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Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: Callum’s Bloodshed

April 16, 2019, Summersville, West Virginia

Callum, the third son was sent to a rich family. His family was great, and not even a slight bit abusive. Callum grew up with a troubled psychotic mind, he killed nature. Callum would cook squirrels alive in their oven, and skin them when he caught them, then over the year he would play with knives and cut the neighbor's break lines. When Callum turned 15, he started drawing detailed pictures of himself mauling his family.

Callum had a mother, father, brother and sister. His parents were scared of him and tried to get him help. They signed him up for therapy. After he finished, he was sooner reported as mentally ill.

Callum's parents took a long while to find a place for him so he could get special help. They didn't want to tell Callum right away so he wouldn't get too upset. They tried to get his sibling to lock their doors at night, to stay safe from their brother. Callum had already learned to pick locks and sometimes has broken into people's houses, which caused him to get into lots of trouble.

One specific day, Callum decided to kill the family bird. Callum put the cage with the bird inside of a bucket of bleach and drowned it. He cooked his brother Dex a meal and fed them the bird. Dex later got sick with bleach poisoning and died. His dad told him he was sick of him, and told him he would be sent to a mental institute.

His father explained why he had to go. "You are not my son, you poisoned your brother. I and your mother are going to send you to a mental institution."

Callum is upset and starts throwing glass from their window. "Noo, fu*k you both, I don't want to go there I'm not crazy. Please don't make me go."

His mother starts to cry and yells at him. "You killed our son, you little psychopath. I want you away from our daughter, and out of this house."

Nights pass until the day he has to go to the mental institute. Callum knows he will end up there, and heads to the kitchen. He gets a butcher's cleaver and goes to his little sister's room. Callum stands over her bed, raises the clever above her arm, and chops it off. The Parents hear screaming and rush over to her. Her parents walk in and see their daughter missing a limb and no sight of Callum. Callum hid behind the door came up from behind and shoved the cleaver into the father's spinal cord. He falls on the floor paralyzed and bleeding out. Her mother is holding the daughter scared protecting her child.

She begs him to stop. "Listen Callum stop, we won't send you away we swear. Just put down the knife, we love you."

She slowly picks up a glass vase but Callum knows what she is up to and throws the cleaver and her hand. Callum ends up butchering his family and painting the house red with their blood.

He tries talking to their soulless bodies claiming it was for the best. "Think of this as a good thing, you made your son happy in the end."

Callum lives in the house alone for a while until his family is reported missing and the police arrive and take him away to a mental hospital. He was sentenced to life in custody. As far as people's concerns were he wouldn't be fixed without the proper help. After 1 year of trying to get through to him, they gave up on him. Callum still killed several staff members over the one year.

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