The Case of the Mystery Man

The sister said that the apartment was dark and that she could not recall a face, but she had dreams in which a face appeared and she believed there was enough light from the freeway to permit some visibility. The sister was given some mild hypnotic suggestions and after several relaxation inducing count-downs, she made selections from the FBI Facial Identification Catalog which after three meetings led to Composite No. 1. Vanessa was shown the composite and told to watch out for someone who resembled this person and that if she ever saw the PERP, Central U.P.D. would do another composite the likeness of which would identify the PERP in our cases as the PERP in the Central City P.D. case. Copies of this composite were not publicized.

The Mother, on one of her many visits, informed Central U.P.D. officers that this PERP was so clever that he was writing some of the notes on Vanessa's typewriter. Like baby kittens slowly opening their eyes, the staff at Central U.P.D. ever so slowly began to see the emerging pattern and were then able to understand how the PERP was able to slip through attics, leap tall buildings at a etc., etc. etc. Meanwhile, back at Central U. life was going on despite Vanessa, The Mother, the PERP and Central U.P.D. In late November, there was an attempted sexual assault in the hallway of Daarwick Hall.

In the almost deserted hallway of the second floor of Daarwich Hall, a coed was attacked by a young man who fondled her breast while laughing at her. He ran away when other people appeared in the hallway. The coed cooperated in the development of a composite of the suspect and this time the composite and the crime information were publicized extensively by the Central U. News Service. This was Composite No. 2. Meanwhile back to the ongoing saga of the star of our show----VANESSA.

By the second week in December Vanessa is ready to play her trump card; The Mother is ready for electroshock; The Central U.P.D. staff is at a Vanessa-induced standstill and the Christmas Holidays seem like eons away from sweet relief.

The quandary is how to reveal that Vanessa is creating the PERP without triggering a civil suit from The Mother. And then she played her trump card!

The morning is quiet, the air is clean, the anticipation of Christmas Vacation is intense; Officer Vacera is in his unit at the Southwest corner of Vanessa's Dorm. Inspector Baldero is looking out his office window at the Northeast corner of Vanessa's Dorm. God arranged this. It was not planned. Breaking the tranquillity of the morning, a 911 call comes from Vanessa who is screaming, "Someone is pounding on my door! They're trying to break in!". Then there is a scream and a loud noise as if a door had been slammed. Dispatch announces the emergency and Vanessa reports the PERP is gone but he is wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans. Officer Vacera reports he is in place covering the South and West faces of the building and Investigator Baldero reports the North and East faces of the building under surveillance. Within seconds four officers are in the building searching for the PERP. No PERP leaves the building. No PERP is found in the building, but a note dropped by the PERP as he fled confirms all the dir ty rotten things he is going to do to Vanessa (unless of course The Mother will permit Vanessa to transfer to North Central U.). Vanessa says she was in her room all morning.