Chapter 1
It was Spring time of 1995 I was 14 years old I lived in a small town of Fredricksburg Texas, a small town that not very many people have heard of. Nothing really big ever happened in the town and the closest city to us was Austin. My mother Kathy was on disability because of a heart condition, and my father David owned a shop in town. I was the oldest of three kids my younger brother Anthony age 10 and my youngest sister Sue age 7. My name is Amber Wright.
My Dads shop was two blocks away from my school so I usually just walked there right after school to help out or when it was slow I did my school work there. I didnt have many friends just a few, I was pretty shy. My hobbies were making things with my hands, taking things apart and putting them back together and learned how it worked. I also played outside with my siblings.
My family were planning a trip to Austin for a fair that was coming up in a week, I was aloud to bring one friend with me Brittany Long she was my best friend we've known eachother since we could remember. There were even times that she would walk with me to my Dads shop. Brittany and I have been talking about a boy that we had a crush on Aaron Samules.
He was in a grade higher than us he was also one of the popular guys in our school. If I wasnt so distracted with my excitement about our trip and trying to figure out how to get Aarons attention I would have noticed someone was watching me.
After school one day as usual I was about to go seperate ways from my friends. I had askex Brittany if she wanted to go with me to my Dads shop but she said she needed to head home, so we went seperate ways. I was a block away from my Dads shop when someone from behind me grabbed me theu had put something over my nose and mouth I put up a pretty good fight almost got away twice but they were stronger.
The next thing I woke up with my hands and feet bound tightly and I was gagged laying in the back seat of the car. The driver was a guy with dark brown shaggy hair. He looked like he could have been in his late 30s early 40s. He looked over and saw me awake He smiled a sinister smile that scared me. He then started tapping his finger on the steering wheel He didnt say anything.
I wanted to ask himbwhat he wanted but than remembered I was gagged. He had knotted my hands and feet together so tightly that they were starting to hurt. He kept on looking back smiling each time it felt like he was driving a long way and the only thing outside that I could see was the blue sky the sun was still high.
I tried to set up to look outside the window He saw me trying to do so pushed me back down with his one hand and said "We're not there yet Amber, almost". He knew my name, how did he know my name? He was strong, when I tried to pull away he gripped my shirt. He held me down the rest of the time he was driving I wasnt able to move even with me trying to fight him. After awhile longer he went off road then not long after that I started seeing trees non of which I recognized or looked familiar.
A few mintues later he stopped and got out of the car, I took this opportunity as quickly as I could trying to get out of the car. The back doors were childproof I leaped to the drivers side just as I opened it my body hanging half out He bends down to my face and says "my, my, arent you determined, this will be much more fun than I thought". He stands up and grabs me like a ragg doll and me trying to fight him does nothing but makes him smile.
Tall grass all around us and surrounded by trees he walks up to what looks like an abandoned shack. He sets me down on a bags of salt, I look around my new surroundings there are chains attached to the walls the walls are cement and one large knife. I see him starring at me while I observe everything, he grabs my feet I kick back trying to get loose of him.
No good with how tight he has my feet tide mix with his strength he manages to chain one foot. With my other foot free I manage to slip his grip, kick his face and groin. It happens to work briefly I take off my gag then try to loosen my arms and chained foot but before I was able to get much further he recovers quickly turns around hits me across the face hard. He grabs my other foot and chains it while he does this I scream as loud as I can. He says "No fucking point! There's noone for miles!" I reply "why do this to me?! Who are you?!"
He dosent reply he grabs my hands and chains them next even though I'm thrashing around and hitting him and screaming for him to stop. He then grabs the gagand makes it tighter then before so any attempt of me screaming makes me choke.
He then proceeds with taking my pants off then takes his pants off. He shuves himself in me hard, pounds harder and harder I'm bleeding everywhere and it hurts a lot. He then takes himself out then puts himself in my anal which hurts just as much. After a few more mintues he finishes panting. He cleanes himself off then puts his pants back on, grabs his large knife plays with it a little by flipping it out and says "To solve my cravings" then he uses the knife to start cutting me at first little cuts, then deeper cuts and each time I try to scream I choke all I can do is shack in agony.
