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The medallion (Story)

joseph1956Posted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago4 min read

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The lady murdered on a dark street in the city has an object that Detective Sarmientos has already seen on other occasions.

It is a heart-shaped medallion similar to the one worn by three other victims in the last 4 months, so her instinct tells her that there is a serial killer roaming the city.

However, he does not communicate his suspicions to his colleagues or superiors, but rather initiates an investigation into the four women.

He does not discover anything that connects them, so he concludes that chance is the method used by the criminal but there is another detail that does not fit in their initial impression, the method with which they were killed is completely different.

For a psychopath these small details surpass his capacity reason why the intrigue grows and is exacerbated when a victim appears in the beach, but unlike the others it does not have traces of having been murdered but that apparently died of another motive.

The coroner's report indicates that she suffered a cardiac arrest possibly caused by a strong fright.

In the contact with the relatives of the deceased corroborates that none had any bond of friendship between them but discovers that the medallion has been purchased in the same place, so he rubs his hands sure to have discovered the murderer.

He goes to the place that is not a jewellery shop or a fantasy clothes shop for ladies, but an establishment where they sell esoteric articles.

The owner is a septuagenarian old woman who rather than walking crawls helped by a walker, so it would be impossible for her to be the executor of the murders, but she could be the intellectual author of them.

A young teenager accompanies her in the task of attending to the clientele, which is minimal, taking into account that in the interval that has been there no one else has arrived.

She identifies with both of them and shows him the photos of the victims.

Without showing any kind of emotion, the old woman replies that they were all clients of the place and that they were looking for something in common, a talisman that would help them find love.

He also declares that he sold them a copper necklace with a heart-shaped medallion of the same material since it is indicated for this purpose and that it should only be worn on Fridays, as it is the day governed by the planet Venus.

He reproaches himself mentally for not having noticed that they all died on the same day of the week.

He also explains that he has sold approximately twenty of these amulets, so he speculates to himself that there are fifteen possible victims on the street.

She spends more than fifteen minutes listening to the old woman, and something catches her attention without knowing the cause, according to her the talisman is an inducer to attract love but equally it is a shield of energy to attract good or to separate evil and according to the use given to it this can be mortal when the wearer wants to make it serve him to benefit or take advantage of the attracted.

So the hypothesis of the septuagenarian is that dead women are not really victims but tried to be victimizers, attracted evil and this killed them.

Where do I locate to capture evil?

Think sarcastically.

If all that the necromancer, as she has baptized her in her memory, is true then there are four different killers and that leads to a larger question.

Who killed the fifth victim?

Months later, to Sarmientos's disgrace, who was sure she was a charlatan, the woman's speculations begin to take shape, the four murderers are caught and all declare to have been victims of the women who by different methods extorted them, but deny remembering having murdered them.

The fifth culprit never appeared.

Would evil itself be the murderer of all of them?

 

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With this post I participate in @apostrophe's writing challenge week 7

 

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