With increasing menace and calculated, self-serving, ill intent, the murders have been slowly escalating and, at the time of writing, the body count stands at three. Not forgetting, of course, that another intended victim his fiancée, no less survived his attempt to kill her and pocket her savings while also reaping the benefits of the life-insurance policy he had “arranged” for her. And yet, as he has destroyed one life after another, this murderer’s family and neighbours have remained oblivious to his secretive, psychopathic ways. Apart from his mother for whom he remains, even as a man in his 50s, a cherished golden child they might not all be overly fond of the pompous businessman in question. but a serial killer?
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It all started on a late morning on a highway. A camera panned to the cab of a large semi-trailer truck. The driver wore a plaid shirt and a day s growth of beard. Next to him was a mysterious hitchhiker in expensive clothes that were ripped and a fresh head wound.
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