The sun is starting to set which means my parents have been looking for me worried. Calling all my friends, walking around the town looking for me. He then starts ripping off my finger nails one at a time, then my toe nails one at a time. When he is done it is dark out, my parents have called the cops reporting me missing they took a photo of me to make have you seen me posters.
As the cops talk to my parents my siblings stand in the hallway in shock wondering if all this is for real or if I'm playing some kind of rebillion act. My brother and sister just silently listen to the cops and our parents. Once He is done he looks outside seeing its dark then says "So far all this is just the beginning. This is going to be a very long night for you".
Grabs His knife once again then starts slowly cutting off my toes and parts of my fingers. He then makes bigger gashes throughmy body to the bone and slowly brings the knife cutting up or down. He does this for half the night using rope to tighten certain parts of my body so I dont bleed out even though the salt has soaked up a good portion of my blood. Im covered in itand so is He.
Once He got bored cutting me up, He starts skinning me. Starting with my feet and sewing them back on, He does this process for the remainder of the night. My face soaked with my tears and my constent choking from my screans. Once the sun started coming up He finally stopped He only did the cutting and everything else below my kneck He did nothing to my face. He used the coming day light to see His work and He looked like a kid on Chritmas morning so happy to see His work like He did such a good job, so proud of His work.
He smiled took a moment to some water then looked at me and said "A new day. Well I'm going to go take a rest. I'll be back". He comes close to give me a kiss on my forehead as if kissing a loved one goodnight. After He left I hoped that death would come or that I'd be able to sleep into a death, or if any luck someone would gind me.
As the sun got higher it became hotter in the shack I was getting thirsty. I looked around to see if I could try to get myself loose. I played around with my hands shackles to see if I could use sweat to loosen up or to find something loose on it. No luck He had it super tight on me amd nothing loose, anything I moved below my kneck screamed of pain then I tired to loosen up the gag so I can scream for help, again no luck.
I stayed there all day long trying not to give up on finding an escape as the sun got to the highest in the sky then going down I've spent all day trying to get free even going past beyond painful limits in doing so. He comes in laughing seeing me cause He heard me trying to escape. He says "Your still alive! How wonderous! Well you made it on the news and everyone in town knows about you missing. And I also found my new target, I believe you know her Brittany Long."
The reaction on my face was exactly what He wanted He laughs and says "ah yes. I do remember you guys hanging out, but anyways that just means I'm finished with you. Though im not done yet settling my cravings. With her I will be. No worries I'll make sure they'll find your body. Thats most then what I've done to others".
He takes His knife once again comes to my face kisses my forehead and says "Its been fun, I hope with Brittany she makes it just as fun as you did or more so. She's also a little bit cuter than you are". He slits my throat than with all His strength stabs my heart and leaves the knife there.
I was choking on my own blood, my heart beating like a hammer against cloth. It didnt take long for me to die. When I felt life leaving me I wasnt scared anymore I felt relief that I was no longer there. First thing. I went straight to my family my Dad was looking at other places that I could be, he didnt believe that I was gone yet. Everyone stayed home, my mom in bed crying still, my sister playing games in her room her eyes a little red and pufft from crying, my brotger came down stairs and said he wanted to help find me. Dad wasnt sure what to say so he let my brother help him.
Then I disappeared and arrived in a very large field with a tree in the middle with bunch of girls playing or talking under the tree. I walked up to them and asked where this is and who are they? One of the blonde girls with green eyes got up and introduced herself to me " Hi! I'm Lucy Loveland this is our heaven."
