Maria Ellsworth: A Serial Killer

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At 6:58, Maria was detained at the police station to go under investigation for murdering 29 of her fellow high school students at 5:30. Even if Maria wasn’t guilty, nobody would believe her, for her father was a highly dangerous criminal. Everyone has always thought that she too would turn to a life of crime; even at school, where she was a model student. Although Maria was a friendly and astute girl, nobody would be her friend except for Sean. Except her and Sean had grown apart over the past year, because Maria had rejected Sean’s offer of a date. Now, Maria was being charged with killing everyone on the football team, and Sean, in one night. She was terribly frightened, and extremely confused about why they would suspect her. The police …show more content…
When Maria Liane Andrews-Ellsworth was born 2 years later, James realized he never really wanted a family, so he left his wife and newborn child on their own, two days after Maria was born. Lesly’s ailing parents had mysteriously been brutally murdered last year, and she was still grieving, while battling social anxiety and depression. After Lesly’s parents were murdered, only 10 months later, James’s parents were also savagely murdered. The homicide story was all over the news: “Both of One Couple’s Parents Brutally Murdered”. The news-casters were interviewing Maria’s parents. The investigators were all over the new case, and the old case. The police and news people were worse this time; “When was the last time you saw any of your parents?” “Have you ever met any of their coworkers, and if so, did any of them seem to hold a grudge against your parents?”. They closed off the whole apartment building in Oakland where my Nono and Popo lived, and they investigated everyone that lived or worked in the apartment. The investigators found that the only person to enter the building that night was James Andrews, and his fingerprints were found on a knife that was left at the scene. It was attempted to track him down, but he was nowhere to be found. So Maria was forced to live with an absent father that was also a

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