Jasper

Please have a seat, ma’am.

I still don’t know what I am doing here, officer. I did nothing wrong and nor did Jasper.

For the record, Jasper is your son, correct?

Yes.

Now, why are you saying that he “did nothing wrong”?

Well, I don’t know why else I would be here.

Tell me about Jasper.

What? I haven’t heard from him in months. He doesn’t live at home anymore, moved out as soon as he graduated. Have you tried calling him? Because he sure as hell doesn’t answer the phone when I call him.

Ms. Adams, your son is dead.

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Ex… excuse me…?

Yes. We received messages from his landlord that he hadn’t paid his bills. Neighbors hadn’t seen him in a while so we decided to go check out the situation a couple days ago.

And wh…why am I..I just hearing about th…this now?

We found him in his bed. He had shot himself. Ma’am I need you to focus. Take a tissue and then please tell me about your son.

Well… well I…I guess it began a couple months after grad…graduation. He had moved out, got a job at the local butcher and took classes at the Crooks County Community College. He wasn’t the smartest in high school. I also noticed that near graduation he became very isolated. He distanced himself from his friends and his family… He…he wouldn’t even speak to me…

Now tell me about his situation at home.

Well his father left me when I was pregnant with Jasper’s younger sister. Jasper always blamed her for… for his dad leaving. He blamed me as well. My ex husband and Jasper had this… connection? But he never really liked us.

Do you think that is part of the reason why he started this male chauvinism group?

His what?

Your son was the co-head of a group that practiced male superiority. They would often cause riots and victimize certain feminists in the area.

What do you mean, victimize?

…Threaten, scare, they mainly threaten them though… they never actually did anything. Now, back to the question, do you think that the disappearance of his father had something to do with this male chauvinism group?

…It probably had some impact on him.

How did you feel when you first heard about the “Hair Snatcher”?

The what?

The man who would drug and kidnap women, shave their heads, and dump them in some motel only for them to wake up a couple days later, not knowing what had happened?

Oh… him… I was terrified. The reporters on CNN…

CNN doesn’t know shit.

Well, why don’t you tell me more then?

I can’t.

Exactly. So the news said he was targeting random girls and women: young and old, blonds and brunettes, curly and straight hair, long and short, curvy and skinny. No one was safe. I started driving his sister to and from school. We both stayed in the house a lot more, and I always made sure that if she wanted to go shopping she would have some guy friends with her, to protect her of course.

Back to your son. You mentioned he was taking classes at community college, right? What classes was he taking?

It was chemistry or criminology or something… not exactly sure. He always mumbled it and I never really paid attention.

Interesting… very interesting.

You don’t honestly think that my son had something to do with this lunatic do you?!

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We found wigs in his apartment ma’am…

That does not mean that he is the “Hair Snatcher” or whatever the hell you’re calling him.

Ma’am… the DNA tests match. The hair found in your son, Jasper’s apartment, belong to the 13 women.

I thought it was only 12 women…

We have reason to believe that something went wrong with his kidnapping of the 13th girl. There were thirteen heads of hair but we only ever found 12 of the women. We think that that is the reason why he killed himself.

Have you found the girl yet?

No, Ma’am. We are looking into her case right now. We now have DNA results from her hair… Her name was Amber… Amber something… Adams I think?

That is my daughter’s name.

(Her face turned pale. The police officer shuts off the tape recorder.)