Charlotte Steel

Black-Eyed Susan Charlotte Steel

The night had dawned in the sky of Valbridge, Washington, but no star shined, as the heavy shower poured down the Pacific Northwest city since earlier this morning. It was quarter to midnight but a young detective Jenny Whitfield remained to stay at her office to finish the report of her recent case, as usual. She had been dealing with a theft and drug-related murder case that took three lives, including a stillborn. The perpetrator, Liam Stutter, was a twenty-one year old boy who killed his three years younger expecting girlfriend and her mother. The high school dropout was high when he got in a dispute with Alexandra Burrows, who accused him of cheating. He soon grabbed a knife in the kitchen and stabbed her to death... seventeen times. Her mother, who witnessed the situation, screamed and tried to call 911, but it was too late as her body was found lying next to her teenage daughter. The mom had less wounds, two stabs right through her heart...