The X-Man by Brian R. Lundin (100 best novels of all time .TXT) 📕

and for some strange reason, probably as a souvenir, takes the victim’s underwear.

RINGO
Ok guys, let get to work

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As the team leave Monique grabbed my arm.

MONIQUE
Let’s go to my office.

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Ringo follows Monique into her office and looked at her framed diplomas from Duke University, pictures of her and her parents overlooking a deep canyon in the Grand Canyon National Park and a picture of a young girl. She turned on CD player and the wailing sound of Miles Davis filled the small room.

MONIQUE (POINTING TO A FOUR CUP ESPRESSO COFFEE MAKER)
Want a cup?

RINGO (SHAKING HIS HEAD AND FROWNING)
No Thanks, too strong for me.

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Monique pours herself a cup of coffee and walked pass me to her desk Ringo noticed her smell, sweet and tropical.

MONIQUE
Sit, please, you look worn out

RINGO (FLOPPED DOWN INTO A COMFORTABLE, HIGH BACK CHAIR)
Long day

MONIQUE (SIT DOWN, KICKED OFF HER SHOES, TUCKED HER KNEES TO HER CHEST AND LOOKED AT RINGO)
How is the case going?

RINGO (SIGHING)
Nowhere!

MONIQUE
How is Detective Ringo handling all this?

RINGO
Going along

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Monique sat down her coffee cup and walks to a file cabinet, retrieves a folder, sits down beside Ringo and crossed her long athletic legs. She smelled sweet and clean as if she had just gotten out a scented bath and maintained an erect posture that emphases her full figure, she did this without seeming pompous or vain.

MONIQUE
How do you deal, mentally and emotionally with all this violence? How can you function when you see people mutilated and murdered in all kind of grotesque’s ways?

RINGO (QUIET FOR A MOMENT)
It's what I do, somebody got to stop them, and somebody has got to be concerned about the victims and their families, to try to bring these families some sense of closure, some peace.

MONIQUE
You know this is a very sick individual and probably were abused as a child and have a thing against women. Do you blame yourself for not catching the killer?

RINGO
In a way, yeah I do and I don’t want to feel any sympathy for this man, I didn’t care what kind of unpleasant childhood he had I don’t feel sorry for him. Being a clinical psychologist you may look upon X-Man as a victim himself but to me he is a cold-blooded killer who has to be stop, arrest if possible but death more preferred.

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Monique looked at him briefly and the look had nothing to do with police work, as Ringo pushed opened the door, checked his watch and hurried from her office.

CHAPTER


FADE IN:
Esau sat in a patched chair in Room 1B in the run down transit motel located at 39th South Calumet Avenue talking to himself. He had just finished doing two hundred sit ups and two hundred pushups. He felt good and said to himself, “I am a God; I can give life and take life.” He had spent an hour trying to convince himself that he was not a cold-blooded killer but was ridding the world of worthless women that used their sexuality to tempt and control men. He hated all the rules that govern society and told people how to live their lives.

