Free Ding Dong!! Is She Dead? by Alathia Morgan Page B

to the dryer. This was not unusual because of the small amount of washers and dryers available. While helpful, now all of her whites were a lovely shade of red.
    Looking a little closer, she noticed that there was red liquid streaking down the dryer door. She knew that one red item would not have dripped the color red. She called Kevin to come and investigate because she had a suspicion that it was blood.
    Yes, it was blood that had been poured on her clothes. There was also a dead rabbit thrown into the dryer. All the blood drained out of it. The blood had been sprinkled on top of the white clothes and they had started the dryer. He had only switched out one load and in the tops of all the other loads he had put different parts of the rabbit with blood poured on top.
    Allie took pictures with her phone so that she could file with her insurance. She then asked Kevin to take care of disposing of all of her clothes once the police were done with them. Thankfully she had only done a few loads, but some clothes were also Sally and Megan’s clothes as well.
    They called the police so that they could come and investigate it.
    Mike had left a disturbing message. He hadn’t forgotten his family; he was just waiting patiently until they let their guard down.
    Allie gathered a few extra things that she thought that they might need and went straight back to the hospital. There was no point in trying to get anything else done work wise for the day.
    Allie wouldn’t be able to concentrate on what would need to be done for work. It was still early afternoon and there wasn’t any reason to head to the hotel yet, so it looked like she would be spending a few hours with Sally in Megan’s room waiting for it to get dark enough so that they could leave.
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    On the other side of town out on a rural road that was dirt covered, a ford truck was making its way to the tree line. Kicking up quite a cloud of dust since there had been little rain so far that spring, the man driving the truck kept on when the road ran out. There were only two ruts in the dirt to follow the seldom used path. The truck continued another mile until it was hard to see where the path turned. The trees started to close in, making the path become so narrow that the truck barely fit. Pulling up to a cabin the man got out and approached cautiously, announcing his presence by calling out.
    “Mike, I’m here. Don’t shoot.” He collected a few bags of groceries and a case of beer from the truck bed and started toward the cabin. There was no electricity or power line running to the cabin, but in the dusk of the forest a light showed inside when the door opened and Mike stepped out.
    “Well, did they get my little gift?” Mike asked the guy carrying all the groceries.
    “Yes, they did and you should have seen how scared they were that you were going to pop out and try to take them out. I got the pictures that you asked for. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be in a position to get them, but this morning she left the hospital and started moving around so it was really easy to see where she was going. It was simple to take pictures when she went to take her clothes out of the washers. She found the gift I left while she was at her meeting. She was terrified when she found the rabbit, but she didn’t call out or anything. The first thing that the girl did was to call the police and boy, did they come running.”
    “Did they wonder how I got in to put those in there?” Mike had grabbed the beer from him and started putting the other items in an older refrigerator. Opening a beer, Mike headed back out to the porch with his errand boy following like a little puppy.
    “Well, they have everything so staked out that it would be hard for you to do, but I was able to put that marker on her car so that I would know if she moved while I was taking care of her clothes. Evidently, she was at McDonald’s for about 3 hours so that left plenty of time for me to go take it