WEBVTT - Chapter 3: What Can You Tell Me About Charlotte? 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:16.520 You were listening to Strawberry Spring, based on a short 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:39.320 story by Stephen King m Rachel, Are you here, hey, honey? 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.599 At an early class I didn't want to wake you. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.400 I love you, ensue you. Tonight, I was staring in 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.680 the mirror. My face looked like someone stretched it out 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.120 on a drying rack. I tried combing my hair with 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.200 both hands, but that never really works. Prying my tongue 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.560 from the roof of my mouth made me feel like 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.080 there was a plantations were the cotton absorbing all my saliva. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.160 All in all, I felt like I had the world's 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.880 worst hangover, but I didn't get to have the fun 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.279 part of actually getting drunk. A cold shower usually wakes 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.800 me up. I should have been used to it by now, 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:21.480 the migraine hangover. But some things you never get used to, 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.000 Like murder. I kept thinking about Amma Laura, a student 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.920 that worked the grinder by day, a violent killer by night, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.039 or in his case, also worked at the grinder by night. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.000 It just didn't make sense to me. If it was 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.800 a simple lover's quarrel, I get it, he lost this temper. 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:45.480 He killed her, but to cut her up it just 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:57.840 didn't fit. DJ Kevin Hargan here. It's I don't know 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.880 about you and New Sharon, but after the winter we 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.520 just had I don't think anyone within the sound of 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.360 my voice wishes it would rain. I have a better idea. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.640 I'm going to end the show with a track by Maryland. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.640 I didn't oversleep often, but I was running a bit late. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:21.079 That's when Anne called me. Hello, Oh good, you're still there. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:25.200 What's up? Heard? What? He He killed another one? Wait? 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.800 Who killed another one? What are you talking about? They 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.240 had to let him go. Wait, slowed down for a minute. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.880 Start from the beginning, Laura. They had to let him go. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.040 He was sitting in a jail still last night when 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.960 it happened. When what happened? Another murder? The guy killed 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.799 somebody else last night. M Laura had an air tight 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.400 alibi since he was in custody, so it can't beat him. 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.960 Now they're looking all over for it. For what her head? 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.960 Whoever killed her took her head? Oh my god, I 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.600 know right, this isn't over. It's just the beginning. How 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.359 soon can you meet me at the time I'll leave 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:07.760 right now. Excuse me, part of me. New Sharon isn't 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.640 a big school now and back in n it was 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.040 even smaller, the kind of school people referred to as 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:18.400 a liberal arts college. It was a tight knit community, 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.919 at least in those days. Between you and your friends, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.919 you probably had at least some passing acquaintance with everyone, 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.919 or at least one of their friends. That's what made 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.960 it so hard to believe. I bobbed and weaved my 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.960 way across campus, and every person I passed looked at 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.320 me with suspicion. I looked back at them the same way. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:42.320 Someone on campus killed two women. Who why? Those were 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:46.840 the questions, but getting the answers just became infinitely more difficult. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.960 When I got to the Times, the place was buzzing 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.880 with activity. We were the epicenter of something horrible. I 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.960 found Anne locked away in her office. She was tacking 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.600 up a picture of Gail Kerman on a court word. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.880 Next to her was a new face, a face that 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:12.280 I'm sad to say I recognized. Oh no, Charlotte Foster. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.560 You knew her, I did. I mean, I'd seen her 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.839 around eye classes with her over the years. I know 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.920 Rachel would hang out with her from time to time, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.239 but not lately. Because you hand me some push pens 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.520 here you go. They look a little bit alike. Don't 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.800 you think it's hard to say cute, dirty blonde? Other 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.719 than that, I'm not sure. How do you want to 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:38.159 handle this. We need to write something about her. I 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.200 want to make sure it's not some faceless eulogy. We 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:42.960 need to make her a person. We need to make 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.720 sure when people read about her, they know her, they care. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.200 It's the only way this thing is going to stop. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.640 Whoever is doing this needs to see these women as 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:55.320 real people understood. I get it. You want me to 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:59.080 humanize her. Let me talk to a few people. Get 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.000 a snapshot of who she was in what made her 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:07.040 take Henry? Yeah, I knew her too. Make it more 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.880 than a snapshot, Make it a full picture. I don't 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.720 want her to be remembered for being murdered. I want 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:16.240 her to be remembered for being alive, not for being died. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.719 Bring it back to life with your words. I will. 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.120 It's at least I can do. I'll start at the sorority. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.760 I'm sure her sisters will be helpful. I was never 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.640 part of the fraternity system at New Sharon. It wasn't 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:36.400 really for me. I was happy to find a few friends, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:40.080 grab some beers and get good grades. I didn't have 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:45.159 anything against him, but coming from an orphanage after my 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.040 mother and brother died, I felt like I had to 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.719 grow up pretty fast. I didn't have time for the 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.440 toga parties and campus white pranks. I wanted to put 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.839 the past behind me and get started with my own life. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.480 Once I've met Rachel, all bets were off. I dreaded 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.840 telling her about Charlotte. She was one of those friends 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.440 of a friend everyone has in college. I stood outside 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:12.359 Charlotte Foster, a Scama Phi Beta sorority house. The front 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.000 steps were littered with flowers, candles, and a makeshift shrine. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.840 I could barely make my way up the front steps. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.599 It was like a memorial service had already taken place. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.679 It seemed pretty ironic to think about writing a story 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.279 that brought her to life when the most significant story 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:33.279 I would ever write wasn't about people's lives, but about 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:40.680 their deaths. Hi. Can I help you? Hi? I'm Henry 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:45.000 Dinnon with the school paper I was. I was hoping 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.719 I could talk to you about Charlotte Foster. We want 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.480 to do a store on her so people can get 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.320 to know who she was a little better. Oh, oh, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.760 I told you. Um, we had an art history class together. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.920 Come on in you Is this the most recent picture 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:07.400 of everyone Gamma Phi. Yeah, it was from my Christmas pageant. 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:13.200 That's the last picture of everyone together. Mhm. What can 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.960 you tell me about Charlotte that I might not already know? 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.480 Did you know her? I did a little. We had 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:24.120 some classes freshman year nights here around. From time to time. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.160 My girlfriend hung out with her a bit. Freshman year. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.320 They went to a few sit ins. Do you mind 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.360 if we hang out in the parlor? No, not at all. 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:42.960 It's quiet. You're the only one here. Yeah. Most of 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.080 the girls of classes or are studying for mid terms 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:51.040 at the library. I have afternoon classes today, so I 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.840 guess you got lucky I was here. I appreciate your 0:07:53.880 --> 0:08:04.680 talking to me. Charlotte was She was the best I 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.880 know when something happens to people, everyone says that, but 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:13.080 it's true. She was pretty. Did you know she was 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.320 the first runner up in the Miss New England pageant 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.960 last year? No idea. Now she was hoping to win 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:23.480 some scholarship money to pay for school. What's this picture from? 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.760 That's from the fourth of July talent show. I guess 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:33.000 that explains the flaming baton. Yeah, Charlotte twirled that while 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.760 singing Hey look me over. It was like a vaudeville 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.760 kind of thing. She was a really good singer. She 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.400 was a member of the Dramatic Society. Did you ever 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.400 see her in the school plays? I know school paper 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.880 reviewed them. No, we have a film and theater critic 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.079 that covers those. She was great. Wait here, I'll find 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.280 some of the clippings. Oh, it's no problem, I'll get 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.320 those from the archives. It won't take an it'll be 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.079 right back. I didn't know how to tell her I 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.400 probably had enough. There was so much sadness in her eyes. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.360 Even though she lived in a house full of girls, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.440 at that moment, she was lonely. At least I could 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.760 do was humor and hang around for a few minutes. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.120 I could hang around all day. It wouldn't change anything. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:25.600 I couldn't bring her back age. Thanks, there's a lot 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.840 of clippings here. Do you mind if I take them 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.720 with me to read later? As long as you promised 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.360 to bring them back, I want to make sure they 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.080 stay with the sorority history books. I promise, And thanks 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.559 for taking the time. Can I ask you a question. Sure, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:48.000 why would why would somebody do this to her? It 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:54.520 doesn't make any sense. You're right, it doesn't make any sense. 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.520 Because I stood there, leaning on the door frame, I 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:04.080 looked at round the sorority house was pictured perfect. Nothing 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.319 was out of place, just like the rest of New 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.400 Sharon College. Everything on the surface looked like it was 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.319 supposed to until he showed up. Then nothing never looked 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:18.280 the same again. I suddenly saw things differently. The pristine 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.440 Victorian sorority house had small cracks in the paint. The 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.440 veneer was showing its age. Years of use had chipped 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.400 the front tiles on the walk away. But most obvious 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.040 was the girl standing right in front of me. It 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.079 was her vaneer, one that had never faced something so real. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.600 Somebody didn't just crack her surface. Cracks can be filled 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.480 and fixed spring heeled jack brokers permanently. I didn't have 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.080 an answer for I doubted anyone ever would. I figured 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.360 if I could at least do my pardon, write a 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.520 nice story to remember Charlotte Foster, then maybe that would help. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:02.240 Charlotte Foster, President of the Gamma Phi Batis Sorority. Charlotte Foster, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:11.760 aspiring an actress, Charlotte Foster, all around nice person, Charlotte 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:31.000 Foster dead MH. I walked my afternoon classes like everyone else. 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:37.080 I nodded to the people I knew, Hey, how are you? 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.680 I said, high, with a little more force than usual, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.120 as if that would make up for the way I 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.160 was staring people down, studying their faces, looking for a sign, 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:55.240 until there was someone dark among us, now a killer. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.080 People would make eye contact with just as quickly avert 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:02.440 their gaze. They say, the eyes are the window to 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.720 the soul. But what if you don't want to see 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.120 the inside. What if what you see is so dark, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.679 so disturbing, that you have to look away, as if 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.840 there is no other reason than to save yourself. I 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:26.240 decided to make a quick detour. I saw where Gale 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.600 was murdered. I figured I should see where Charlotte was too. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.520 Nothing prepares you for death. The aftermath isn't much better. 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:39.839 As I walked up to where they found the body, 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.000 at least part of it, I could see the police 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:46.480 try to make it go away. But overnight the blood 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.440 mixed with some of the melted snow and then froze again. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.680 Pink swirls of blood clouded in the frozen streams against 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.920 milky patches of white. It was more like an art 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.760 project than a murder scene. It was like Salvador Dolly 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.600 stopped by for surreal art exhibit the Persistence of Charlotte Foster. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.320 I stood there for a few minutes, wondering what had 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.720 to happen to push someone so far that they'd be 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:26.600 willing to take someone else's life. Henry, you're not gonna 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.400 believe this ship. Kevin, what are you doing here staying 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.959 on top of current events? Uh? Fine? What'd you hear? 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.319 I heard Captain Spencer called Dean Edwards. Not only did 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.840 they have to release m Laura, they don't have any 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:46.760 suspects at all. Wait, not one nobody. They're freaking out now. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.800 There's talk about the Zodiac murders and them wondering if 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.760 that could be the same person. But they think there's 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.880 a serial killer, wouldn't you? There's two dead girls now, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.839 I know it's just what I haven't had a chance 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:04.600 to consider it yet. Well you should consider it a ship. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.280 I see Anne coming. She hates when I hang around 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.160 here looking for in Hey, if she asks, I was 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.640 never here. See you later. Who was that h oh, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.640 no one. Uh, just some guy asking for directions to 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.920 the com I just got off the phone from Adman. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.560 He want us to put new kirkw restrictions on the 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.400 front page tomorrow. What nine o'clock at night, No if 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.760 and or bus. They're going to lockdown campus and try 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.320 and stop anyone from getting hurt. You guys, check it out. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:40.080 Cops are already all over campus. Read the ship. He'd 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.480 show up now? Why can't they be here to catch 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.360 the guy instead? They just want to stop everyone from 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:50.040 having freedom. That's a lot of cops. Someone get pictures 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.920 of this. We need a shot to go with the 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.760 headline that two girls are dead and the police have 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:58.880 no leads. After the craziness died down, I met Rachel 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:02.840 at her place. With the nine o'clock curfew on the horizon, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:11.680 it seemed like the best option. Thanks, thanks for spending 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.080 the name. If there's one thing you don't have to 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:19.240 thank me for, it's for spending the night with you. Funny, 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.440 but I'm serious. Just still a killer out there, and 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.280 I feel a lot better knowing you're here with me. Hey, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:31.200 I'm sorry about Charlotte. I know you guys were friends. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.360 That's crazy. How a minute you don't think of someone, 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.160 and a minute later they're all you can think about. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.560 I get it. This whole thing keeps bringing back memories 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:47.520 of my mom. It has to be hard. Was she 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.720 like you never really talk about her. She was pretty, 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.320 she had blonde hair, it was shoulder length. She was good. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.920 She was good mom. My dad left for Korean fifty two, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.920 and I remember because we were watching Superman on TV. 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.800 I was only six, my brother was three. I don't 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.840 remember that much about what happened. Only one night. We're 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.360 sitting in the kitchen eating TV dinners, and then there 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.840 was a knock at the door. There were these army 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.040 officers in uniform. They handed my mom a letter and 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.000 the next thing I knew she was on the ground crime. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.720 So is about your father? Yeah, he was killed in Korea. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.120 They never sent his remains back. All I have from 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.280 him as his hat. But after that happened, I remember 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.680 my mom was like a dad. She went to the 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.720 Little League games and helped with our homework. I mean, 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.560 my grandparents helped out whenever they could, but every once 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.720 in a while, but she would have too much to drink. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.400 And I think it was just the pressure of raising 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.160 two boys. I mean, look, we probably weren't the easiest 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.960 to deal with. Must have been hard. Look, I'm sure 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.200 it was, but that's no excuse. My brother was little. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.960 He didn't know any better. I would watch him after 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.080 school while she was at work. She was a damn 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.399 secretary at a bank, so it was on me to 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.920 make sure he did his homework after school. She would 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.720 be out on dates, come home late. Sometimes she forget 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.760 to make dinner. Another time she was the mother of 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.560 the year. I never knew which version was going to 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.960 be hanging around the house. To be honest, it was 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:21.159 better when it was just me and my brother, but 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:26.320 then that all changed after the accident. After that, I 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:30.119 bounced around foster homes and the orphanage for years I 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:35.639 was alone. I'm so sorry. I don't even know what 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.479 to say. You don't have to say anything. I couldn't 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.800 seem to remember too much detail until last week, But 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.320 every foster home was the same thing. I'd have a 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.000 hard time fitting and then go back to the orphanage 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.879 to wait and see if I could be adopted. Didn't 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.840 help to keep changing schools. It's not that I was rebellious. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.840 I think I was just angry. You were confused. You 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:03.120 had every right be It's not the same thing, but 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.160 growing up black in the South and then coming here, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.840 there are hardly any black people in New England, especially 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:15.159 at the school. I could have stayed at home and 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.320 went to Howard, but I wanted to change. I try 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.120 to get away from home. I'm the first kid, let 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.760 alone woman, for my family to go to college. I 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:33.320 just need to change the scenery. Well, you sure got one. 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:36.720 I was just happy to find a place where I 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.439 might fit in. I wasn't. I'm sure I did until 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:46.439 I As far as I'm concerned, You'll never be alone again, 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.840 not tonight, not ever. The truth is I would have 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.640 spent the night with Rachel regardless. But she was right. 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.200 There was a killer on the loose. It didn't take 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.520 long before we were a few beers and and we 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:23.240 heard sirens. Do you think I don't know? Ye come 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.520 in Unit for Please confirm your position, Unit for copy. 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.680 We hear something coming from the trees outside the Tate 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:35.600 Alumni building and going off walking to investigate. I'll shot 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:41.199 my flashlight. You draw your weapon. I looked out the window, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.040 but with the fog, all I could see was a 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.959 red and blue glow in the distance. I saw some 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:50.200 faint shadows of who I assumed were police officers. Any 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.520 chance of finding out what happened would have to wait 0:19:52.560 --> 0:20:00.680 until morning. Are you right? Yeah, that's good something you 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.240 just turn that off? What the hell, man, what are 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.760 you doing? It just looks like we're doing. Man, we're 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.840 having some private time. You're out of the copy, get dressed, 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:21.159 you're coming with us. It wasn't until the next morning 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:23.280 I found out it was a couple of half naked 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.399 jr Is trying to get it on outside of her 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.360 dorm room. That was just the beginning of the chaos 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:37.520 the police brought with them. This is Patrol four checking in. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.080 It's two in the morning and no signs of disturbances 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.320 here on campus. Copy that patrol forward. Thanks for checking in, 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.119 maintaining your perimeter and keep us posted if you see anything. 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:51.320 How long do you think this is going to go on? 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.879 For no idea anyone knows if we ever see this 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.920 guy again. Let's head back to the car. I have 0:20:58.000 --> 0:20:59.760 a fairness flow up car, and my wife made me. 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.200 I don't know, did you read the report the stuff 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:08.399 he did to those two girls. I wonder if a 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.240 guy like that would ever stop if he doesn't get card. 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:14.040 That's where the big brands at the station to figure out. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.080 As far as I'm concerned, I'm just walking to be 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:25.000 Is that is that a body? Jesus? It is a body, 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.159 but I could barely see a thing. Hold your flashlight 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:37.040 on it. It's a male age. He's not moving. Do 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:45.200 you see anything any injuries? Pull the car around quick, 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:56.440 help me get on the tide. Let's go. Dispatcher's patrol 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.000 for heading to New Sharon Presbyterian. We have victim in 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.840 roots are riding in six minutes. Can you go any faster? 