Free Evil Eyes by Corey Mitchell

and Karen had been to a party that evening at the Falls Apartments, off Bellaire Boulevard and Corporate Drive. They had arrived at the party at 9:00 P . M . and returned home at approximately 1:15 A . M . Suzi drove her ex-boyfriend Bogh’s car to and from the party. Bogh had lent it to her because he did not feel like hanging out. When Suzi and Karen arrived at their apartment, Karen was ready to call it a night. Suzi, on the other hand, still had some energy left. She told Karen that she was going to spend the night with ex-boyfriend Bogh, but

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    first she wanted some Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. She drove to the Safeway grocery store on the 8700 block of Bellaire Boulevard, which was closer than her Kroger’s. Unbeknownst to her, a man in a brown Grand Prix followed her to Safeway. He watched Suzi as she entered the
    store.
    He waited.
    He remained calm, even though he had just murdered another woman.
    Suzi Wolf exited Safeway just after 1:40 A . M . with her half gallon of ice cream. She also purchased a half gallon of milk, a package of doughnuts, and a pack of Benson & Hedges cigarettes, all for just $5.11. She opened the door to her 1974 tan-and-brown Oldsmobile Cutlass, sat down inside, fired up the engine, and drove home to her apartment. Suzi parked her car in the south parking lot and stepped out of her vehicle and into the large phalanx of apartments. She walked approximately 125 feet from where she had parked the car up to the concrete sidewalk that led to her front door. As she reached for her keys, the man who had been following her sneaked up behind her and stabbed her in the arm and chest. He stabbed her nine times with a single-edge knife, possibly a butcher knife. The majority of wounds were in the left breast area. Apparently, Wolf’s attacker got down on his knees and straddled her as he continued to stab. He stabbed her with such force that one of the deathblows was six-and-a-half inches deep.
    As quickly as he had appeared, he was gone into the night.
    Wolf’s upstairs neighbor Chuck Christopher had heard a scream and stepped out onto his overhanging balcony to inspect. He saw Wolf’s still body sprawled out with her lower half across the sidewalk and her torso in the grass with a white man standing over her. Christopher dashed

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    downstairs to help. He noticed the white man standing inside a wooden patio area.
    “I saw his hair pop up,” Christopher recalled. “His hair was standing on end. He looked kinda like Dagwood,” the comic-strip character. He described the white man as between the ages of twenty and thirty, with straight blond hair and a moustache. The man had no shirt on and was wearing cutoff denim shorts.
    Christopher also stated that the white man took off running once he was spotted. The man even looked back at Christopher and made eye contact. “He looked at me and I looked at him,” he remembered. Christopher, however, did not see the fleeing man holding a knife or weapon of any kind.
    At 2:00 A . M ., early on Sunday, Keri Murphy was awoken from a deep sleep by the ringing of her telephone. It was the Houston Police Department. They wanted family contact information for her best friend. Murphy sprinted out of bed and over to Suzi’s apartment, where she saw her best friend’s dead body on the sidewalk. “Suzi was there on the ground, lying with her shirt open and the melting ice cream. There was a box of Oreo cookies next to the ice cream.” According to the police report, the undisturbed brown grocery bag sat upright twenty to twenty-five feet away from Wolf’s corpse.
    Murphy described the murder scene of her friend as something very different from what television dramas por-tray. “No one was controlling the scene. I was able to kneel down to Suzi and hold her for at least ten minutes. I touched the grocery bag she had been carrying. No one stopped me. No one was too concerned about what was going on.”
    Murphy recalled that the