I spent all day yesterday with my sister. I am going to kill
someone.
Again.
She told me on Saturday
that she had a parole hearing on Tuesday and “could I come and vouch for her?”
For reasons I still don’t understand, I said yes. So I used one of my precious
personal days to drive up to the dank, poorly-lit prison at 9am. They saw her
at 2pm. And then I had to sit for three hours and listen to inmates, guards,
and staff – everyone who’s been with her for the last seven years – talk about
how kind she is, and how helpful she is, and how she’s ready to come back into the
community.
She has them all fooled; thinking she is anything but a
menace to society. They don’t know my sister the way I do. They don’t know the
things she’s done. She got off easy with her sentencing. 15 years is not
enough. Has everyone forgotten what happened over Christmas? The problem is: I
still love her.
When the board asked
her family to step forward I realized I was the only one there. As much as I
fear my sister, my mother hates her. I was the only one there who could speak
against my sister’s release and I froze. Standing in front of those men and
women just looking for an excuse to lock her away, I lied. I told them my sister
made a mistake. “A momentary lapse in judgement that is now costing her
precious years of her life.” I almost threw up in my mouth. The things I said…
The board agreed to grant her day-parole. She gets to spend 10
hours a day out in society “making a difference.” I ran over a woman and stabbed
a witness with a pen on the way home that night. I can’t believe I lied for
her.
Again.
Even from prison my baby sister still has control over me. I
will not let her do that to me again. Now that she’s out, I’m going to be
working double duty with all of my obligations and keeping an eye on her. No matter how much supervision the
parole board provide, it will never be enough. She will find a way; she will go
back to her old habits.
Remember: addiction runs in the family. We’ve all given in
to it but she’s worse than I am in so many ways. I have just been sitting at my desk all
morning, thinking about what’s going to happen when my sister is released next
week.
I was so looking forward to October because it’s Halloween
all month long around here: horror movies, crazy parties, the smell of fresh
victims in the autumn air. I love it. It puts me in a sort of…mood. I want to
dress up and go on a killing spree.
Or better yet, play a proper serial killer – like the kind
in books and movies. I’ve talked about the psychology of serial murder all the
time. Not every killer takes a trophy or maintains a pattern. Those are the
ones who get caught. But I will admit that the more dramatic ones always make
for an interesting story.
That’s what I’ll do. I need to get my mind off the new
terror in my life. Maybe I’ll play Zodiac for a while; try my hand at being a
more theatrical killer and add some more horror to the holiday season.
I should talk to James first. Changing MOs like this will
affect the whole family so I need to give him a heads up first. But I need something to distract me from the
hellish day I had yesterday. This could be it.
Or maybe I’ll get a dog.
As always, dear readers,
Stay Safe
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