The Farmland Killer
by Kerrigan Rhea
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 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General
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 Oct 29, 2009
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 259
 
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Chicago's leading Homicide Detective, Judd Redding is on vacation at his birthplace of Vandalia Illinois where crime is almost non-existent.

This Chicago's leading Homicide Detective, Judd Redding is on vacation at his birthplace of Vandalia Illinois where crime is almost non-existent. This 1920's Chicago cop has been awarded numerous accommodations for solving some of the most horrendous crimes. He is deeming a hero and a legend in his hometown.



The already short-handed Fayette County Sheriff's Department, suddenly have more murders than felony crimes in the past fifty years. Redding reluctantly is recruited to assist the small department for his expertise in homicides. He is not prepared to make an arrest on the dubbed Vandalia's "Farmland Killer" just yet.



The quiet farming town has a couple of newcomers, an eyewitness, and a killer. Things become more intricate when Redding falls for Gloria St. Pierre, a wild, seductive typical 1920's flapper and witness to the murders. With the aid of Special Agent Eliot Ness, a young agent from the bureau, who helps keep Judd on track?



The French beauty is not the only distraction. Detective Redding's conservative investigation techniques are challenged while on the trail of a schizophrenic killer with multiple personalities.
 
Judd arrives on the scene soon after the sheriff. Leon had already sent the deputies and volunteer townsfolk into the woods just prior to Judd showing up at the silo.

One of the volunteers starts yelling hysterically. He ran past Deputy Benny Madilla, bumping into him while running with his hands flailing in the air, traveling the opposite direction as the rest of the men were moving into the woods.

Benny continues into the direction from where the volunteer is running from. His flash light began to dim as he approaches a gathering of foliage. The wind picks up and the brown crisp leaves swirl around the base of the trees. The undergrowth crunches with every step the deputy made.

The flashlight fades out as Benny stops to bang on it a couple of times. He gets it working just as he hears someone calling out his name. Benny turns to answer when a ray of light emits on the blood beneath the body of Wilhelmina Beaderman, just twelve inches from where he is standing.

Frozen with fright, the young deputy urinates in his pants. He barely notice the warm fluid running down his leg as it puddles on the ground, mixing with the blood that had depleted from Wilhelmina’s body.

Benny can’t move, as the beam of light is aimed on the missing woman’s mutilated torso. He hears someone calling out his name again, but is unable to speak.

She is tied to a tall maple tree, her skin is waxy looking, and pasty white as the blood still drains from her body. The sheriff and Judd then walk towards Benny, observing his statue like posture. Judd approaches Wilhelmina’s corpse, he notices she has been gutted with what appears to be a hunting knife, found sticking in the ground.

“This is a fresh kill. She hasn’t been dead but a short time, announce Judd.”

McElroy is so sinister that he didn’t use a rope to bind the waitress but came up with a more imaginative means of tying the body to the tree.

As the killer heaves Wilhelmina’s intestines out of her frail body, he wraps her entrails around her neck several times then using them to tether her remains to the frost bitten tree. Steam emits from the still warm cadaver as the evening chill set in.

About Kerrigan Rhea

 Kerrigan Rhea was born in Chicago Illinois and grew up in Loves Park, Illinois. Joined the Navy at seventeen years old and was one of the first females to go aboard ship where she served ten years in the military. A veteran police officer who was the first female to make rank as Sergeant on a southern police department.



While expanding her knowledge in the legal field, she tested for paralegal prior becoming an investigator where she works as a Criminal Defense Investigator for the past twenty years. Kerrigan Rhea most recent accomplishments are two previous published books Wake Up and Die Right and The Unwanted Souls.
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