May the 22nd 2002, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bill Smith receives a letter. He recently wrote about the murder of Teresa Wilson and how he believed there was a serial killer at work. The letter It’s on brown paper and on top of the paper, has a beautiful design of flowers, grapes, a beehive and it even includes multiple farming equipment. And underneath the lovely design is a message typed using ‘Lucida Handwriting’, a cursive font and in red the letter starts,

“Dear Bill, nice sob story about Teresa Wilson. Write one about greenwade write a good one and I’ll tell you where many others are to prove im real here’s direction to number seventeen search in a fifty yard radius from the X put the story in the Sunday paper like the last.”

The letter also included a computer-generated map with a X marking the spot where the letter writer last left “number 17” but number 17 of what exactly?

Well, the 17th murder victim. The letter writer is mocking Bill Smith and not only claiming that he is the murderer of Teresa Wilson but also claiming that that he’s killed at least 17 people.

This letter sent to mock and beg for acknowledgement will be the downfall of a serial killer who took pleasure in his victims pain, so much so he even taped his torture sessions.

This is the case of Maury Travis, now on Despicable Beings.

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