A Serial Killer: A Short Story

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Jacob sat in a coffee shop, typing furiously on his laptop, obliviously to the world around him. I was watching from a seat outside the coffee shop, a half-empty coffee in front of me.

An hour later, Jacob closed his laptop, paid for his drink and made his way out of the coffee shop in direction of his home, I knew where he was going and the route he usually took, I had been watching him for some time, two months to be exact.

Jacob was a twenty-three-year-old studying for his masters in applied mathematics at the local university, his mornings were spend at the university and didn’t leave until two in the afternoon when he went to his job.

He was a part-time data analysts and worked for the afternoon until seven where he left work to go to a coffee shop and stayed for an hour …show more content…

Before walking away, I spared a glance at Jacob lifeless body which laid on the floor, someone will see him eventually and call the police.

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“Jacob summers, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, was found dead early this morning in a park. The cause of his death was cut throat. That is the sixth death in the past six months and the police are now considering the work of a serial killer. To all our spectators, stay on guard and refrain from staying out late at night.”

“People these days,” Jannelle, my wife, said while making herself a cup of coffee, “I wonder what goes through the mind of the killer.”

“Who knows,” I replied. I wondered how she would react knowing that her husband was the killer, I made my way to the dinner table joining my five-year-old daughter, Carmen.

“Good morning sweetheart. Ready for school?” I said kissing her cheek and taking a seat next to her.

“Good morning daddy. Can’t stay at home today, please? I don’t want to go to school,”

“Absolutely not, young lady, you are going to school,” Jannelle interrupted from the

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