The Sleepwalking Murder

His neighbour witnessed him drowning his wife of 20 years in their swimming pool

Emmalina Alessandrya
Crimes Before Midnight

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A picture of a staircase to describe the first scene of Scott coming down the stairs.
Photo by Rutger Heijmerikx on Unsplash

“Get down!” the police officers shouted with their guns aimed at Falater, the man that caused the gruesome crime scene downstairs. They were on high alert after finding a woman murdered brutally and left floating lifelessly in the swimming pool. The pool had so much blood that the police described it as a shark attack.

But, nothing about Falater screamed murderer.

Dressed in clean pyjamas, he was midway downstairs and seemed confused about the ruckus. He made no attempt to fight nor escape.

Except for a bloodstain on his neck.

What happened that day?

January 17th, 1997, was just another regular afternoon for Scott. He came home from his day job and had dinner with his family. Shortly, he prepared his materials for a religious class the next morning before his day job. Around 9 PM, he tried to fix the pool filter as requested by his wife, Yarmila Fartela but failed. It was getting late, so he decided to work on it the next day instead.

He gave a goodnight kiss to Yarm, a nickname he adoringly used for his wife, who was asleep on the couch with the T.V. Series E.R. on before he climbed into his bed around…

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Emmalina Alessandrya
Crimes Before Midnight

Mostly a true-crime writer with a spritz of love for creative writing. Feel free to support with https://emmalinaalessandrya.medium.com/membership