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“We finally nailed the Butcher. Thank fucking Christ.”
Rufus Wedge, otherwise known as the Beacon Hill Butcher, had been the most wanted man in the Pacific Northwest for a long time.
One must always be careful cleaning up after a kill.
the sickening images of his grandfather torturing the poor young girl
Edward Shank, former chief of police of the city of Seattle, had been the Butcher.
Sam’s theory was that her own mother, Sarah Marquez, had been a victim of the Butcher . . . which meant the Butcher wasn’t Rufus Wedge at all.
She had, of course, discussed all this with former police chief Edward Shank, who’d generously answered all of her questions.
KILLERRED: I know the Butcher’s real identity.
Matthew reminded Edward so much of himself. The ambition, the aggression, the darkness that seethed just below the surface . . . it was all there, just waiting to be unleashed.
The Butcher would make her career, just as the Butcher had made his.
Her username on the site is ‘KillerRed,’ though, so I’m assuming she’s still a ginger.”
Edward Shank, the former chief of police of Seattle, was the fucking Beacon Hill Butcher.
She never asked questions. Wasn’t her business. Your lola knew her place.”
“None of them were what you would call ‘good girls.’ They were the dregs of society. Drug addicts. Prostitutes. Teenage whores. A waste of good taxpayers’ money.”
“Well, yeah. If you weren’t dead, I assumed you’d be hungry.”
“Fuck your back,” Edward barked.
“I’m not doing a goddamned thing, kid. This is your shit show, dummy. You’re doing it.”
It doesn’t bother Grandpa because Grandpa is a psychopathic serial killer,
“He never goes anywhere without his cherry-flavored cigars.”
I’m not sure you can put a price on the freedom of not having your mother-in-law move in.
She was fascinated with the psychology of serial killers.”
like Ted Bundy,
What he wouldn’t give for his lola to still be alive. She’d always been a calming presence in his life.
His grandfather murdered his girlfriend’s mother.
Nothing surprises me about old folks anymore,
“Women are not our equals. I’m not saying we’re better, okay? But they’re not our equals.”
Turns out both sets of DNA share certain markers that prove they’re father and son. The father killed Bonnie/Joyce. The son killed PJ Wu.”
“It’s definitely father and son. Not uncle and nephew, not brother and brother. Father and son.”
Remember, I raped your mother.”
sucked donkey’s balls.
A girl who looked like Lucy. He’d slipped with his daughter. He’d gone too far, and once Matt was born, he promised never again.