I looked around and repeated her "our heaven?" She clarified " yes. We are all murdered by Paul Smithfield, the man who murdered you". As she looks down with grief. I said "wait. All of you?" I started crying and said "when did He murder you?". She replied with tears in her eyes as well "I was the first He murdered in 1967 we were both teenagers though he was a year older than me he was 14, He was a friend of mine. Then one day he stranggled me to death than out of fear He hid my body and my body was never found. Thats why all the girls here are between ages 10 to 14, He finds it thrilling to murder. And by doing so differently each time some bodies He allows to be found but most He hides them somewhere and they're never found again".
I looked around and found a lot of hapoy faces playing together and talking and laughing I counted 10 gurls in the ages she stated. I looked at her with tears still in my eyes " So he's a serial killer, killing 12 girls". Lucy looked confused "12?" I wiped my eyes and said me and my friend who he's going to kill soon. Lucy didnt say anything she hugged me is all she did, then we both look up and looked around she then said" This is our heaven, we can come and go as we please even see our family on earth and family who have passed on before us. We come here a lot so when there's a new girl here we do what we can to comfort her".
I than turned around feeling something I followed what felt wrong and the next I was in His car again back seat with Brittany tied like I was it was super late at night had to be around 2 or 3 in the morning. She had tears going down her face out of fear, He stops at a freeway side that not a lot of people drove through He gets out of the car into the trunk and pulls something out. Brittany looks out the window and freaks out the more when she sees that He pulled out my body and flings it out to the ground a few feet from the free way.
Brittany stares at my body while He comes back to the car and drives away. He drives for a few hours further to the middle of nowhere until He comes to another abandon place that looks like a small warehouse. I wanted to be there with her but couldnt bair to witness what He was going to do with her and from what He said to me most likely the same thing or somethings very similar.
I decided to go back to the heaven my body would eventually be found and Brittany will eventually be walking through that field to come join us here. Everything was completely out of my control and I was angry. He was trying to find the right time to abduct her but since my disappearance she was making sure sge wasnt alone, until she had just one slip up is all He needed. He had my body in his trunk m, he wanted her to see me, to scare her all the more which it worked He even risked getting caught cause she was by her house which other houses are near she was just taking out the trasg to the dump and thats all He needed.
I hoped with everything that she would be able to escape, but my gutt told me no. I couldnt stop thinking about it I was crying the girls around ne tried to comfort me. Lucy knew what was going on the others thought. I aas crying cause my kife was taken.
I didnt know where I wanted to be I didnt want to be here nor go home where more sadness, I walked away from the girls and some other part of the field to just be alone. Lucy filled them in when I was out of ear shot or so she thought. I didnt care.
I dont know how long I sat there by myself, I stayed there until I felt something or I saw Brittany. On earth it had to be hours but up here time did not exist. I than decided to go back to the tree and talk to some of the girls get to know them and wait that way I would know what to do next.
I started talking to this 12 year old girl named Sophie she was murdered in 1970 body never found. She was super likable she was 3 out of 5 kids she went missing the year her mom was pregnant with the youngest. She's sad that she never got to meet the youngest sibling but she knows she will one day see her family again. Sophie likes to go down to eartg to see her family and visit other family who have already passed on. She says this heaven is only a kittle bit of what we see and how its so much bigger and beautiful. I wasnt ready to see more of it though. I was still looking back.
Then the feeling came back I quickly looked back didnt see Brittany yet, so I went back to see if it was my body was found. And it was and already at the morgue my parents looked at it both crying and collapsed when they saw my body. The morgue employee gave them time, then my Dad got up looking more at my body everything, then asks what happened.
The morgue emoloyee stated what happened practically to the T of everything He did to me. The sad oart is that theu said with how clean the body was when theu found me they couldnt find any evidence or trace of who my killer was. None. The employee covered my face back up. Then my parents went back home and told my aiblings that I was found but didnt make it. My mom didnt want to go into details of what they saw. My brother who was almost 11 waited till Dad was alone then wanted the details of exactly what he saw and the details of how I was murdered then the details of what the morgue emplyee stated.
I had never seen this side to my brother before I wasnt sure what to make of it. Then my brother very angry said "Dad, I swear I'm going to become a detective when I grow up and I will find her killer. I promise this with every fiber of my being I will find him. He will pay for this."
