Excerpt: College Bound

As the argument inside the classroom escalated, the few carrying on the conversation drew everyone's attention. They sat anxioiusly on the first day of class waiting for the professor but no one showed. As the new classmates compared their argumentive points to each other the change of demeanor in Deej’s opinion happened to escalate further.

“The serial killer had it all wrong. If I were going to kill someone I wouldn’t leave behind stupid evidence like their wallet or their car. The killer just wasn’t smart so he got caught.. Killers are not smart, most of them have pure dumb luck but none of them have the ability to get away with it. Actually, the ones that are smart did get away with it," Deej said as he mocked them.

"We could all argue Ted Bundy to Jeffrey Dahlmer but what about the recent killer they haven't even given him a proclaimed name yet. We could easily solve the case if they would let us do it," Jeremiah exclaimed.

As the conversation between the classmates introduced their own expectations of murder and how they would have done it differently the class of eleven introduced an interesting topic. The only one that didn’t seem to have any input on the conversation was Donovan Carr.

“What do you think Donovan?” Jeremiah asked as their conversation had now erupted into over an hour long debate of who murdered correctly as opposed to there being a right and wrong way to murder.

Donovan nodded and stood up.
"I’m glad to see that you all have such open minds, I’m interested in knowing a lot more from you next week. So your homework is to study one particular serial killer and find their erroraneous method. What did they do wrong and how did they get caught. Bring your presentation next week and we won’t need to meet again until next week. I’ll see you then.”

With open mouths they watched their professor leave the room. They assumed he was just one of the other classmates, he looked much too young to be teaching the utlimate course in Criminal Science.