They had been private homes that now had been purchased by the college. W nim posłuchacie o bardzo tajemniczej sprawie morderstwa 18-letniej Cheri Jo Bates, do którego doszło w 1966 na terenie uczelni w Riverside w Kalifornii. A very, very sour crank if it was one. There really isn’t much to uncover about the preliminaries. By this time, Zodiac used a known symbol. It was time to “fall backwards.” The clocks would have been adjusted late Saturday night or early Sunday morning (for those who went to bed early). The extent of the contortions and trauma her face went through during the fight is evident in the little blood spots that had erupted on her forehead and scalp. They speculate that Cheri was acquainted with this unnamed suspect but they were never able to collect enough evidence for an arrest. Or would she have walked along the dirt paths thinking the homes occupied? On a bug the central wire on the distributor went to the ignition coil. Cheri Jo would not have waited around for over an hour. That is simply not the case. This read: “She Had to Die. There were those in Riverside Homicide who didn’t care for that. They are signed with a symbol. By this time, of course, any other suspect had long fallen through the cracks. There seemed no question the assailant was a man. Cheri Jo Bates stabbed to death and nearly decapitated on October 30, 1966 at Riverside City college. At night it would have been like a deserted neighborhood. She might not have known they were empty. Her bug’s engine had been tampered with. But if the ex-beau/killer wrote this, why make so many mistakes? It certainly isn’t a knife one would expect a killer to carry and use as a weapon. The person who wrote it went to the trouble of sending one to the police, to the local paper The Press Enterprise and to Bates’ still-grieving father.  •  After Bates was killed, someone sent several anonymous messages to the local newspaper, the police, and the father of the victim, and these writings were later attributed to the Zodiac by some handwriting analysts. She had ripped the Timex watch off his wrist. Feb 20th, 1964 Tiger Times “Construction on New Library To Begin in 1965; Meanwhile .. ” In ’64 they were letting unsupervised study happen in the Quad English Office and maybe the foyer of the auditorium. Alas, in the public forum we are left with only The Zodiac. Up the dark dirt lane she went, peacefully enough, probably in hopes of being able to use his phone. An examination of the car indicated that the distributor coil and engine’s condenser – part of the car’s ignition system – had been torn out. The poison note paper messages were of a different vein. If this was true, then the pining ex-beau might have tampered with her bug in order to talk with her. There were no more murders. But if The Zodiac did commit this murder and write this letter it presents several chronological inconsistencies in his developing crime spree. At around 6:30AM the very next morning, Cheri’s lifeless body was discovered on a dirt driveway near the library by a groundskeeper. The Zodiac was not the first to write the police about his crimes. Two, her throat was not cut. I AM NOT SICK. That poor family never getting any closure and just being taunted. The 1966 murder of Riverside City College student Cheri Jo Bates, a slaying some have attributed to the “Zodiac Killer,” not only shook the town, but it devastated the campus community. The killer of Cheri Jo Bates had the wounds visible and the haircut that was done to cover up the scalp removed was obvious. His costumes ranged from the bland and                  obsolete to bizarre theatricality. Other handwriting experts then disagreed. Either this would be a secretary’s typewriter or typewriters associated with some classroom. Here is a screen capture around 13 seconds in: The writer blatantly develops his style before us. It is undeniable, however, that there are elements in The Confession Letter that show a similar mentality existed in the writer as existed in The Zodiac. This was the fatal blow. If it was her, it would mean her killer knew she was going to the library or recognized her when she arrived. But in late 1971, Paul Avery of the San Francisco Chronicle made a connection with Zodiac and “The Riverside Murder” of 1966. Her car was found approximately 100 yards from the alley where she was killed. usngunner1976. In such an instance, what did it matter if the police could prove the typewriter upon which the gross confession was written was a Royal or a Remington? “BATES HAD TO DIE,” read the note. His first letters introduced him as “the killer” or “the murderer.” It is rather easy to see how he developed his game as he went along. Concentrating on too narrow a limit has destroyed the reputations of many great scientists. It just broke their hears that they couldn’t solve it..”