All Chapters of The Scarlet Angels: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The 2nd interrogation of Laurens Vermeulen, nicknamed 'Mad Dog', was conducted this time by Leo. Esther herself gave it into the hands of her partner, because she didn't know if the killer's words would make her feel bad again. Leo was certainly less sensitive to such a sick talk. The only thing she feared was that Leo would lose his temper, but he assured her that was much calmer now. In that woman's apartment he reacted in this and no other way because of meeting 'Mad Dog' face to face for the first time and was still frustrated by the long months they had spent looking for this man. Now Leo was just glad that they have him in their hands, and lots of hard evidence, so interrogations were now just a formality for him. Besides, although in the beginning the man had mentioned the 'Scarlet Angels' more often, even to the cell guard officers, he hadn't mentioned a word about them for two days. And it seemed that Leo was most irritated by this 'crazy talk' about supernatural beings. Es

The next day after the arrest of 'Mad Dog', as not all lab results came, I decided to leave the police station for a moment under the guise of going to lunch and I went to the apartment of the would-be victim, in which he was arrested. I wanted to look around there myself, without any prying eyes around, because I wasn't going to look for anything closely related to this serial killer. I was looking for traces of the presence of 'Scarlet Angels'. According to the testimony of a woman and of the 'Mad Dog' himself, he saw legendary creatures in the living room of the apartment. And if you consider that they are real, they may have left a trace. Of course it wasn't certain, but I thought it was worth checking out. And it's good that I decided to do it, because behind the couch in the living room I found a large feather in a deep shade of scarlet. When the rays of the sun fell on this thing, it seemed as if the feather was made of a thousand tiny rubies, such a glow emanated from i

The next day, September 23rd, Esther and Leo were preparing files to be sent to the court, the prosecutor's office and the defense attorney attached to the accused Laurens Vermeulen. Preparations for the first court hearing were underway and each party had to familiarize themselves with the evidence. Towards the end of the evening, the police station grew a little calmer, so then Esther decided to do what she had been thinking of for several days - somehow imperceptibly sneak to the cells and talk to Laurens Vermeulen. Tomorrow, he was to be transferred to a pre-trial detention center located closer to the court building, that's why she only had a chance today. She went into the cell room and greeted the two officers who sat at their desks watching over the detainees.- Welcome, detective Moore.- they both replied almost simultaneously. One of them, Esther knew very well, he had been hitting on her once, but she clearly rejected his advances. This time, however, Esther decided

On September 23, I finally decided to implement my plan to talk to 'Mad Dog' without being noticed by others. I had already checked who was on the shift, guarding the cells at the station, and seeing the familiar name I was glad. On that day, an officer was on duty, with whom I was already working on guarding cells, shortly after I was hired to work at this police station. Thanks to the fact that I started working in this position, I knew very well how the monitoring program works, which showed the image from the cameras. I knew that this program was old and crashed frequently, and according to my information, no one has changed it so far. That's why I already knew what to do so that no one would notice on the recordings that I was talking to 'Mad Dog'. Yes, it was doubtful that anyone would want to check the video from the whole day, if of course there were no reported problems, but I preferred not to risk. The plan was to look into that part of the station and suggest to the

When Leo was in his apartment, sleeping quite deep already, he suddenly heard the phone ringing, then woke up and with his eyes half asleep noticed that it was a call from the pre-trial detention facility that 'Mad Dog' had recently been sent to. The clock showed it was exactly 5 minutes past midnight.- Is that some new 'devil hour' or what?- Leo asked himself, and picked up the call.- Hello, this is detective Leopold Evans, what is it?- he said, putting the phone to his ear.- Good thing that at least you picked up a call, detective Evans.- said a male voice, clearly nervous.- The arrested Laurens Vermeulen, who is staying in our facility, woke up 20 minutes before midnight and started throwing around the cell. When the guards got to him, he talked something about someone attacking him. We checked the cell and nearby area, but no one was there, and he lives alone in the cell.- the man explained a bit calmer.- He asked us to let him talk with detective Moore, but I