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Bill Strain

Short Stories
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The Case of the Mystery Man (6 ratings)
         by Bill Strain
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She got a good look at the PERP and he looked just like the composite of the guy who raped her sister. Vanessa agreed to a search of her room while she came to Central U.P.D. to develop a composite of the PERP.

At the Office of Inspector Baldero, Vanessa insists on seeing again the composite developed by her sister, but of course she is told that she cannot look at any pictures or composites until she has provided the identifying features for a composite.

Three sessions later the composite is complete indicating the appearance of the person who attacked Vanessa in her room that day. But it looks like the hallway attacker, not the rapist in the Central City P.D. case. Vanessa has remembered the wrong composite, but she has done a fantastic job of remembering it. And so composite No. 3 was born. When the search team returned from Vanessa's room, they had in custody the ribbon from her typewriter and miracle of miracles, the last threatening note was typed on VANESSA'S OWN TYPEWRITER.

The Mother came and took Vanessa to a motel for her safety. The next day The Mother met with Inspector Baldero who gave her all the facts of the case. Upon hearing that the PERP typed the note on Vanessa's own typewriter while she was in the room, the mother exclaimed, "ISN'T HE UNBELIEVABLE?", to which Inspector Baldero replied, "I believe you have found the perfect adjective".

No charges were filed against Vanessa. Central U.P.D. declined to offer 24 hour armed guards for the remaining days of the semester and the Spring Semester made a full completion without Vanessa's name appearing on a single Central U.P.D. offense report.

Somewhere in the North Central part of the State, a boy and a girl sit on a bench waiting for the bus that will take them from the North Central U. campus to downtown North Central City where they will see yet another movie and eat yet another meal at Taco Bell. The girl is thinking how loyal and loving her family is, especially her mother. The boy is thinking, "HOW IN HELL CAN I GET OUT OF NORTH CENTRAL U?"


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