. That is a question hard to answer. One of the main…. Eerie examples of  premeditation were evident. At the scene of the murder of Cheri Jo Bates some two years and nine months later, investigators found a watch with paint on it, according to the … The three April 30, 1967, letters thus may not have come long before he started killing. SHE WAS THEN VERY WILLING TO TALK TO ME. Tag: Cheri Jo Bates A Few More 1965/66 Articles of Note. Cheri was an honour student and had been a varsity cheerleader at Ramona High School; she dreamed of becoming a stewardess and was planning on marrying her 19-year-old boyfriend. One thing is certain, there never were more murders like Bates’. Inside were 3 books she checked out at the library. BUT NOW SHE IS BATTERED AND DEAD. It was to stand out as starkly different from the childish hand that wrote the body of the note. He goads the recipients. Just one of Zodiac's victims. Her brown/blonde hair was disheveled and leaves had stuck to the back of it. Whoever is responsible for The Confession probably worked at the college. The Zodiac also liked to appear quite savvy. The Confession Letter envelopes carried none whatsoever. At 9:23 a.m. the next morning, the autopsy revealed that death had occurred anywhere from 10 to 12 hours before, so any time between 9:23 p.m. and the times of the screams at the latest time given for them at 10:45 p.m. To complete it he makes his only squiggly line in the whole noxious note. At one-point, Riverside police investigated a possible link to the infamous Zodiac Killer after they noticed a number of similarities in Cheri’s murder and those associated with the serial killer. We can deduce that this was the first letter written. SHE WENT VERY WILLINGLY.  •  The wounds suggested a blade only 3 and 1/2 inches long and 1 inch wide. Nevertheless, as unlikely as The Zodiac is as the culprit, the murder may contain a vital key to unlocking the identity of the infamous northern California killer. SHE IS NOT. Unlike today’s complex car engines, back then engines were fairly simple, and most any young man was familiar enough with motors to know that the common beetle’s central distributor wire was connected to the ignition coil. It was at this moment that the assailant must have come along, and with Judas-like advances offered her help. THE BATTERY MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT DEAD BY THEN. He then used a known symbol. But it is not any known symbol. In fact, the writer of Bates’ note had trouble making the capital “E”. Then the attack happened. On November 29, 1966, exactly 30 days after the murder of presumed Zodiac Killer victim Cheri Jo Bates, two almost identical typewritten letters were sent to the Riverside Police Department and the Riverside Press Enterprise. Why else use an astrological symbol and don a costume at Lake Berryessa? The attack was not swift. Bates’ killer wore a military issued Timex and left a heel print made for military shoes. It has absolutely no applicability. 5 min read. Much is made of this poem. To uncover a possible connection with Zodiac, and to thrash this out, we must now probe into the details of the Bates murder. SHE DID NOT PUT UP A STRUGGLE. That had been keenly done. Her left cheek was slashed. If her assailant did not approach her now, then she would probably have walked to the library and asked to be able to call. What would so enrage the ex-beau that the fight would start in the dark dirt path and murder would result? Her killer had disabled her car and lay in wait for her to return from the library to her car, where he attacked. Unfortunately, the “Boastful Slayer,” the “Horoscope Killer,” the “Astrological Assassin” was simply too adept at advertising himself. He had more motive than anybody else. This would tell any moderately car savvy guy that the central coil was indicated. Even the same type of .22 ammo used on Lake Herman Road was used at Gaviota Beach. Of note, Ramona High School’s Band participated in the parade. Under the nails of that hand there was skin. Almost tongue-in-cheek the author of the letter presents himself by a blank space: There are also a number of avoidable misspellings. They also found a set of unidentified fingerprints inside Cheri’s Volkswagen bug.3. According to Detective Jim Simons, these armchair sleuths aren’t hurting the police investigation and in fact, he believed that they are a form of support for victims of horrific crimes. On the face of it, this didn’t happen. Police theorised that Cheri’s killer had disabled her car and waited for her to return from the library to the car. Does he develop even this before our eyes? THERE WILL BE MORE.” The third one was sent to Joseph Bates, Cheri Jo’s desolate father. But they rightly wondered if Zodiac did not write the letters as a part of his own incubating thrill game. But it is no known letter. It could also double for the sights of a gun targeting its victims. It is also very much like an alchemist’s symbol. According to investigators working on the case, there was never enough evidence to connect