Deadly Occupants

by Mads Rafferty

And with a best friend who is obsessed with the criminally insane and anything that makes you scream, it was not a question of if but when she would drag us to its doorstep.

“Blair.” My body doesn’t move until three claws slash down and scratch me so hard my mouth is set free from its frozen stupor. Just in time to scream as my worst nightmare appears before my very eyes.

I could have said no and not gone up there. I could have stood my ground but the need to make the small group of people left in my life happy won out.

Shadows hide secrets within the depths of their darkness.

Researchers believe the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths is that sociopaths are made, whereas psychopaths are genetically “born that way.”

Intuition is strong in everyone, but not as strong as a woman’s ability to know when someone’s unwanted attention is placed upon them.

I’m not sure why women love true crime, but I am one of them. Perhaps it’s because we know that our safety is always at risk and by indulging in true crime, we’re able to work through our deepest fears. Or perhaps female rage is present within all of us, and we just want to scream fuck you to the psychopaths.