Killer Connection

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> =><= ''KILLER CONNECTION'' by Michael Scully & Will Wharton (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[[Begin ->1.2]]]]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "What exactly is it you want, young 'un?" [[I would like to ask you some questions.->2.2]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> My name is Douglas. I am a cop, or I was a cop. I'm retired now but, during my career, I was the FBI's first criminal profiler. My job was to catch Serial Killers. [[Continue ->1.3]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> Through the young science of criminal profiling, some good luck and lots of late nights, I caught my suspects. Each one accused of a series of grisly murders. [[Continue ->1.4]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> The final challenge, was to get a confession. [[Continue ->1.5]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> 1. My first big case was in ''1957''. The suspect's name was [[BOB CULLY... ->2.0]] 2. My next high profile case came a decade later in ''1967''. The accused was named [[MATTHEW HOWLETT...->3.0]] 3. Another case rocked the world in ''1977''. The man we caught was [[JERRY WEINSTEIN...->4.0]] 4. Another case shocked us all in ''1981''. The person we nabbed was called [[HENRY HAINES...->5.0]] 5. My last case was in ''1993''. Caught at the scene was one [[JOSHUA RATCLIFFE...->6.0]] 6. I came out of retirement for a case in ''2005''. The worst killer I ever met was the infamous [[TERRENCE SLATER...->7.0]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> //Over the last four years, a series of young women have disappeared in Southern California. A total of seven victims have been identified. The women had all arrived a few weeks before they mysteriously vanished, hoping to become the next star of the silver screen. Each disappearance can be traced back to the actions of a mysterious cult known as 'The Howlett Family.' The leader of the cult, Matthew Howlett, sits in front of you now. // [[I need to ask you some questions.->3.2]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "Hello there, nice to see you. I'm Beelzebub." [[1. What did you just say?->4.2B]] [[2. That's nice.->4.2A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "What's up, buddy?" [[Hello Henry, I am here to get your confession.->5.2]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "What do you want, pig?" [[There's no need to be like that.->6.2]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> //Terrence inhales deeply through his nose.// [[After all these years, we finally meet, the TMD killer in the flesh.->7.2]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "Ask away. I ain't tellin' you nothin'." [[Why did you kill and skin these people?->2.3]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "We are all children of the one God, ask your questions and I shall tell you no lies under the true God. We are in Southern California after all. That's where the big eagles fly!" [[1. Is that why you had your cult kill those women? To help them 'fly' ?->3.3.B]] [[2. What does God say to you?->3.3.A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "First of all, it wasn't a cult. It was a family and you would never understand us. I will not say another word." [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->3.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "God speaks to us all and we do as we are told." [[Did he tell you to hurt people? ->3.4]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "I never hurt a soul." [[Don't play games with me. ->3.5]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "You like to play games, huh? Men and women play games... men and men play games... let's keep on playing this little game, Piggy. My family play their own games." [[1. They love you and listen to your voice, don't they? ->3.6.A]] [[2. You told them to kill those people, didn't you? ->3.6.B]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "You would never understand us. I will not say another word." [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again. ->3.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "They are beautiful my children and I am their father." [[And a father must instruct his children? ->3.7]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "A father teaches, a father leads, sometimes a father must discipline..." [[What else must a father do? ->3.8]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "What can I say? We're a product of the times and the times are bloodthirsty." [[You've said all you need to say. ->3.10]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Matthew Howlett" src="images/3_Charles_Manson_.gif"> "A father must punish the wicked. Those wicked women, hungry for fame and fortune. It was easy to have my children pick them up. They practically begged to be made famous. Well, we made them famous. My children cut them up so they lost all their sinful vanity, they lost it all. But what we gave them was much greater. We gave them deliverance." [[CONFESSION SECURED! Congratulations! ->3.9]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "I didn't kill or skin nobody. Unless you mean critters. But tryna unnerstand how critters work ain't illegal is it?" [[Understanding is not illegal. Tell me more. ->2.4]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "To unnerstand 'em better, I began preservin' the cat's bones, the dog's bones. Things like that. I even made an alter to all the dead critters. So they lived on. We did all kinds of sick shit, but we was never bad. Not like Momma. Sure, sometimes I remember playin gas chamber with my sister just to break up the monotony." [[1. Do you think this 'sick shit' made you kill people?->2.5.B]] [[ 2. That sounds awful, tell me more. Specifically about 'Momma'.->2.5.A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "I didn't kill nobody! Get 'outta here!" [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->2.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "I had some sexual fantasies about her. But only after she'd gone. Not before. When she was still breathin, she had nothing but contempt for me. Her only boy. What sorta' momma doesn't love her son?" [[Is that why you killed her pets?