the Zodiac Killer to Cheri’s murder. She either rolled over, or at the end of his maniacal fit of stabbing at her the killer rolled her over afterward. A woman who lived nearby reported that she heard an “awful scream” between 10:15 and 10:45 p.m. She elaborated for the press a day later. please site your reasons of choice. However, the Autopsy Report is now in public domain and can be studied. Historia ta może być początkiem słynnej sprawy Zodiaka, który 2 lata później terroryzował północną Kalifornię. Her left carotid and jugulars were not cut, nor was her windpipe. The violent murders of Robert Domingos and Linda Edwards were themselves a blueprint of what was to come in northern Cal. Check it out and let us know what you think! His cryptograms and stupid satirizing and threats to do worse brought the whole populace into his game of murder and seek. These were far different from The Confession Letter. Police... Feb 20, 2020 After hours use would suggest a staff member, a limited number of students and, very possibly, a janitor/groundsman. Well, what to make of this? The symbol is not a “Z” as many have posited in an attempt to make a link with the “Astrological Assassin” more concrete. Or do those symbols suggest occult influence? It was then that Zodiac congratulated the police and the press on having discovered his “southern California” work. 3 min read. It was Sunday night on the 30th of October, 1966, and 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates needed to pick up a few books from the Riverside City College library, where she was a freshman. These blood spots, called petichiae, are created during extreme emotional trauma. Did she know her assailant? In either scenario, the killer knew the campus. Were these the other murders the anonymous confession letter writer had promised? But when? SHE WAS YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL. A short, ominous, childish scrawl. She was not wearing a dress. For one, the writer trails down when finishing a sentence or line. OR MAYBE SHE WILL BE THE SHAPELY BLUE EYED BROWNETT THAT SAID NO WHEN I ASKED HER FOR A DATE IN HIGH SCHOOL. IT WILL BE ON YOUR CONSCIENCE. However, the district attorney declined to prosecute the suspect, stating that there was not enough admissible evidence. For Cheri Jo Bates to have been killed shortly after 6:00 pm, we would have to disregard both of these statements and believe that she wilfully left her vehicle in the state it was eventually found. These notes could link Bates’ murder with a coven-in-the-making, which may have included Zodiac, or he may have been solely responsible. When Riverside Police and the relevant San Fran Bay Area jurisdictions collated evidence, Sherwood Morrill, the Questioned Document’s examiner in Sacramento, examined the envelopes and writing. Her dead body was, however, found on the campus the next morning by a groundsman. I don’t think her assailant could take that chance. He finishes the “E” with a flourish similar to the symbol he would far more elegantly make on the next letters. Quite experienced. He was both the hunter and he made              himself the hunted. But The Zodiac was indeed a very sour crank. This was a new “science.” By his late years in the 1960s and early 70s he was quite old and the science of examining documents had progressed. Sadly, he was successful in his game. Long before The Zodiac started his crime and terror spree someone similar in grandstanding style saw fit to use Cheri Jo’s murder for similar motives. Over the course of the next two years, police, the Riverside Press-Enterprise and Cheri’s father reported receiving several confession letters. If The Zodiac is responsible for both The Confession and poison notes, he worked at the college. There had been a huge debate on whether or not she was a victim of the Zodiac Killer. It’s so heartless and mean. But where is the substance? PORTLAND, Ore. -- Cheri Jo Bates was someone her Riverside, Calif. community cared about. Crime scene photos show the blood spurting in large drops to her right (if facing up), so that it seems she rolled to the left. In addition to the unidentified set of fingerprints, there were fingernail scrapings and hair strands found in Cheri’s hand. If this was written by a crank across town, he would never be suspected. An enlargement, above, of the symbol, as it appeared on the note to the                                       press and the police, respectively. Years later, the evidence would be tested and the samples did not match the main suspect in the case. As she held his right wrist, the blade of the knife must have been intermittently cutting at the back of her left hand. It was an overt attempt in some cases to keep the writing on the page or envelope. Surely, if some friend or acquaintance wanted to get rid of her there was a less elaborate plot and risky circumstances that could have offered themselves. She had to be on her back at that time. This was then a small east Los Angles area suburb near San Bernadino— hicksville to Hollywood people. But the note was signed at the bottom with a very small symbol. The wire from the distributor cap to the ignition coil had been removed. Cheri Josephine Bates was a freshman student at Riverside Community College who was murdered on the campus of the educational institution, on the day before Halloween, October 30, 1966. There will Be MoRE.”  