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

/> Were you’ll close?

ESAU
Very close, she took me everywhere with her, to my violin lesson, to my math tutor

RINGO
You played the violin?

ESAU
Yeah, my teacher told my mom that I was a prodigy, I could hear a piece of violin music once and play it by ear

RINGO
What about the math tutoring?

ESAU (SMIRKING)
Again I was a prodigy, I have a photographic memory

I slowly open a manila folder.


RINGO (READING)
Mamie Sneed, ten arrests for prostitution, five for theft, numerous arrest for possession of heroin. , found dead and naked in the bathtub, needle sticking out her arm and a pair of pantyhose tied around her neck

The little man black eyes bored into me.

ESAU
She had a few problems

RINGO
Tell me about how you felt when as a little prodigy seeing your naked junkie ass, hoeing mother dead with a hype sticking out her arm

ESAU
Fuck you, you black muthafucker

RINGO
You’re so fuckin’ brilliant, a violin and math prodigy and you didn’t know it was wrong for your mother to be a whore and a junkie?

RINGO (THROWING PICTURES OF ESAU
MOTHER ON THE TABLE)
Look at your “sainted” whoring mama her hands crossed in an X across her chest, sitting upright in the bathtub. The picture was dated on the 10th of the month, most of your victims were killed on the tenth, motherfucker

The little man tried to get up but was restrained by the wall shackle, his eyes were on fire.


ESAU (YELLING)
Fuck you what you know?

Ringo got right in Esau’s face.

RINGO (SMILING)
I know I’ve got an eye witness that can put you at a rape scene, I know I got a witness of your murder of the reverend and the other man in the church, also have a condom with sperm and sperm from some of your victims, I got your fingerprint and a hair sample and I know I’ve got your DNA off the cigarette. You as not as smart as you think, you were careless, asshole, you figured that since you have never been arrested there would be no fingerprints or DNA on file, but I’ve got your little ass now.”

Esau struggled trying to get up, Ringo wished he could release him from the wall shackles, so he could end it right here. Ringo shook his head and walked out the room he called three other detectives and told them to book Esau for murder. Esau was fingerprinted, photographed and a swap taken from his mouth for DNA and taken to the lockup. Ringo watched and smiled as Esau still screaming and looking at the mirror was led away.

EVETTA
Crazy as a loon

RINGO
We’ll let him simmer for awhile hopefully I can a confession or something close anyway

An hour later I decided to have another shot at Esau and me and Evetta walked down the stairs to the lockup. The lockup only contained three cells and was primarily used to detain prisoners until transported to Central Lockup; we were surprised when we did not see the lockup keeper, Tony.

EVETTA (YELLING)
Tony, Tony

There was no answer we had our weapon out as we passed one of the cells, the prisoner was either asleep or faking, and twenty feet down the corridor was an empty cell. we continued walking to the last cell, which was locked and found Tony laying on the steel bed, eyes wide open and a large gash across his neck. Esau was gone.

EVETTA
What the fuck!

RINGO
Fuck!

EXT: POLICE PARKING LOT
Esau casually walked out the rear of the police station passed the gas pump where a civilian employee was gassing up a squad car. Two police officers were standing next to their vehicle talking. One looked at Esau and nodded, Esau smiled and nodded back as he entered Western Avenue and caught a southbound bus.

ESAU (WHISPERING)
Stupid motherfuckers

As the bus stopped at 43rd South Western Avenue Esau saw the men were still working at the construction site. He got off the bus and watched Ada from a distance she was so busy yelling at a worker she didn’t notice him as he leaned against a building. “Your time bitch motherfucker,” Esau said to himself looking at the clock on the American National Bank, it was 5:15 pm. “You’ve got fifteen minutes to live bitch,” Esau said in a low voice. At five twenty the workers started putting up their tools and headed to their cars. Ada was waiving her arms and yelling at a young black man who had his head down. A few minutes later the worker slumbered off and Ada headed for her car. The work site was empty all the cars were gone except Ada‘s, as she put the key in the car lock; Esau put the knife in her back.
ESAU
Get in the car bitch, and don’t look around

Ada did as told and Esau got in the back seat.

ESAU (CONT)
Drive, hoe and don’t look at me

Ada started the car and drove off the site.

ADA
Where to?

ESAU
Make a left at 44th Street and keep driving

When they reached 44th South Paulina Esau directed Ada to stop behind a vacant apartment building. Esau got out the rear seat and moved into the front seat.

ESAU
Remember me, bitch

ADA
Esua, what the fuck you think you’re do…..

