Anathema

Stephen Richards was college student going to Univeristy of Northern Iowa in Waterloo, Iowa, after graduating from high school in Joliet, Illinois. He had moved to Waterloo, and his older sister, Althea, 27, with their younger brother, Victor, 14, to Charles City in Floyd County. They wanted to get their brother away from the Latin Kings because he was jumped in when he was 11. Althea got scared because Vick had already killed a 10 year boy just five miles from Joliet Community High School. The Police had found the body of the youth impaled to one of the walls from his neck -- the heart had been ripped from the chest of the individual. I was a mutual friend of theirs and Stephen was one of my best friends -- I knew him since we were going to Joliet Junior College.
   I had graduated in 1994, while he graduated a year before me -- I moved down to Joliet after graduating from high school in Elgin. I had lived on the North Side of of the city while he was living on the West side -- they survived a drive by shooting that had murdered their parents, which left Althea to drop out of college in her junior year to make sure Steve finished high school. Steve worked in the Public Relations Department of the hospital to put himself through college -- majoring in psychological heatlh sciences, he wanted to work with troubled teens and children. I was in his journalism class, and while he was working in the hospital and studying; was an aspiring crime writer.
   They were in Cicero at the time their parents had been gunned down, and during the time of the murder -- a friend of theirs had written them a letter offering them an apartment and not worry about the rent because they were doing it as a favor to their parents, Christina and Joseph Richards, who died October 30, 1985, while Althea was 14. They were living there at the time, and the parents of their best friend, who had been my uncle, Isaac Cicerione. Isaac had promised to take care of the three of them to their grandmother while their funeral was in Oakwood Cemetery in Joliet, Illinois.
    I had also known the friend that offered them the apartment in Charles City because they were relatives to my pen pal, Theo Wolfe. I had written Theo about what had happened to my best friend�s parents as well as what Victor had done to someone that was from a rival gang. I had seen what Victor kept in his room, he had paintings that were done by the serial killer John Wayne Gacy. He and one of his friends had gone downstate Illinois to the site where Gacy had been executed and went through the paintings that were getting tossed into the fire -- and caught one of the paintings in mid air.
    The one that he had managed to saved was John Wayne Gacy�s self portrait in the foreground and a skull in the background -- an eerie reminder of the mother fucker that kept a cemetery beneath his home in Des Plaines, Illinois, during the mid and early 1970s. At the time that Victor went down, he had a grisly collection of trophies that he found from homicides -- he even kept bottle that contained a stillborn infant that was ripped out of a chest of a teenage girl. The middle school social worker managed to get a photo of the dark gallery that Victor accumulated -- this collection had given the teachers nightmares for months at a time, and later they found out that the Dean of the middle school had mystiously disappeared.
    The dean, Holly King, had disappeared from trace and was gone for a good four weeks only be found hanging from the courtyard of Joliet High School. The police had found her unconcious, near comatose -- she was hanging from of the hallways of the courtyard bound with a sheet as a mummy in Egypt. She was wrapped up to the neck, and some might had used some nitrous oxide to render her into a sleeping state. Someone had said a friend of Victor�s had did the sinister prank, but they were unable to prove it until the end of the year -- and they were unable to awaken Holly because of the strong enough dose of the nitrous oxide. She was dressed in a long blue dress and black blouse -- they bound her using the sheet and some duct tape. A picture of the harrowing crime was taken by my older brother who worked as a crime photographer. They were not able to free her up because the kidnappers has also used a chain with a heavy padlock in which she was hanging from. They had found out later her feet had been bound with a rope and a 24 lb. cement weight. My brother and his writer friend, Nicholaus Allen Pacione, had found a friend of Nik�s bound in a similar fashion in a hotel near Joliet Union Station. Detective Thomas Young had thought that the pair were connected, but this time around Holly had substained a few torn ligaments from the way that the tormenter had left her hanging from the structure.
   �All right, I contacted the Glendale Heights Department, and I notified your brother, Xiaver. I know that you know Victor, and we suspect members of his gang doing this because Holly had given one of them an out of school suspendsion because one of them had placed a human spleen on her desk. We couldn�t find possilbe motives, but they knew that Holly was a friend of Victor�s older sister. Xiaver, you should advise your friend to move because this is getting a little too grotesque to describe -- I will be keeping in touch with all of you. I am saying this as a friend of your family X. Be careful,� Dt. Young stated.
   �I know that Steve is going to college at University Northern Iowa, and I have a brother that is a landlord -- I make all the arrangements for his older sister and younger brother, Victor, are well taken care of. The apartments are in Charles City, Iowa. Just to tell you right now, it will not be at all like it is in either Glendale Heights or Joliet. Everyone there would want to get to what everyone else�s business -- it is how it is in a small town or anywhere in that area of Iowa. I got a van that they can use and they can send me an email when they are over there. I have a friend that is also a police officer in Mason City, but studied with officers from Glendale Heights, Illinois, and with officers in Des Moines.�
    �All right, I will pass the message along to Stephen. It might do his sister some good, but her younger brother will be a different story because he is a member of a street gang from Joliet. I know how people from Iowa take to people from places as Chicago or Joliet; no too likely because of the horror stories that would follow them from the larger cities. Waterloo is on the same lines at either Schamburg or Naperville because it is a college town,� Xiaver answered, �I spent two weeks in Osage, and hated it.� Young laughed at my remark, �I know, I hear you because of your upbringing in Elgin and Aurora. But I am just suggesting it for the safety of Althea.�
    It was on October 21, 1998, when Althea and Victor made the move to Charles City, Iowa. When Victor started the first day at the new high school they found out that Victor had brought a .22 pistol to class and later killed the homeroom teacher. When the rest of the town had discovered what had happened, they did not call the police because they remembered what they used to do to escapees -- they would have lines of ropes dangling beneath the bridge of the Cedar River and they would pull them up and place them around the necks of the escapees, which were usually child molesters and murderers who would murder their victims in a nature that cannot be described.
