Baltimore Murder History

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It had been five months since the murders began. Young men and women of all different ethnicity and walks of life had begun turning up dead in the streets of Baltimore, Maryland five months ago today. That is how things started, at least. The Baltimore PD and the Behavior Analysis Unit of the FBI had labeled the killings to be serial, despite the wide demographics that they covered. This was due to the shared signature of every killing - they were simply tore all to hell. Guts and gore were the best way to describe the crime scenes and the city was in a panic. Police patrols doubled in the first month, then tripled n the second. The whole time, more and more federal agents were being stationed in the city to attempt to curb the murderous rampage. …show more content…
The victims were all white and between the ages of twelve and thirty. There were still victims of both sexes, but males were more common. In addition, the mode of murder had changed. Previously, the stomachs had been torn open and guts had been strewn about. Often times, the hearts would even be missing entirely. Now, however, the method of murder was a simple and clean decapitation... if you can call that clean. In most cases, there were burns on the victim's body, but not in all cases. In the cases where there were burns on the corpse, aconitum flowers were also found near the …show more content…
Despite it being nowhere near Halloween, the streets were filled with people in costumes. Some were dressed as vampires while others were dressed as the infamous vampire hunters that were rumored to have founded the town, which according to legend, started as the vampire hunter's camp during a great inquisition near the founding of the Thirteen Colonies. No one took this legend seriously, of course, but Logan didn't doubt that there might have been some truth behind it. After all, he was a werewolf. He had never met a vampire face to face, but he knew that they were out there and he definitely knew of the hunters that protected mankind from his nightmares.

The main street of the town had been closed down to vehicle traffic and stands had been set up along the roadside, selling 'Human Blood', which Logan had discovered was just fruit punch, and all sorts of vampire and vampire hunter nick-knacks. There was everything from faux vampire tooth necklaces and earrings for jewelry to wooden crossbows that shot little plastic darts for the kids. It was Logan's worst nightmare - a hunter convention where you couldn't tell who was a real hunter and who was a clueless