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.560 I can barely see a thing, Miss Buck, I go 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.080 any faster will be the ones they were knitting will 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:12.400 be there any second. Can you turn that siren down? 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:17.080 Jesus Christ, Jesus, Chris, Jesus married Joseph. You're alive? Yeah, man, 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:22.040 it must have passed out. And I told my frat 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:27.480 brothers that was one beer too many. Where was up? Dispatch? 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:32.720 This is patrol for false alarm. We got a kid 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.880 that had too much to drink. Hey, can you drop 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.880 me at the Alpha five house? It seemed like one 0:22:39.960 --> 0:22:43.920 misstep after another. People started to travel in small groups 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.920 that tended to break up and reform with surprising speed, 0:22:47.680 --> 0:22:50.320 Rumors spread from one end of the campus to another 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:53.640 with the speed of light. A well liked history professor 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.040 was caught in his private office having an affair with 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.879 his student. While its moral coundas was suddenly a question, 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.240 he proved to be innocent of a cold blooded burner. 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:06.280 It had been five long days since Gail Kerman's murder, 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:10.120 and back at the New Sharing Times, Anne and Chelsea 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.760 weren't faring much better. I was sitting on the edge 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:20.080 of Anne's desk when Chelsea came running in. You guys 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.640 are not going to believe this, Sorry, but just check 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:26.480 this out. I was listening to my dad last night, 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.439 just outside his office. I know that I had the 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.960 final ring in front of me, but what the hell 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.840 does it mean? And how can we be sure? He 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.040 had just gotten pictures back from the crime scene, and 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:41.760 while they were blurry, there was new information I could hear. 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.199 My dad was worried. Right, we need to keep this 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.719 out of the press. The last thing we need is 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:51.439 to start a witch hunt. We already arrested one kid 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:53.080 and had to let him go. We can't afford to 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:55.920 let that happen again. As soon as you want to sleep. 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:57.920 I sent back into his office and grabbed a file. 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:03.960 You have to open it up. These pictures, they're pretty 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:07.720 hard to make out. It's pretty dark and grainy. Here, 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:10.840 lay them out on the desk. Look at these, the 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:14.360 ones with the white greased pin. See here where circled 0:24:14.359 --> 0:24:17.240 on the ground. Let me take a closer look here, 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:20.719 use my glasses. I see a lot of blood. It's 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:24.560 so hard to make out. Is that? Yes, she wrote 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:30.200 something on the pavement. Let me see it says here too, 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:37.280 here too? What is here to mean? Chelsea? What do 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:41.040 the police think of means? They have no idea. Someone 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:43.479 thought it might be a quote from Shakespeare. It almost 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:45.520 looks like it could say where for, you know, from 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:48.639 Romeo and Juliet. I don't know's that's a bit of 0:24:48.680 --> 0:24:51.600 a stretch, but there's definitely two words there. Looks like 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:54.000 she was trying to tell us something. Sure enough, if 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:56.840 there were two words, those two words were enough to 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.840 mean something and at the same time nothing at all. 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:02.640 It was like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:05.800 without ever seeing the picture. But it didn't take long 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:09.680 for something new to come into focus. How's your story 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:12.520 on Charlotte Foster? Coming along? I'm gonna put pen to 0:25:12.520 --> 0:25:14.520 paper right now. I'll have for you by the end 0:25:14.560 --> 0:25:19.720 of the day. Yes, here's the latest on Charlotte Foster. 0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:23.160 I'm reading the paper out of Boston, so bear with me. 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.240 She was found on a soggy patch of ground, some 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:29.919 twelve feet from the nearest sidewalk. There were no footprints, 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:33.119 not even her own. These murders remind me of the 0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:38.199 infamous springheel Jack of English Folkhorn, a killer who stopped 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:41.520 the streets of London, terrorized women, A phantom with razor 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:44.760 sharp claws her hands. He could breathe fire, He was 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:48.159 so light on his feet that he never left the footprint. 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:51.320 They never caught him. And now we have our own 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:56.120 springheel Jack roaming our very own New England, murdering and 0:25:56.359 --> 0:25:59.960 terrorizing the campus of New Sharing. Did you hear me? 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:05.080 Got scooped by who? Some reporter out of Boston. Spring 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.840 heeled Jack. Yeah, they gave him a name. What the 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:12.000 hell is spring heel Jack? It turns out some reporter 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:14.479 decided to give our killer a moniker. They also got 0:26:14.520 --> 0:26:17.200 a copy of the police report. How do you think 0:26:17.359 --> 0:26:20.320 they paid someone off a story like this, someone will 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:23.240 be willing to pay for information. California has a zodiac, 0:26:23.280 --> 0:26:26.680 and I New England has spring heeled Jack, spring heeled Jack. 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:30.560 Who would have thought that they would stick? I had 0:26:30.600 --> 0:26:33.760 it back to my place. I had enough studying to do, 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:37.000 and so did Rachel. I figured I'd take the night 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:39.600 to myself and put my insomnia had a good use 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:43.440 to try and pass some classes. It was a brilliant idea, 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:48.119