   They had found the homeroom teacher dead -- she had been shot in the mouth, and her eyes had been carved out of her head as a ghastly souvenir of what he had did. They had been cursed with horror that was born in places like Chicago or Minneapolis, only jus this is more disturbing because the murder had been similar to the nature of Richard Ramerez the drifting serial killer of suburban Los Angles. The crimes had been connected to the torturing of the dean, Holly King, and Nicholaus� friend who came into Joliet from Seattle, Washington to investegate some bizarre homicides that happened in Du Page County. The Du Page horror had started all over again, but this time in middle of rural Charles City, Iowa.
   The police from Floyd County had obtained search warrent and they could not fathom the things that Victor had kept in his room. The things that they had seen had left a real horrid picture in their mind as something that would be similar to the things that Milwaukee police department had found in the apartment of Jeffery Dahmer or the house of the Ed Gein in Plainfield, Wisconsin. They were trying to hold back the judgements that they had of Victor Richards being only a scant 16 year old from the city.
    They though that he was a meek kid, but what they had seen in his room was a different story because they had found papers that he had written about kidnapping Holly King, the Dean from the middle school in Joliet. The details that they found from the paper is something that someone from the inside will only know. The grisly details of slicing her wrists and killing her younger sister because she would have sex with his other gang members -- they killed her sister as they were covering King�s mouth with the chloroform soaked rag. They made her watch as they fucked her murdered sister. They were fucking her sister, Alexia, as she slowly bled to death and they countinued to defile her as she was dead. The police in Joliet had later found this out after Victor moved to Iowa. At the time of the murder -- they were figuring that the rape happened after she was killed because some of the members were into necrophilia. They spared Holly but only after Holly was dehumanized, she had to take a leave of absence because of the nightmares that had haunted her about seeing her sister die in that harrowing nature.
    They had found details of that written in a journal that Victor kept on a computer disc in his room, it was on a disc that belonged to an old Apple II e, nothing more than a glorified typewriter. They could not believe that Victor had kept a record of the crimes, the gang members had called him the recorder and they gave him a hand held tape recorder so he can record the screams from Holly King�s younger sister, who was only fifteen years old at the time of the rape, and the torturing of Holly King. They had later found out that a friend of Victor�s from Carol Stream had came into Charles City to �take care some business� because someone from Britt had raped his twin sister. He drove to Britt, finding the girl that was murdered -- then proceeded to fuck her long after she had been killed.
   As they went to find Victor for questioning of the homicide of the teacher, Karren Blankenship, 42, originally from Floyd, Iowa. They were frightened because Victor had became similar to how Charles Manson in Los Angles worked. In his room were letters that he recieved from Manson himself while Victor was living in Joliet -- the Cicero Homocide Unit had wanted him for the questioning about the drive by shooting of his parents, Christina Richards, 31, and Joseph Richards, 40, because one of his would be gang buddies had apparently pulled the trigger to kill them both.
    Althea had been willing to turn her own brother in, but not before she recieved a violent blow to her skull in the same fashion that Nicholaus Pacione did while he was staying in Mason City, Iowa, for a month while investegating the kidnapping of a newsanchor from there. The person that assaulted him was related to the attacker of Althea Richards. They said that Nik had known too much about the harrowing secrets that were in Mason City, which they had tried very hard to hide away. Althea gave the description of her attacker whom had be the very same that had attack Pacione. Althea was laid up for about 42 days because the attacker had buried a stiletto in her stomach -- it had killed one of her unborn children, indenical twins. She was eight months along in her pregancy; she named the dead one Christopher -- the father had killed himself because he was Holly King�s second cousin; couldn�t handle the fact that Holly�s sister Nickoletta, was raped the way she was after being murdered with a tire iron -- they used the tire iron as some kind of perverse sexual object, and sodomized her using it.
    Victor had stolen the crime scene photos and then used them to make kind of a perverse, nightmarish photo album -- the pictures included the first victim, a 10 year old boy that he disemboweled and dismembered. He took the pictures using a video camera, recording the pleading cries of his first victim, Thomas Phillips Burton. The police at the time didn�t have enough edividence to convict him, and they were in denial that someone that age could calculate something that evil -- stabbing him as the other members of the gang would videotape the horror that would become a perverse trophy. An addition to the museum that he had accumilated, and the videotape that he made of the attack of Holly King had made the next addition to his depraved library.
   While the police were searching for him, one of the officers had been found in a cornfeild -- she was laying face up in the open air, her eyes were wide open but there wasn�t a single sign of life that showed that whe was still alive. Her face was a bluish white in color, as she had been strangld to to death with her own tie -- they went back to Victor�s room except when they got there, Victor was there. His feet were dangling in the air and his chect was exposed where he carved a message into his own chest -- the words were �Political Piggy. �
    They were forced to close the case because their suspect had made an addition to his grisly library because he had left a videotape recorder going while he proceeded to hang himself. The videotape was a grisly reminder that he had told the police that they were not able to stop him from creating a museum of that would create nightmares that would invoke the minds that would walk into a community that was submerged with their innocence. There that he said in the video saying that he was an artist -- using the means of his gang membership to find his victims or �subjects� as he would call them for his collection of nightmares recorded on videotape. They kept everything for evidence, but they asked Holly King if she wanted the videos so she can burn them; she told them to destroy them over there because she didn�t want to see her sister�s last hours because she already bares the anathema -- nine months pregant with baby of the one that had dehumanized. She could not get an abortion, but after the child was born -- she was forced to keep the truth a secret from what had happened in Joliet, the nightmares born of the anathema.