Convict to Victim. .
. .From the eyes of Greaser Gadie,
MOTORHOMES, MAPS,
& MURDER
Here’s the situation. I had to get out of that prison. It
was breaking my soul and the only person I knew to turn to was Brother Lester
Hager, the preacher at the Normal Baptist Church in Normal, Kentucky.
I’m telling you, my soul was crushed. When Brother Lester
and them church women came to talk to the prisoners, me included, I wasn’t sure
about all that. After all, them bible beaters where spoutin’ off stories of
redemption and love.
Then I got thinkin’. I’m redempted and I deserve love. When
that pretty young thing got off that bus behind Brother Lester, I knew that she
was the love I deserved. Her name was as pretty as her light brown hair and her
crystal blue eyes. Julip Kaye
Knox. She was smart too. She’s a map maker. There’s a fancy name for that. . .
but anyways.
When she put her hand in the air to talk to some of the
prisoners, I knew I had to be in her group. She came trotting into the communal
area and my heart beat as fast as a turbo charged engine.
Week after week, I studied exactly what Julip had left for
homework because I wanted her to notice me. The best day of my life was when
the prison guard came in and told me I had a visitor. You couldn’t imagine my
surprise when Julip was standing right there. Alone. And on a different day
than then the normal group visit.
It was then that I came up with my brilliant plan to escape
from prison. I just had to be with her outside of the bars. By the look on her
face, I knew she was on board, and the most important part of my ticket out.
I wooed her for a few weeks and talked sad mouth to her
about my conditions making it her idea for me to escape, which got her excited.
She was the one who told me the secret about Preacher Lester Hager was keeping,
but it was my idea on how to come up with the blackmail scheme.
The next time the bible beaters came to the prison, instead
of getting into Julip’s group, I decided to go to Preacher Lester. During a
moment of silence prayer, I whispered in his ear what I knew and if he brought
me a few thousand dollars, an extra set of clothes, and a clear escape, then
I’d keep my mouth shut.
It was a great idea until my ego got in the way. I’d escaped
just like me and Lester planned, and it was on my way to Julip’s cabin in the
woods, when lo and behold there was the Battle of Wildcat Reenactment taking
place in the middle of the Daniel Boone National Park. This crazy lady in an
exercise outfit and fanny pack, Queenie something or other was her name, gave
me a civil war uniform and a bayonet, of all things, throwing me in the
reenactment. Clearly, she thought I was someone else.
I figured I’d just pretend and play along while I made my
way to the beginning of the trail using the maps Julip had made for me. After
all, I didn’t want anyone to recognize me, Greaser Gadie, the escaped prisoner
that all the law was looking for. But it was then that I noticed one of the
jurors that help convict me and put me behind bars.
I recalled the last thing I said to him right before they
hauled me off the prison, “I’m remembering your face because I’m going to come
after you one day.” Now, at the time, those might’ve been just words. But when
I saw his face, my blood boiled, and I knew I had to make good on my promise.
I made it look like part of the reenactment and that I
stabbed a soldier from the other side. My luck would have it, there was another
feller there that was on the jury and I had to make good on my promise one more
time. . .
Until. . .someone recognized me. Down I went, to my demise.
There were three dead, including me. But who killed me?
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