Unlike The Confession Letter, these were handwritten. 5 min read. She was found on a dirt “driveway” or road between two old fascia board homes with porches. He did not even call himself The Zodiac yet. Or this was a typewriter in the public domain— in other words at the campus. It is not evident as much in the Joseph Bates letter due to the relative shortness of his name compared to the police and Enterprise letters, where the address was naturally longer. MISS BATES WAS STUPID. Above, Dana Andrews puzzles over an ominous warning in Night of the Demon (1957) after leaving a farmhouse of coven members who practice a form of witchcraft in which people have to die after being given a slip of paper on which are written witch’s Futhark runes. Home » Mysteries » Cheri Jo Bates & The Zodiac Killer, In 1966, 18-year-old Cheri Jo Bates was attacked after she left Riverside City College Library, California.  •  SHE ASKED ME, "ABOUT TIME FOR WHAT". The police were certain it was genuine. It had been stabbed. Oct. 30, 1966 in Riverside, Cal. Years after he stopped his thrill killing he still wrote letters boasting of what he could do and he continued to claim victims that clearly he was not responsible for. If Bates’ killer had a close connection to her, or that if he was indeed the suspected ex-beau, it might be quite wise indeed for him to write such a letter and make it look like she was just the latest victim of a crazed serial killer. As a result this confession letter stands out like a tarantula on Angel Food, to borrow Raymond Chandler’s expression. This is not the contradiction, though. At this same time, there were those in Santa Barbara Sheriffs who were suspicious that Zodiac was responsible for the 1963 Gaviota Beach murders. In the late 1960s a serial killer quickly and clumsily killed his victims as     an ante in a game he was developing. For the printing on the poison notes was later examined by a prominent analyst, and he confirmed that the printing was indeed The Zodiac’s.  •  The notes were signed with that strange symbol. Perhaps the most enduring and controversial theory links the Zodiac to the 1966 murder of Cheri Jo Bates in Riverside, California. In a fit, he must have jabbed at her neck. Was it Bates who had to die the day before Halloween or anybody who fit the bill? On Sunday nights the college library was open until 9 p.m. She was observed to have arrived at 6 p.m. She had parked her little green Volkswagen bug on Terracina, the narrow road between the library and the old Mediterranean style quadrangle. This would take the eye of suspicion off anyone she had known. Or is the occult and those symbols purely crank grandstanding after-the-fact? In a separate preliminary report, Project MK-ZODIAC provided information about an attack on a student at Riverside City College on April 13, 1965, which may have inspired whoever stabbed Cheri Jo Bates to death on October 30, 1966. 1 villain The Zodiac. The Tragic Case of Autumn Wallace & the Familiar Intruder, A Family Affair – The Murder of Jerry Heiman, Freedom Behind Bars – The Ashlee Martinson Case, Burned Alive – The Slow Death of Robbie Middleton, Missed Opportunities & The Death of Jeffrey Baldwin, The Girl in the Closet – Lauren Kavanaugh, In Broad Daylight – The Unsolved Murder of Wendy Wolin, A Murder & A Disappearance – Chance Wackerhagen. I voted for Bob Barnett. To put it mildly, she had been in a hell of a fight. One letter said that Cheri needed to “pay for the brush off that she had given me during the years prior.”4 Another read: “She was young and beautiful but now she is battered and dead. If the purpose of the events of that night was murder, then somebody took pains to arrange for murder here. One other thing is very possible. If this is accurate, it raises some puzzling points. Her throat was slashed and several stab wounds were in her back. Instinctively, there are those who reject his claims as mere boasting. I PLUNGED THE KNIFE INTO HER AND IT BROKE. Cheri Bates, the first unsolved murder in Riverside's history, is believed by both researchers as well as some law enforement officals to have been the first victim of the notorious Zodiac Killer who intimated at the time that he had killed both in Southern California as well as in the San Francisco area. He may never have used the symbol again if he came across the Zodiacal symbol and delighted in its much grander meaning and obvious artistic analogy of a gun sight. It was neat, cursive, even elegant. The police turned