I’ve been getting almost upset at this story arc— the child was found in a forest fire, has a desperate need to bond to strangers calling them “mom” and “dad” while not showing an inkling of missing his real parent(s), an evil gubberment “agency” comes to aid and finds the child in the company of a very angry bear, returns to save the child from said bear and are duped as they are the “bad guys”, and it’s all hugs and giggle time that the child has been hiding away. The bear and the ranger have not mentioned any concern about trying to reunite the boy with his family, but rather want to keep him. This is kidnapping, pure and simple.
Little did Cynthia, the blind-blonde lady know, but she just invited “The Gasoline Alley Strangler” into her house.
She would be identified only by reconstructing what was left of her lower jaw for dental records.
While this certainly was not The Strangler’s first victim, this particular killing was the first known time where he left his trademark calling card— her entrails were pulled out and were arranged to form words in crude cursive script:
“What’s happening?”
Forensic analysis of the viscera led investigators to believe that the victim was alive for at least fifteen minutes after her internals were externally arranged.
After The Strangler died by suicide, his lengthy journals indicated that he was about to turn himself in to the authorities just prior to meeting Cynthia. Her naïve dinner invitation offered him a setting that he could not refuse, resulting in the future deaths and evisceration of dozens of known victims.
Who knows how many innocent victims, families, and communities would be saved from The Strangler’s insane slaughter if Cynthia had not invited him into her home that one fateful afternoon.
This child has been separated from his parents for days now, is happy as a clam, and constantly calls the bear and ranger “dad” and “mom”.
Does anyone else find this rather creepy?