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Mercy Killing --
Part 2
by Cynthia Piromalli
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So you want to know what this secret is surrounding my mother’s death? Thought so.
Well, it wasn’t so much of a secret as a theory really.
But before I confide in you about that, let me tell you more about my sister.
She says her life is sufficient. I think she has a warped idea of sufficient. Fair enough, she has a roof over her head and food in her stomach. But otherwise, it seems very depressing, speaking from an outsider looking in. Even when I was in the house during that period after mum was killed, I still felt I was looking into some perfect life stuffed up severely in the making. The reason? I blame the unhappiness I saw there on Robert.
Chris is basically a shy person. She won’t say more than three words to anyone she hasn’t known for over ten years. I guess she felt pretty comfortable with Robert and was happy that there was one guy on this earth who would have her. I’m not being cruel, she just suffers from really low self esteem like that, so I’m trying to put it how I think she would. So I guess she thought it was “now or never” or something like that, and she married the guy after fourteen months.
And then the story goes, as it usually does, Chris and Robert were fairly happy at the beginning of their marriage. Then it changed. As I see it, they have the traditional domestic violence thing happening. Robert gets drunk a lot and is prone to violent outbursts. He used to work on a farm or something and now he drives a truck (I personally have never had a thing for either cowboys or truckers). He’s not home that much, but when he is … well, you can imagine.
Chris had gone into her shell even more. She hardly even went out of the house, and in those eight years they were together, I’d be surprised if she saw any more than twenty people, including me, Robert, and a few cops from time to time.
So now that I’ve got that out of the way, and you can visualise things in that part of the story, I’ll tell you my theory.
Robert killed my mother.
I personally thought anyone could have figured that out given certain facts about Robert’s characteristics. You figured it out before I even told you, huh? Yeah well, the cops never figured it out, or they just didn’t care about a middle aged woman with her head beaten in. They found “no offending fingerprints” or a motive. They found no trace of anyone being in the house at the time of death (apart from the god awful mess), or any other procedure type garbage like that. So when they let that loose on us, my first thought was that Robert probably knew things like that, like he’d had some sort of ‘previous experience’ or something. It was my first thought, and it stuck.
As for the no motive thing, I figured that Robert would realise that Chris would gain financially from her mother being a corpse. Mum was a real insurance freak, and stingy! Plus, he and mum never really got on. To be honest, she hated the guy, and he knew it.
I didn’t tell Chris what I thought until nearly two years after we had stuck mum in the ground. I was eighteen and was getting sick of the scene I had found myself trapped into. I was trying to straighten myself out and even managed to get a ‘better’ job at a fast food coffee shop sort of place. Chris would come in from time to time. One day sticks in my mind from that period, because it was the day I decided once and for all that things had to change.
© Cynthia M. Piromalli 2002
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