Love Me If You Dare

Chapter 10

This is a vacant piece of land in the countryside. It is off the beaten track.  A pile of old junk sits amongst the trees and overgrown grass.

    Jungkook parks his car on the side of a dirt road and walks over. 

    The police are everywhere.  The place has been thoroughly searched.  There are pits on the ground.  One of them has two policemen standing next to it. Jungkook walks up and sees a huge black plastic bag next to the pit.  Further back, there are a few more similar looking bags, where the police are examining the content inside. They look very intense and at the same time, sad.  

    Lisa's heart sinks.

    Taehyung walks up to Jungkook : “The dismembered body parts belong to a total of eight boys.   Estimated time of death for the most recent body is around one week.  We need further testing to determine how long the other bodies have been there, but we think the earliest murder would have occurred more than 12 months ago.” 

    Jungkook nods and starts walking towards the bags. 

    Lisa asks: “Can I stay here?”

  Both men look at her at the same time.

    Taehyung sees her slightly pale face : “Why don’t you wait in the car?”

    Jungkook keeps his hands in his coat pocket to keep warm.  He bents down slightly and looks at her at eye level : “Are you afraid?”

    Lisa softly replies: “I don’t want to see."

    Jungkook says mockingly : "Ah! Woman!”

    Taehyung is surprised at his comment.  Experience tells Lisa that there’s more to come.  Sure enough, she hears his voice that carries no feelings : "What a tragedy."

    Lisa looks at him: “Whatever. I do not want to see." And she turns away.

    Taehyung is a little stunned by the way they relate to each other.  He takes a look at Lisa and walks on with Jungkook. 

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    Jungkook squats on the ground, He is looking through the items in the bag wearing a pair of gloves. Taehyung squats next to him.

    The body parts are cut very neatly.  The surface of the cuts are tidy.  Skins are still intact. Each body is cut into seven pieces, including the limbs and torso.

    Taehyung says,. "According to preliminary forensic test results : The cause of death is asphyxia.  There are bruises on their necks, caused by commonly available nylon strings.  The body is then cut into pieces.  We are unable to determine what tools were used for the dismembering.  Other than that, the victims suffer no other injuries."

   Another police officer asks :  “Professor, you said yesterday that the murderer’s desires will be reflected on the bodies.  So what does the murderer want?”

    Jungkook points to the body parts: “Nothing else was done to them while they were alive or after they died.  No sexual assault. No torture or abuse. No blood. No poisoning. He did not take any organ …… The murderer had only one purpose - to kill and dismember."

    Taehyung looked at the corpses.  He always thought the teenagers might have suffered from sexual assault before they died. But that weren’t the case.

    Another policeman asks : "Do you mean… that he abducted those teenager just to kill them? He is not trying to take revenge on society?"

    Jungkook smiles: "True psychopaths do not care about the community.  They do it because they feel they need to, not to take revenge.”