Just then Sarah thought she heard a noise outside the front door. She got up to investigate but couldn’t see anything outside of the front door or anywhere in the front yard. She was so focused on trying to find someone or something out front that she didn’t notice what was going on right behind her. Leaving the screen door closed, she walked away from the front door and said out loud, “Oh, it probably just one of those damned neighborhood cats getting into the trash again.” Besides, her new husband, Michael should be home from work in a little over a half hour or so. If he had to work overtime he would have called already, letting her know.
There is a noise from behind her. She spun around to see that the sliding glass door and the screen door leading out to the back yard are both standing wide open. She would usually leave the door open about an inch, just enough to let some fresh air into the house. She kept the screen door closed to kept bugs and little critters from getting into the house. She headed towards the back door to slide it closed and lock it. When Sarah turned back around, she came face to face with large man dressed all in black; black shoes, black pants, a black hoodie and black leather gloves. His hoodie covered most of his face when he would pull the drawstrings tight. He carried a black leather bag in his left hand. It looked like the old doctor’s bag from the days when doctors actually made house calls.
Sarah let out a startled scream then asked, “Who the hell are you?” He offered no answer as the man set the black leather bag down on the floor and opened it. “Get the FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE!” she screamed. “My husband will be home any minute now, so just go!”
He pulled a small bottle and a cloth out of the bag. He unscrewed the lid on the bottle and almost instantly the smell of chloroform began to fill the room. Sarah tried to run out the front door but the man in black grabbed her by her hair as she ran past him and threw her to the living room floor, her head making a loud thud as it hit the tile floor. She laid there feeling disoriented from the fall and hitting her head. He kicked the front door shut behind him and turned around and locked it.
Now the man is standing over her as she tries to sit up. The big man put his foot in the middle of her chest and pushed her back down hard. “You not going anywhere, bitch,” he said. He poured the contents of the bottle onto the rag, leaned over and held it over Sarah’s mouth and nose. She struggled as hard as she could to get away but he was too strong for her. “Don’t fight it. It’s ok, baby. Shhhhh… Sleep baby sleep.” She had her hands on his wrists, trying to pull them away from her face. Slowly her struggling subsided as the chloroform was taking effect. Eventually her whole body went limp and her arms fell at her sides. He went to the kitchen and looked around. There was a butcher block knife holder on the counter. He retrieved a chef’s knife from the counter, which he put into his bag.
While she lay there unconscious, the man in black looked for a way to leave a note for her husband so he wouldn’t think to look for her until the next evening. He couldn’t write it himself because he was sure that her husband would know his own wife’s handwriting. Obviously, he couldn’t make Sarah write it, as she was unconscious. Sarah’s laptop was turned on, sitting on the coffee table. He had an idea. He picked up Sarah’s phone and started reading some of her texts to and from her girlfriends. She had several really good friends that she confided in. “Ah, this is the perfect one.” By the content he could tell that Laci was most likely Sarah’s best friend, the one she leaned on the most and vice versa.
He sat down at the laptop, opened a Word document and started typing:
Hey babe, I needed to go to Laci’s. I’m going to spend
the night there. She really needs me right now. She’s
having some serious problems. I’ll tell you all about it
when you get home from work tomorrow night.
Leftovers are in the fridge.
I love you,
Sarah XOXO
He had noticed the leftover food in the fridge when he was looking for a cold beer. There were no beers in their refrigerator. He left the laptop open and pointed it toward the kitchen where the door from the garage came into the house so her husband would see it as soon as he got home. Now he started digging through Sarah’s purse to find her car keys. He grabbed her cell phone off of the coffee table and put it in his pocket.
The man now pulled a syringe from his bag. He lifted her limp left arm, tied a small piece of rubber tubing around the upper part and inserted the needle into her vein emptying the contents of the syringe into her blood stream, pulling the tubing off her arm. The syringe held a large dose of midazolam, a drug often used as anesthesia during short surgeries. It’s also a drug used in fast acting, heavy duty tranquilizer darts. Midazolam starts working within about thirty to sixty seconds when it’s injected into the vein, two or three minutes when drank and two to four minutes when injected into a muscle.