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Chapter 4 - The 'Mad Dog' Case: Part 2

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Of course, the Criminal Investigation Department of the South Wales Police police in Cardiff did it's best to find some kind of starting point. The pressure was especially intense when another victim was found almost a month later, the day before Christmas Eve, on December 23. It was Marie Williams, a 49-year-old woman of medium height, slightly overweight, with chestnut-colored hair. Her body was found in a garbage container placed under the building where her apartment was located, in a narrow passage between buildings. She was wearing a coat, dress, high-heeled shoes, and an expensive purse lied down next to her. Her hands were tied with a thin rope that resembled the one on which to hang laundry. Her wrists were bound so tightly that quite deep wounds were formed on her skin. Otherwise, the injuries were the same as the previous victim's - a slashed face, gouged eyes, bitten off pieces of flesh, and a whole bunch of stabs made with a sharp weapon. As for the rape, yes, there were traces of penetration, but no signs of semen. The condition of the vagina indicated that a mechanical device was used for penetration and in such a brutal way that the internal bleeding caused by this could have contributed significantly to the death of the woman.

Based on the testimony of neighbors, friends and co-workers from the accounting office in which Marie Williams worked, and after examining the found traces, including recordings from city cameras, it could be seen that the woman went home after work, she got off the bus on the stop near her block, but then stopped after reaching the entrance to that narrow passage between buildings where the garbage containers were, flooded with darkness, clearly looking into it, as if she heard or noticed something there. After about ten minutes of standing still, the woman is seen entering this passage and her figure disappearing into the darkness. The woman came in about 10 minutes past 11 p.m. and of course didn't come out anymore. There she was probably attacked by the perpetrator, raped and brutally murdered, dying a little before midnight. The next morning, the garbage truck crew that was supposed to empty the container came across this gruesome find. Rats and other animals partially ate the torn pieces of the victim's body or bit harder into the wounds inflicted by the perpetrator, which slightly distorted the traces, however, the similarities between the first and second murder were evident anyway.

Despite the evident age difference, there was something common for both victims - Marie Williams, just like Martha Jones, had a reputation as a rather promiscuous woman. Working in an accounting office, she earned well, but not enough to afford all luxury clothes and accessories, and this woman was very interested in fashion. She was an old maid, but the neighbors saw various men come in in the evening and out of her apartment in the morning, sometimes even on the same day after an hour or two. Everyone saw Marie return from shopping on weekends with her hands full of bags from expensive boutiques. The way this woman dressed didn't indicate she was working as a regular accountant. According to rumors, all those men who visited her paid for sexual services she offered, which was why this woman could afford to buy luxury brands. Another thing - while examining the camera footage at her place of work or residence, it was clear that Marie Williams was also followed by a hooded man whose silhouette was identical to the man following the previous victim. All these similarities made the police almost one hundred percent certain that they were probably dealing with a serial killer, which was really disturbing as it meant there probably would be more victims. But the worst thing was that there were still not enough clues to even suspect anyone.

At this point the public learned more about the murders and it obviously became a hot topic. People couldn't believe that a human being would be willing to do something like this, and the most terrifying thing was that the murderer was literally biting off pieces of the victim's body. And through these distinctive elements of his murders, in the press, on television and Internet he was hailed as the 'Mad Dog'. And unfortunately, as it turned out later, this was only the beginning of a series of bloody murders.

By September 15, 2020, 'Mad Dog' had murdered 7 other women, ranging in age from 20 to 50, of which those in their 20s to 40s were directly raped, and those over 40 were raped just like Marie Williams. Besides that, the inflicted wounds were always the same, made in the same order. Invariably, the killer also seemed to leave no traces other than those that were of no use to the police anyway.

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