The serial killer

June 20, 2007 Chennai
“Ewww”, was the shout from a girl. All the people in the vicinity rushed to the spot followed by the holler. There was a dismembered leg, a staunch rationale to what standard, moral values have fallen to. “It’s atrocious and callous”, cried someone. It was indeed a heinous act that raised many eyebrows.

June 21, 2007 Pune
In the outskirts of the city, a body was found, in a highly decomposed state, floating in a local water body. The concerned authorities are yet to ascertain the cause of death, but this looks to be the handiwork of the same cutthroat whose bloodcurdling murder has created a sensation in Hyderabad.

3 more such dastardly homicides in the following days and here we are with our very own serial killer in India. The most baffling fact is that the bodies or the dismembered organs appear in the broad daylight amidst the highly populated areas.

A committee was soon constituted to find the intent and the motive behind these serial murders.Neither a single piece of evidence was collected from the site of murder, nor a single clue. Apparently a single mastermind wouldn’t be able to execute these murders, but a gangs’ hand behind the murders cannot be ruled out.

June 25, 2007 Hyderabad
The most gruesome of them all happens in the next few days. While the body was being removed from the place of recovery, it splits into two parts and fluids were seen dripping down from the dismantled body. One of my friends has been the mute witness to this horrendous and gory scene. Two or three curious onlookers have fainted.

The committee has come up with its baffling findings. He killed only members of ‘Periplaneta Americana’. The murderer\the gang was nicknamed ‘The Hitter’ in resemblance to the Hitler under whose regime the Nazis went on an extermination spree, killing the Jews. The hunt was now on for the ‘Periplaneta Americana’ sect.

The Hitter is not caught yet. He may be one among us, unsuspecting and in the prowl for prey. Don’t be surprised if this happens to your neighbor or for that matter, to yourself.

There are three remarkable things according to the findings.
The first one. Unless you belong to this particular sect. there is nothing much to panic. The second one. Of course you don’t belong to this group, as I was talking about the findings in the food we eat, and the last one, ‘Periplaneta Americana’ is the scientific name for cockroach.