in that place at the time of the disappearance. Many others claimed that because they had a criminal record, they were given greater importance and wanted to incriminate them, but this was not true. They were just desperate to find the girls before a tragedy happened again.

Rescue groups searched the nearby cliffs and all the remote places between Zaxonia and Whistler, they were also duly searched and no traces of the girls were found, they only found illicit substances and that there were places that provided sexual services in exchange for some Zaxonian gems or silver, which was what was most valuable at that time among the border traders.

 Time seemed to be running out for the authorities and the kidnapper seemed to mock everyone, once again showing that he had the power of ubiquity; it seemed that he was “God” among men, that is, you could see him, but you couldn’t discover him; he was a master of deception…

After seventy-two hours, a chase broke out between a thug and the Whistler authorities, there were helicopters flying over the scene. 

A Big truck was coning and the driver couldn’t stop and when he did, they quickly proceeded to search the vehicle, but when they opened the driver’s seat they found that the driver’s hands had been amputated and his forearms were tied to the steering wheel. His mouth was covered with tape and he had an “X” marked on his chest with a scalpel. It was as if they had been sent a decoy, because in the co-pilot’s seat they found folders and photos of the criminals who had recently left and who coincidentally were the ones they had interviewed days before. 

When they tried to remove the tape from the driver’s mouth, he moaned in defense and begged with his head not to do it, because if he did the whole truck would explode, and so they stopped: the message that the kidnapper wanted to send was clear, because the man could not move from his seat at any time, it seems that the kidnapper had already condemned him to death; in the back of the truck they found a terrifying scene when he opened it, because all without exception, were the criminals from the folders tied and gagged, some without eyes, others hanged, a few were mutilated and at the bottom, in two glass coffins, they found the two girls, who had been dressed as fairy tale princesses, but all the bones of the human body had been removed, only the skull remained, the rest was a sack of meat with dead organs. 

Many of the authorities went in to take photos and collect evidence, but once they entered they never came out, because the doors automatically closed and the truck started driving, the shots started inside the truck to free itself, but none of this worked, because the the truck stopped just ten kilometers further on to activate loudspeakers that played a symphony that stimulated panic and terror and was recognized as the voice of the girls, accompanied by the criminals in the chorus and refrains, only for everyone to say in unison at the end of the melody “in my memory, all the small things, are designed in my mind, in my memory you will not find the words, now turn around so I can no longer see you”...

A second later, the vehicle exploded with all the bodies inside, so many officials died that day, but the curious thing about the situation is that the flames that rose six meters high formed an “X” and then changed to a cross, the case was filed away and not solved for fear of even bigger attacks; and that day was removed from the Whistler calendar and remains current to this day.

Olive couldn't help, but let the tears flow from her eyes after this, it was a very unfortunate sentence, the righteous and the sinners lost their lives at the hands of a psychopath, but ¿would Patrick be capable of committing such a crime? She doubted, she wanted to believe that he was not so evil, but in her heart a feeling told her that he had committed all these terrible acts and that he was the one who had to die that day and not all the victims, however, nothing could change the past, it's not like you could revive someone after almost fifteen years have passed... we can only move on with our lives and live them as best we can, because we don't know when death will knock on our door with a beguiling smile...

Olive uploaded this case and it immediately became a trend, there were divided opinions, some rejecting the subject for being very sensitive and others supporting it for dealing with a very special case for the nation, but at the end of the article it concludes with the letters (D.E.)...