The Case of the Mystery Man

The location of this sequence of events is Central University, located in a small town in the central part of a large state in our fair land. The story is true and the composite drawings are the actual ones done for the case; only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. This narrative contains graphic adult material and situations so parental discretion is strongly advised.

Vanessa is a very plain 18 year old girl, slightly overweight, who has been a coed at Central U. for just under 2 months. Vanessa is not a happy camper. She comes from a very small town Southwest of Central U. where she enjoyed a very satisfying relationship with "Bubba" her high school sweetheart and Champion High School Rodeo calf roper. After graduation Vanessa's parents insisted she attend Central U. even though Bubba was going to North Central U, 350 miles to the North. Vanessa's sister also attended Central U. and was a junior this year, studying Elementary Curriculum. Vanessa's sister lived in an apartment off-campus near a freeway, where the year before she had been grabbed, forced into her own apartment and sexually assaulted for several hours. This case was handled by Central City P.D. and no suspect was ever developed.

Early in November, Vanessa dialed 911 and reported that an intruder had come into her room in Burger Hall and turned over furniture, knocked books out of the shelf and generally trashed the room. Vanessa reported to officer Steiger that her roommate was out of town and she had left the room locked and there were no signs of forced entry. Officer Steiger wrote a Burglary of a Habitation report which was sent to Central University Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division where it was assigned to and received by Inspector Baldero who read it, pronounced it "dead in the water" and filed it. A week later the crime was repeated almost to the detail, except this time the ceiling tile were knocked out of place directly above the bookcase, indicating that entry had been made through the crawl space above the suspended ceiling. Steiger generated yet another BurgHab report which was duly sighed over and filed by Baldero. And then The Mother came to visit Central University Police Department.

The Mother had many questions and suggestions, which were not always flattering to Central U. P.D. What was being done? Had there been fingerprinting? Had the building been searched? Was there an armed guard on duty around the clock? What was being done to protect The Daughter and what was being done to provide counseling for Vanessa. All challenges were met with instant compliance and Inspector Baldero made sure that from that moment on, copies of both reports were always open and on his desk.

The Mother left town after confiding to Central U.P.E. That Vanessa thought the guy who raped her sister might just be the one vandalizing her room.

By the end of November, Inspector Baldero knew he would have to have a larger desk if he were going to keep all of Vanessa's cases open and on the desk because the perpetrator (hereafter to be known as the PERP) started to write notes to Vanessa and began to phone her at all hours of the day and night. The notes were always typed on clean paper and mostly said, "you won't be as lucky as your sister; she is still alive"..."I am going to make you suffer"..."I can see you all the time". The phone calls were whispered echoes of the notes. A series a Terroristic Threat and Telephone Harassment reports were generated and A PLAN was put into operation. All of this happened in between visits from The Mother Now that there was probable cause to believe that the PERP was the same person who had sexually assaulted Vanessa's sister, a review of that Central City P.D. case was made and the first step in THE PLAN called for a composite of the Central City P.D. PERP.