FLASH BACK: -10 June 1973
Esau Sneed was two years of age in 10 June, 1973, when he saw his mother, a heroin addict sitting naked in a half filled bath tub with a pair of worn pantyhose loosely tied around her neck, eyes closed and her arms forming an X across her chest, he never knew his father and he doubted if his mother knew. One morning when he was three, he heard loud voices in their two room apartment, when he looked into the bathroom he saw his mother in the bloody tub her arms forming the customary X across her chest and a needle sticking out her arm. He heard one of the people talking about his mother dying from an overdose and how she had mutilated herself. A lady from the Department of Children and Family Services wrapped Esau in a blanket and took him to a large room where he spent the night with other abandon or abused children. Esau spent four years at the orphanage before being placed with the Whitleys, Demetrius and Donna. Demetruis was a big man over 230 pounds and over six feet and a drunk. When he was drunk he would beat his small wife Donna and Esua for no reason other than just being plain old mean. Donna was very submissive and the years of abuse caused her to look older than her thirty-five years. Esau was seven when he was sent to their home and he remembered his first night in their home, Demetruis came home drunk and raped his wife in front of him. Demetrious seemed to get pleasure forcing Esau to watch while he had sex with his wife and eventually Esau wanting to watch and became fascinated with Donna’s body. While a student at Finger Elementary School on the far south side of the city Esau was fascinated by his female classmates; he carved a hole in the girl’s washroom wall and would watch the girls as they used the facilities; he would stand below the stairs and look under their dresses as they walked up or down, when he saw the private parts of some of the girls who didn’t wear panties he would become aroused and felt a hardness in his penis. Donna would braid his long straight hair into pigtails and tie them with barrettes, she also told Esau how she always wanted a daughter and she would alter her panty-hoses to fit him. Esau was physically unimpressive at around four feet, a little under fifty-five pounds, but he had high cheekbones, a strong jaw-line that formed angular planes, sharp facial features, dark black eyes and a coffee colored complexion, but because of his size, his high pitched voice and his good looks he was bullied by the other boys to protect himself he carried a rusty switch-blade knife he found in the alley. In spite of his home life and the bullying, he was an excellent student and had been tested at having an IQ of 160 and considered by many of his teacher as charming and a genius, but other study’s revealed that he lacked social skills and often manipulated the younger children and seemed preoccupied with deviant sexual fantasies about young girls and women. Esau was often teased by his classmates for the braids and barrettes, in his hair and when we found out about the woman panties he wore, the teasing increased and the girls called him “Weirdo,” and would snicker, giggle and make fun of him. At home he found homework boring so he read romantic novels of Charles Baudelaire the 19th Century French poet and translator who wrote that “Unless sex was sinful, it was boring and meaningless,” and the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau the 18th Century Swiss philosopher, writer and composer and was especially fond of his saying, “That when imagination is combined with sexual desire the results is twice as intoxicating.” He read over and over their love scenes that described the beauty of the female body and he day-dreamed about making love to beautiful women. He lacked the courage to pursue or talk to the few girls he was attracted to instead he would attempt to ease-drop on them when they were undressing for gym or in the bathroom. When he was eleven years old and in the eighth grades he stopped going to school and decided to runaway. He was in his room packing his few clothes in shopping bags when Demetrius entered.

DEMETRIUS (DRUNK)
What the fuck you doing little mutherfucka?

ESAU (YELLING)
Getting the fuck out of here?

DEMETRIUS
Fuck you are what about the fuckin’ money we get for keeping your black ass

ESAU
Fuck you and the money

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Demetrius blind with rage and cheap wine lunged at Esau who easily side-stepped him and hit him hard in his beer belly. Demetrius doubled over and threw up a reddish liquid over the soiled bare floor. After regaining his balance Demetrius lunged again and grabbed Esua in a bear hug. Esua pulled his switch-blade knife from his pocket and kneed Demetrius in his groin. Demetrius released Esua and screamed as Esua plunged the knife into Demetrius neck and was immediate sprayed with blood, Demetruis grabbed his neck made a gurgling sound and fell. Esua straddled the fallen man and continued stabbing him. He heard a scream, turned around and saw Donna standing in the doorway, covered with Demetruis blood; he attacked Donna, stabbing her numerous times. When Donna fell to the floor her flimsy house dress flew up exposing her private parts. Esau got an erection. As he mounted and entered her he saw the fear in her eyes and heard her shallow breathing, in a moment she let out a gasping sound and her eyes went blank, Esau felt something in his penis a sensation he had never felt before, he let out a moan and felt something surging through his penis and he noticed the white stains on Donna’s leg. After a half-hour of raping Donna he dragged her dead body into the bathroom and placed her into the tub which he felled with lukewarm water and carved an X on her chest. For the next eight years Esau drifted between Gary, Indiana and Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago. In Gary he joined the G’D’s street game and began selling crack cocaine a block from a catholic all girls high school, he eventually got addicted on crack and the prescription drugs Valium, Ativan and Librium. Esau usually worked the afternoon shift and arrived at his spot generally about 3:00 pm just as school was letting out. He watched the young girls giggling and whispering as they walked, their red and blue pleated short shirts blowing in the cool breeze and their starched white blouses straining to hold in their developing breast. One of the young girls, he figured to be about fifteen caught his eye. She was tall and shapely with dark hair that hung to her waist and she would often smile as she passed him, her name was Mary Jones, he knew she wanted him. It was 10 January 1999 snow and ice covered the streets and the temperature was five below zero with a wind chill of ten below. His boss Billibob told him that the weather was too bad and to take the night off. As Esau was leaving he saw Mary leaving the school with two other girls. The two other girls rushed to a black Ford and he heard a male voice offer her a ride but she refused, pulled her scarf tighter around her neck and started walking. The sky was a dull gray and bolts of lightning leaped across the sky as Mary walked quickly through the depressing neighborhood of boarded up houses and abandon warehouses. The streets were deserted as Esau took a hit of crack and followed her. A gust of wind blew her skirt up to her waist, revealed white panties. Esau got an immediate erection and took another snort of the drug, he was feeling good and his strong erection was beginning to hurt he knew he had to get it off.