->2.6]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "Oh, Momma loved her animals. She'd always say they was her real babies. Her most special kids. So that's why I wanted to take them from her. I wanted to look inside as many animals as I could get my hands on. So killin' Momma's dog and Momma's cats, I got new subjects to look at and also I was hurtin' her without her even knowin'." [[1. But hurting wasn't enough, was it? You wanted to kill.->2.7.A]] [[2. Sometimes people deserve it, don't they?->2.7.B]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "Well one day she comes back from town, more wasted than usual. Liquoured up and fixin' for a fight. She found me as I was movin' one of my stolen graveyard vermin into my shed. She started shriekin' and hollering, worse than usual about what an awful son I was, what a disappointment I was. So I just had to make her stop yellin'..." [[So you finally killed her? ->2.8]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "My Momma deserved the best! Only the best! Get out!" [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->2.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "Well I've always been stronger than Momma. So I just picked her up like she was a newborn calf and hung her up on one of my hooks in the barn. Usually I'm usin' these hooks to let the hogs bleed out, so I can use their skin for my other objects but for Momma it was just to make her stop screaming. But she didn't stop, she didn't fall dead, I seen it in the movies, you hook or you stab someone, they fall dead, right? Doesn't work that way. Momma, well she didn't pass right away, she was leakin' to death. That's when I made the decision to, y'know, cut her down and strangle her. I said to her as I had my fingers round her throat, I says, 'This is the point where I'm gonna eat your heart Momma.' " [[CONFESSION SECURED! Congratulations!->2.9]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Bob Cully" src="images/2_Ed_Gein_.gif"> "I ain't sorry for what I did." [[You're going to fry for this.->2.10]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "I said nothing. I will say nothing. Nothing and everything." [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->4.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "It is nice. Very very nice. The Lord is nice. He is my final judge. The blood of Christ is powerful enough to wash away even my sins." [[And what are those sins?->4.3]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "I never sinned. I only did as my master wished. Because my master is my master. So the streets must be filled with my master." [[OK. Then who is your master?->4.4]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "Fuck you, pig. No be nice. The demons are protecting me. I have nothing to fear from the police. The dog, the dog has all the answers and tells them to me." [[The dog? What did the dog tell you?->4.5]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "He told me to make huge drops of lead pour down on her until she was dead. Yet the cats still came out at night to mate." [[Who are 'the cats?'->4.6]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "The cats are the sparrows and I am the messenger who delivers his message to the sparrows." [[1. Why would a messenger need a .44 Magnum for?->4.7A]] [[2. You killed the 'cats' and the 'sparrows', didn't you?->4.7B]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "Because I am on a different wavelength to everyone else. I am programmed to kill. I am the chubby behemoth and I love to hunt." [[And what was your hunt?->4.8]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "The sparrows still sing in the morning, don't they? That's all." [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->4.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "I am a little brat. When father gets drunk, he gets mean. He loves to drink blood. 'Go out and kill' he commands. So that's what I did." [[CONFESSION SECURED! Congratulations!->4.9]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Jerry Weinstein" src="images/4_Son_of_Sam_.gif"> "I promised to buy you new shoes, didn't I?" [[I have everything I need from you.->4.10]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "Of course there is! You filthy pigs, you would never have caught me if I hadn't gone out looking for some tail." [[What do you think we caught you for?->6.3]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "You know exactly what I did. Do you really need me to say it?" [[1. Yes we do.->6.4B]] [[2. I want you to tell me about your childhood. That's all.->6.4A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "Too bad, pig! Oink Oink! Go back to the farm!" [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->6.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "Well when you are born on the streets like I was, you know where to hide, where to look and more importantly where to hunt. I didn't have much of a choice. It wasn't an elective study. Besides, you get to know the underbelly of the city pretty well when you're mother is a lady of the night, a whore." [[She left you to raise yourself?->6.5]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "I had to. You don't understand. People out there... they're sick. Especially when it comes to young boys. They're depraved..." [[So you were just 'defending' yourself from those young women you killed? Is that it?->6.6]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "Those sluts you mean? Those whores? So what? They were just trash. Trash like me. Any city where you have prostitution, runaways, throwaways is fertile ground for trash to build up. Somebody has to take it out." [[1. So you admit you killed them?->6.7B]] [[2. What happens to the trash when you take it out?->6.7A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "I admit that you're a filthy pig! Squeal piggy!" [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->6.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "I would look for whores and then I would take them home. Chop them up, take their teeth and take their fingers. I'd squeeze their little heads into paint cans then dump 'em in the river. Much like cigarettes, it becomes an addiction. Like all addictions, you're constantly craving something harder. The first time WAS a shock for me, just not enough for me to quit..." [[CONFESSION SECURED! Congratulations!