The Philadelphia Murder Case

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I went up to Philadelphia when I got wind of an interesting murder case. A young man, (24) supposedly killed a guy because of a blind eye. The young man was 5’ 10’’ and approximately 180 pounds with hazel eyes. This man was insane. He claims not to be crazy to police. This man was recently diagnosed with a disease, that we are not sure what of. He says it sharpened his senses.

He was really confused as to how the idea popped into his head. He claims to have loved the old man and that the old man had never done him wrong. The old man was blind in one eye. The young man said it looked “vulture like” and it was said to have looked like film was placed over top of it. He had very strange reasons as to why he killed the man.

The young man went

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