her over. But it is overt in the others. The poison pen pal notes therefore might indeed reflect the writer’s link to the crime. No, it seems murder was the object all along. Months after the murder, on April 30, 1967, to be precise, more correspondence had come in to the Riverside Police. Knowledge of a phone call to the police or press, which apparently was made by some crank, could simply mean the same nut who called also went to the trouble of writing such a long letter. Oh well,it was redanywaylife draining into an uncertain death.she won’t die.this time someone ll find her.just wait tillnext time. It has been speculated by a number of sleuths, including Riverside Homicide, that Cheri was killed by a spurned beau. The problem here is that this in itself is only a tenuous connection. Opinions are thus quite divided. Her assailant obviously intended to waylay. If he had offered her a ride home, it seems likely she would have taken the books she had just checked out. He’s not going to pull the paper out and start all over. The writing was all in caps, naturally, the script of anonymous and poison pen pals. Riverside Police became convinced that she did know her assailant, and it appears their suspect was this unnamed former boyfriend. This was not a calm, cool murder. Three, only one news article said there was one scream; another clarified there was two. Taft was in jail when Bates was killed, so it was not possible that Taft was the murderer. Mains believes the killer's DNA has been obtained from the scene of the grisly murder of 18-year-old student Cheri Jo Bates, reports Daily Mail. In fact, everything is different here and closer to Zodiac’s later style. Advertise with NZME. BUT MAYBE IT WILL NOT BE EITHER. It is beyond the scope of this article to mention the confusion in the US over the Daylight Savings Time, but it was sufficient that in 1966 the law was finally passed standardizing it. They were not deep stabs, but lacerations. Post Jul 11, 2019 #2 2019-07-11T13:27. SHE DIED HARD. She lay face down in the dirt and dried leaves. From there Avery ran with it, noting that as in The Zodiac murders Bates’ killer sent a gloating letter to the police and press afterward. But it is a symbol that the poison pen pal meant to be taken seriously. Long before he started his own wave of clumsy thrill killings in the San Fran Bay Area was this his way of getting his kink? The poem is literally completely inapplicable to the actual crime. Odp: Zabojstwo Cheri Jo Bates Odpowiedź #32 dnia: 10/01/20, 22:00 Jesper , nie jest mozliwe, aby sprawca byl z Cheri przez 1.5h i nikt by ich tam razem nie widzial. Best of all, the letter simply doesn’t carry any kind of information that would be exclusive to the killer. He took no credit for the Lake Herman Road Murders until 6 months after-the-fact. If the above scenario is correct, then I would say she did not. I FIRST PULLED THE MIDDLE WIRE FROM THE DISTRIBUTOR. Some say he killed Bates and others say he only wrote the letters to get a thrill. who killed cheri jo bates and why? This is something evident in The Zodiac crime spree. On April 30, 1967, three letters arrived at three different places. It was on note paper. MAKING HER PAY FOR THE BRUSH OFFS THAT SHE HAD GIVEN ME DURING THE YEARS PRIOR. Then he boasted again, typically, that there were a “hell of a lot more” down there than what they found. Were the April 30, 1967, letters the first contact by the killer? She was certainly stabbed in a fit. Cheri Jo Bates. From the evidence one must deduce that the assailant offered a specific type of help, that is, a phone call. As already noted, it’s not a “Z,” but it is more like some alchemist or occult symbol. Cheri Jo Bates. Such a short bladed knife as was used doesn’t seem consistent with this being a premeditated murder. It was speculated that this evidence had come from Cheri’s killer as she desperately fought for her life. Quite clever. It was determined, however, that the evidence had come from a Caucasian male. Only in this, in that it was a symbol, does it suggest “The Zodiac,” who years later signed his boasting communication with the cross-hairs and circle. The last known sighting of Cheri Jo Bates was her arriving and entering the library at 6:00 pm, so this had to be the time the four workmen saw her. One almost all know about is Sir Arthur Keith and the notorious hoax of Piltdown Man. SHE LET OUT A SCREAM ONCE AND I KICKED HER IN THE HEAD TO SHUT HER UP. Morbidology is a weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by Emily G. Thompson. Now something even stranger enters the picture. Neither make him the actual killer. The writer would only go to such lengths if he was a person the police would naturally suspect and possibly issue a search warrant against to examine his house or apartment and therein uncover the typewriter. Riverside PD has a suspect in mind but has not made the name public. I THEN OFFERED TO HELP. Is the occult