->6.8]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "I was pretty successful, yes. Ninety-nine percent of the time..." [[What about the other one percent?->6.9]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Joshua Ratcliffe" src="images/6_Joel_Rifkin_.gif"> "The one percent? The one percent isn't even worth talking about. The one percent is worth forgetting about." [[Let's see if the judge agrees.->6.10]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "Confession for what? You've been fed many lies about me, my friend. I am a record producer, wrongly accused." [[1. You picked up and killed all those poor kids.->5.3B]] [[2. What sort of music do you produce?->5.3A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "You're racist. You're ignorant. We're done here." [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->5.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "All sorts, anything that moves people. Anything that helps people to reach their music potential." [[What does music potential mean?->5.4]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "It means just that: people have music inside them and I have ways of bringing it out." [[How exactly did you do that?->5.5]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "I would just get them in the studio and let them pour their heart out. Get them to show me their soul. Then the music would come." [[Did you do anything other than that?->5.6]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "Yeah sometimes we would joke around, have a drink. Maybe a bit more." [[A bit more?->5.7]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "Well I am an attractive guy and they were attractive guys. You know what I mean." [[1. You mean you had sex with them.->5.8B]] [[2. What else is an attractive guy to do?->5.8A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "I don't know anything about that. I'm a record producer. End of story." [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->5.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "I HAD to shut them up to protect my reputation. After we... after we had... I couldn't have them out there telling people. I shut their mouths forever." [[CONFESSION SECURED! Congratulations!What did you just say?->5.9]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Henry Haines" src="images/5_Wayne_Williams_.gif"> "You can't tell anyone why I did it. I have to protect my reputation." [[Your reputation is the least of your worries. ->5.10]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> //Terrence inhales deeply through his nose.// [[What if we talked about your family, TMD?->7.3]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "Don't call me that! And don't bring my wife and daughter into this! They had no idea I was -" [[No idea you were... what?->7.4]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "They had no idea about any of it! They thought I was just a regular technician and dog catcher. Except that time my wife caught me..." [[What did she catch you doing?->7.5]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "She caught me tied up and choking myself during one of my 'party' weekends... I never meant for her to find me. I thought she was still away but she came home early." [[But somehow your marriage survived over twenty years. How did you manage that?->7.6]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "I’m not saying it was ‘Leave It To Beaver’. I’m not even sure a home like that exists. But we were man and wife and nothing else. She never had anything to do with my 'projects'." [[1. She was your accomplice in the murders, wasn't she?->7.7A]] [[2. I believe you.->7.7B]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "No! It was all me. I had many, what I would call 'projects'. People I was following around. After finishing the stalking stage, I broke into their homes, I cut the phone cords, I opened the windows and I let myself back in when they were asleep. Sometimes it was quick. Sometimes it went sideways." [[1. What did you do when it went sideways?->7.8B]] [[2. *Remain silent*->7.8A]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> //Terrence inhales deeply through his nose and speaks no more.// [[That's not how I remember it. Let's start again.->7.1]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "Once, a whole family went panic on me and I had to deal with them all. After the first time, I knew I’d be doing this forever. I loved killing them. I would tie them up, just like I did to myself. I would then get my rocks off and they would die knowing their death had given me pleasure" [[CONFESSION SECURED! Congratulations!->7.9]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="Terrence Slater" src="images/7_BTK_.gif"> "There’s always a bad man. You can’t get rid of him. I keep him behind a door somewhere until he's needed. But that's my business. Only me. My wife and daughter deserve to be OK. They did nothing wrong." [[They were also your victims, just a different kind. Your actions have ruined their lives. ->7.10]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> That's it, every last horrible one of them. My career has been filled with the some of the most depraved cases in US history, I looked into the eyes and minds of the most evil men imaginable. But what haunts me still is all the ones I didn't catch. The ones that are still out there... =><= [[The End ->ENDING 2]] ]

(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> =><= KILLER CONNECTION Thanks for playing! =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Play again?->1.1]] ]

[ =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Bob Cully->2.1]] Wisconsin, 1957 ]

[ =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Matthew Howlett->3.1]] Southern California, 1967 ]

[ =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Henry Haines->5.1]] Georgia, 1981 ]

[ =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Jerry Weinstein->4.1]] New York, 1977 ]

[ =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Joshua Ratcliffe->6.1]] New York, 1993 ]

[ =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Terrence Slater->7.1]] Kansas, 2005 ]

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(font:"Arial")[ <img alt="" src="images/"> =><= CASE CLOSED =><= (text-style: "fade-in-out")[[Continue->ENDING 1]] ]