Girl, Alone by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Published: 2020-12-16T08:00:00+00:00

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Judging by what they’d seen so far, Clyde Harmen’s house was like a museum for the grotesque.

Clyde was taken back to the precinct to await questioning. Meanwhile, Ella, Ripley, and Harris used the opportunity to scour his home from top to bottom.

“Fake?” Ella asked. “How can you tell?”

“The texture is completely different, and there’s a hollow section where there should be solid bone. It’s nowhere near heavy enough, either. When you’ve seen as many autopsies as I have, you know what a human skull looks like.”

She didn’t try to hide her frustration, but even with this revelation, Ella knew that it didn’t mean Clyde Harmen was innocent. If he had a penchant for this kind of imagery, his capacity for morbid activity might go further still.

“So it’s not the remains of a new victim,” Ella conceded, “but he could still be our unsub, surely? He attacked me with a saw, for God’s sake.”

Ripley pursed her lips together as she fiddled around on the wall for a light switch. “Put it this way, this guy definitely has something to hide. What that is, I’m not sure yet, but chances are this house will tell us.”

She found it. A dim orange glow was cast over the room, and what appeared was like something they’d never seen before. So far, they’d only seen Clyde’s bizarre creations through the lens of darkness, but bathed in light, they took on a new life entirely.

“Well, I’ll be dipped in shit,” said Harris. “What in God’s name is all of this?”

They were in the living room. The first thing Ella’s eyes were drawn to was a squirrel standing on the table beside her, but it was by no means a normal squirrel. Bat wings had been sewn into its back and nails circled around his head like a crown of thorns. Up above her on a shelf was some kind of elongated vermin creature with ten legs, stitched together from the corpses of multiple rats. A giant tarantula sat beside it, but in place of its beady eyes was what looked like a single human eyeball.

“Taxidermy. Like you’ve never seen before,” said Ripley.

Harris turned and spotted the stuffed tarantula. He jumped back in shock. “Jesus wept. Those things make me itch.” He moved away from it. “I can’t believe someone this insane lives in my town, but I have to say, all of this makes a pretty good case for this being our guy.”

Ella picked up the tiny bones she accidentally stepped on before she found Clyde. She held a curved bone which resembled a human rib and took it back to Ripley and Harris.

“What do you make of this?”

Harris took it from her and inspected it. “Alligator bone. Looks like it’s from a baby croc. They wash up on the shore all the time.”

Ella was both relieved and disheartened at the same time, but if this house proved one thing it was that Clyde Harmen was severely disturbed. There was every possibility that experimentation with animal carcasses was a steppingstone to human slaughter.

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