involved in the Bates murder? A strange, cursive symbol signed the note paper of the ones that went to the police and the press. Investigators found a men’s Timex watch and a shoeprint for military books in a men’s size 8-10. WHEN WE WERE AWAY FROM THE LIBRARY WALKING, I SAID IT WAS ABOUT TIME. rh. She was a graduate of Ramona High School, formerly a varsity cheerleader, and an honor student there. In 1966, 7-year-old Wendy Wolin was stabbed to death by a middle-aged man on a... May 26, 2020 At 6:30 the next morning, she was found dead, face down and fully clothed on the RCC campus in a dirt driveway on Terracina Drive between two unoccupied houses. Historia ta może być początkiem słynnej sprawy Zodiaka, który 2 lata później terroryzował północną Kalifornię. He named himself The ZODIAC,            the master controller. He was the first to market them to public and police so well. Minuts? The Enterprise had, in fact, reported enough for anybody remotely knowledgeable of cars to know that the central coil had been the one in question. She had been brutally murdered. Over 40 years later, only                                amateur sleuths and private detectives hound his trail. Small slashes were found in her arms and breasts, and there were cuts in the back of her left hand. They may be right. Bates must have gotten in the car, turned the ignition over repeatedly, and realized the car wasn’t going to start. But the other facts— the course they took up the dark lane to the deserted homes plus the lack of taking her books— does not argue that she was going anywhere with someone she knew or that she believed she was being taken home. For instance, soon after the murder an anonymous confession letter took the blame and its writer even boasted there would be more. This almost sounds like some Swiss army knife. If they are from The Zodiac, they represent an unusual progression in his crime spree. Bates did not survive. Disturbing parallels exist between the bona fide Zodiac letters to the Chronicle, Vallejo Times Herald and Examiner and the April 30, 1967, envelopes. Around 100 yards away from Cheri’s body, police found her Volkswagen bug with the keys still in the ignition and three library books on the passenger’s seat. MAYBE SHE WILL BE THE BEAUTIFUL BLOND THAT BABYSITS NEAR THE LITTLE STORE AND WALKS DOWN THE DARK ALLEY EACH EVENING ABOUT SEVEN. After all, Hartnell and  Shepard were both stabbed, and The Zodiac left a military boot print. It could be entirely made up by the writer of the note, inspired by such noir movies as Night of the Demon mentioned above, or it could be a genuine but arcane symbol. Months later a desk at the actual college library was found to have a “morbid” poem etched into it with a blue ball point pen. Cheri Jo Bates seems to be notably only as a possible victim of the Zodiac Killer, and none of the Zodiac Killer's other victims have their own Wikipedia article. They had their eye on somebody else, and even got DNA from him as late as 1998. Project MK-ZODIAC has theorized that this crime may have inspired the murderer of Cheri Jo Bates. Through the blood it appeared as if her neck had been stabbed at least 7 times. Four, it is impossible to grab anybody by the mouth and throat at the same time. Cheri Jo Bates— 10-30-1966 Art inspires so much in real life and is itself inspired by real life. Riverside Parade 1966: Is this Ross Sullivan and Cheri Jo Bates? Discussion of definite Zodiac victim Cheri Jo Bates should be posted here Above, Dana Andrews puzzles over an ominous warning in, An enlargement, above, of the symbol, as it appeared on the note to the, SHE WAS YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL. Her throat had also been slashed with such brutality that she was almost decapitated. I AM INSANE. I will never understand the way people write fake letters to “confess”. I am quite aware of that. This is where it gets more complex. BUT NOW SHE IS BATTERED AND DEAD. Did that flourish inspire his symbol? It read: cut.clean.if red,clean.blood spurting,               dripping,                     spilling;all over her newdress. Sherwood Morrill was a pioneer in Questioned Documents examining and was himself taught by the pioneers. But the assailant would not have wanted her to pop the trunk and see the engine had been intentionally tampered with. In April of 1943, a group of young boys discovered the skull of a woman... Jun 12, 2019 Joseph Bates’ note was not written in all CAPS. It served only to terrorize a city. I must assume he approached her. KEEP YOUR SISTERS, DAUGHTERS, AND WIVES OFF THE STREETS AND ALLEYS. But to be fair, these misspellings are few compared and could just be slips of the finger while he typed a long note. SHE IS NOT THE FIRST AND SHE WILL NOT BE THE LAST. I SAID IT WAS ABOUT TIME FOR HER TO DIE. She had put up a tremendous struggle but ultimately, her attempt to survive was futile. 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