July 19th, 1961, Monday
Detective Ballesteros:
Are you writing this all down?
Don't write everything that I'm saying, just the evidence!
Ugh *long sigh* Just do your job and listen, okay rookie? This isn't a joking matter.
Good, now let's begin...
*knocks on the front door*
Mr Olsen, we are here for some questions. May we have a talk with you?
Mr Olsen didn't respond
Mr Ballesteros:
Mr Olsen! This is the detective! Open this door, we need some answers from you. We..
We will tell you what happened to your daughter...
Few moments later some shuffling and muffled cursing could be heard.
Mr Olsen: You said you know what happened to my daughter?
Detective Ballesteros: Yes, may we come in?
Mr Olsen gestured for us to come in.
Mr Olsen: Please tell me my daughter is safe, she's all I have left.
Detective Ballesteros: I'm sorry, Mr Olsen. We found you're daughter's friends. They were badly burned by a fire that had consumed an abandoned ranch a couple miles down the road. All were still alive and accounted for except for your daughter.
Mr Olsen: No, no, no!! It can't be my precious daughter, did you check for her ID? She said she was going to a party, not a dangerous ranch that's falling apart from the inside! I knew those girls were nothing but trouble, but she would have told me if they had changed plans!
Detective Ballesteros: I know this is hard. But we need you to calm down and take a few deep breaths. Then can we get you to answer a few questions to assist in solving this case
Mr Olsen: Alright
Detective Ballesteros: Was your daughter into drugs or alcohol?
Mr Olsen: No, we follow strict rules here on the ranch.
Detective Ballesteros: Notice changes in her personality before the incident?
Mr Olsen: Not many, she just acted like a teen going through puberty. Though I don't recall puberty involving mental breakdowns and uncontrollable screaming being a part of the deal.
Detective Ballesteros: Sounds like an anxiety attack, a bad one. Did she seem to have a hard time at school? With peers or students?
Mr Olsen: Yes, she talked of some major finals coming around. She comes home scratched up, but she just shrugged it off. And there's this teacher she's been complaining about, but I know she was overreacting.
Detective Ballesteros: Have you met the teacher yourself?
Mr Olsen: Oh yes, a young gal, 10 years younger than me. But I'm not too old I can't charm a fine lady like herself. She's very polite, which I think Tabitha was afraid I'd marry the lady and forget about her. But I need to rebuild my family, it's what my wife would've wanted for me and my daughter, to live on happily.
Detective Ballesteros: We're getting off track, Mr Olsen. What happened to your wife?
Mr Olsen: She died in a car accident, pickup truck had slammed into the side of the family car when she pulled out of the driveway. The ambulances tried to get out here as fast as they could. But by the time they had gotten to the hospital, she had already faded and slipped out of my arms. I was so torn, but I couldn't tell Tabitha that her mother had died, she was only 3 when it happened. So we moved away from that awful damn place and I told her that her mom was on a very long vacation.
