Essay On The Turner Murders

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It all started when Elise Turner lost her mother. She was brutally murdered in her house, only to be found by her father. She was heartbroken, but mainly confused how the killer got away from her father, the sheriff of Elise’s small town. It was the biggest mystery in her town, and even in the state. The police were dumbfounded on how to catch this killer, and weren’t serving any help to The Turner family at all.

Then one day her father thought of a diabolical way to catch the murderer of his wife, with his own daughter’s help. He forced Elise to train to kill other for years, promising that this was the only way to get retribution and catch the person who took her mom from her. She tried to get out of it as much as she could, but she could never have the life she dreamed of.

Flash forward five years, and the Turners are one of the most known serial killers in the United States, but no one knows they are behind these murders. Elise leads a pretty hectic double life, with her father breathing behind her neck to kill the next suspect, and a growing political career on the other side. Elise is still in the dark about her mother’s passing, just knowing basic characteristics of who she is trying to find. Every time she tries to back out, her father threatens to turn
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Elise goes to the station to learn more about her mother’s murder, and runs straight into Drew. She lies to him about her secret life to earn trust and then they start investigating the murder together. The political election for mayor is coming soon and ELise is the frontrunner for it, but she knows she needs to get her other life situated before she can take this position. As the election grows near, her life gets even more complicated. Her father is always gone looking for the killer, or ¨potential suspects¨ as he calls it, and Drew is always calling asking about certain things she remembers in her mother’s

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