Taxidermy: A Serial Killer

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The old lady that owns the bed and breakfast is a serial killer because she does many creepy and unnatural things to indicate that she is a killer, such as she stuffs her pets, and she was almost waiting for Billy Weaver to get there. One reason that indicates that she was a killer and not just a sentimental old woman, was that she stuffs her pets. “ I stuff all my little pets when they pass away.” This is a very unusual thing to do, most people don't stuff their own pets once they've died. They may go get it professionally done which this is called taxidermy. Taxidermy is “the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect, however, most people don’t even do that. She also seemed to

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