Before she could finish, Esau struck her hard in the face and stabbed her in the side with the knife, Ada slumped against the driver’s door and Esau pulled her flat on the seat. Ada opened her glazed, terror filled eyes and tried to say something but Esau plunged the knife into her throat, pulled down her pants and raped her, he heard a slight gasped and said,” That’s for fuckin’ over black men.” After he finished he carved an X into her chest, pulled Ada’s dead body from the car and drove off. Two hours later her body was found and Ringo was notified. When Evetta and I arrived we interviewed Officer Pierce, the reporting officer, his sergeant introduced me to the officer.

SERGEANT
Officer Pierce this is Sergeant Ringo, tell him what you got

PIERCE
I was stopped by a Mr. Willie William who is a carpenter at the construction site on 43rd Western, he said that he was on his way to work and he generally takes a short cut through the alley on Paulina. As he passed an abandon building he saw a woman leg he stopped and saw it was his boss, Ada Shaw she had been stabbed numerous times and her dress was up and her panties pulled down to her ankles. He rushed to the site and called 911

Evetta and I went to the construction site and met with Willie Williams

RINGO
Do you know anyone who might have a bitch with Ada?

WLLIE
Everyone, she was a bitch, fucked with everybody

RINGO
Do you remember ever seeing a little, good looking guy hanging around the site?

Willie shook and scratched his head.

WILLIE
Yeah there was this little fucker who Ada was always fuckin’ with, his name was Eli, Eway………?

RINGO
Esau

WILLIE
Yeah, that’s it Esau Sneed, we use to call him the “little bitch.”

EVETTA
What happened to him?

WLLIE
Ada fired him

RINGO
Thanks, we’ll get back to you

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office is located on west Roosevelt Road. We stopped at the reception desk and in a few minutes were met by Doctor Dixon who led us down antiseptic, white tiled stairs to the basement morgue operating room. We entered through a closed steel door into the cold, dry air of the operating room. The icy chill and various chemical smells always made me feel nauseous and it was no different now. On the operating table was Ada, a sterile sheet covered her privates parts but the rest of her body was exposed. I moved closer to the table and looked at her, her soft ebony skin, her face so peaceful she was so out of place in these cold surroundings.

DIXON
Our examination of Ada revealed that she died of multiple stab wounds made with a surrogated knife, she had been raped and sodomized probably post mortem, traces of sperm.

The sight of Ada on the table dogged me all the way back to the Special Crime Bureau, I thought about all the other victims of this monster. Most people can accept death of a love one that is sick or even killed accidentally, but how do you accept a love ones death that is sudden, needless and brutal? We returned to the building and shuddered as I went up the stairs to Monique’s office. When I entered her office she got up from her desk and hugged me tightly, I smelled her perfume and felt her body next to mine. Finally we let each other go.

MONIQUE
Sit, detective

I did as requested and flopped down exhausted in an oversized, brown cloth chair.

MONIQUE (CONT)
Think it’s him?

RINGO (EYES CLOSED)
Seems like it; an X carved into her body

Later that evening, I returned to my office and retrieved the folder on Esau Sneed as the other detectives called it quits for the day. I couldn’t get the images of Ada Shaw lying on the stainless steel tables out of my mind. “Esau Sneed, born in Chicago, 1970, mother overdosed when he was three and three years later placed by DCFS with foster parents, Demetrius and Donna Whitley. In 1988, foster parents found stabbed to death in their Westside apartment and Donna was raped, Esau not found but considered a suspect. Interviews with teachers at Finger Elementary school revealed that he was teased and bullied by the other boys because he wore braids and barrettes in his long hair, teasing increased when discovered in gym class that he wore ladies panties, exceptional student and tested to have an IQ of 150, genius level. Suspected of killing six young women in Chicago and taking their panties and two in Gary, Indiana. He was arrested in September 14, 2009 but escaped from the lockup September 14, 2009 after killing a police officer. ” I pulled out the folder containing the FBI’s five page profile of the Esua Sneed and looked at the photo. He was a little man, handsome and listed at only five feet but had a well developed chest and muscular. I continued to read the FBI profile, “The X-man is a serial killer and without doubt is mentally ill, whether as a result of some event or trauma in his life or through chemical imbalances in his brains he cannot think and process emotions like the rest of us can in everyday situations. The X-man probably begun life in abusive or broken homes, with little or no parental influence and no positive social interaction with family members. This may have lead him to develop abnormal ideas of what is normal for people to do, He will one day take his behaviors to the next level, which in this case is killing people, probably women. He is probably socially backward, or the other extreme, seem socially normal, but secretly think that he is somehow above and beyond other people and smarter than other people. Your X-Man