Dads reply was simple " Anthony, that kind of vengence will not help you. Lets say one day your able to find him, than what? He goes to court gets the death sentence because who knows how many more lives he's taken, what than? For you? You carrt out you career looking for other serial killers? Is that what you decide what your career will be?"
My little brother replied "If needs be, yes" Thats all he says than walks into his room and slams the door. The next couple of days they plan my funeral and now this missing case of Brittany. Noone says it but the town fears the same fate has happened to her as it has happened to me. The town shows up to my funeral even my crush Aaron, I was touched that he paid his respects. He didnt say anything but he was also there with his family.
It was open casket my kneck down covered he sat in the chair mainly starring at me. When he saw Anthony he called Anthony over to talk alone "Dude. I'm really sorry about Amber. I cant imagine what your family is going through and now the Long family with Brittany. Did your parents tell you what happened?"
My brother knew who Anthony was its a snall town. My brother replies "My mother refused to let us see her at the morgue, but when they got back my Dad told me in details what he saw and what the morgue employee said and that there's no evidence regarding who the killer was" Anthony than continues telling Aaron details of what was told to him.
Aaron replies "makes me wish I would have known her better" my brother feeling annoyed blurts out "well wish, coulda, woulda, not like anything will bring her back. And you probably already knew this my sister had a huge crush on you, if you would have given her the time of day you wouldnt be wishing that now would you" then my brother walked away leaving Aaron speechless.
I was done with this scene people in town will eventually will hear what happened. They placed a curfew in town and the buddy system rule. Not like that matters anymore my murderer is most likely done with our town. I quickly went to my heaven to see if Brittany arrived, when I didnt see her I went to the location I last saw her its been over 72 hours was she still there?
When I went back she was and still alive I bairly recognized her. My murderer wasnt there I had no idea where He went off too. She was sleeping He had completely skinned her intire body including parts of ger face, and her scalp. Again parts of her body tightened up to prevent more blood loss. He was doing to her far more than He ever did to me. She wasnt laying down like I was, she was hanging by the chains, He had cleaned the area of her blood and cleaned parts of her as well. She looked like she was on the brink of death, but still fighting? Why? Why give Him that pleasure?
I than decided that I would try to wait here with her, if I can bair to see His face. She didnt wake up once until she heard His car coming up. Her eyes were blood shot, no tears either. Thats when I also noticed she didnt have a gag on and some of her teeth were missing as well. I was scared and startled when I saw Him I almost left but I needed to be here with her until her end.
She moaned part in agony and part in terror thats when I also realized she didnt have a tongue. I started crying for her trying to hit Him screaming at Him. I think she heard me cause she looked around to find who screamed. Then I heard Him speak "lets get some more food and water in you shall we?" She pleaded with Him to just let her die. I was a little confused on what He was doing, I knew He was torturing her but how is food and water apart of that?
I can tell that all the fight in her was gone non left. Its been over 72 hours with her what was He doing? I was there with her for a couple more days He was taking time to nourisher her back to health which took a full week. Then He tortured her more at some point in her delirium I think she saw me. Cause she looked straight at me yelling "Amber?!" Then blinked as if I had disappeared. After a week in a half of Him tourchering her He said "well my sweet. Its been fun, more so than it was with Amber. But I gotta start heading back home. So I'll finally do what you've been begging me todo".
He grabbed His knife started from her chest stabbed her than like an animal slide her all the way down. As she screamed in agony and bleed out He brings down her body takes her about 20 or so feet away from the warehouse outs her in a hole that he digged up and barries her alive.
She took her last breathes alive as he piles dirt on her. He cleans up everything and leaves it was as if He wasnt even there. Her blood soaked the dirt around her, I went back to our heaven decided to wait for her there cause she mostl likely left as soon as she was dead just as I did.
When she finally arrived I was the first to greet her she jumped and hugged me saying "I thought I saw you!" I than showed her our heaven and introduced her to Lucy.
