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Here’s the last Buried Alive episode for public release. After this you’ll have to wait for Headfone to make it available on their app. This is also my last audio drama for the company. I’ve never been very social and Headfone and Vocal are the same in that you need to be apart of the club to find fun in participation. My writing now relies more on building worthless crypto. It’s OCD in a way. Thanks for reading, enjoy, and remember West Coast Milblogger returns next year, LOL. Have a Happy New Year:
EPISODE 5 - SCENE 1
(SFX of shoveling dirt then the moan from a badly beaten man.)
NARRATOR
(Seductive true crime narrator) Casino Killer, a name created by the public after a series of murders in the Mojave (pronounced Moh-ha-vee) Desert. In a manner similar to the ending of the movie Casino, people were found beaten to death, while being buried alive.
ALLEN
(As if he were being interviewed for a documentary) Growing up in rural southern Nevada, Las Vegas became a place to seek role models to follow during my teenage development. Casino was one of those movies I'd heard about, and got on D-V-D. The ending had an impact on me. That's when I began to plan doing that to somebody. I just became obsessed, I guess.
NARRATOR
Using bogus credentials, Allen posted real estate listings on the internet. He'd then schedule to meet people at random places in the Mojave (pronounced Moh-ha-vee) where he already prepared a shallow grave. He would then try to lure them so he could beat them to death with a baseball bat.
ALLEN
It might sound like a weird thing to do, only that's why I'm Casino Killer, it took an effort to setup the entire scam on the internet. Plus, you had to meet these strangers somewhere in the desert to win their trust as a fake real estate agent.
It took almost 10 meetings before convincing someone I was alright, because I didn't match the picture online.
In order to do this, I became a harmless associate sent out by the boss who was too busy. Even so, I was sizing up the people who were willing to go further. The first was a couple, and I knew it would be too difficult to take them both down with a baseball bat. The baseball bat itself scared some people away until it became a toy to hit rocks, the sand dunes were a homerun.
Then this one guy showed up - and I just knew - this is the dude I'm going to kill. Everything went perfectly. He suddenly stood in front of the shallow grave I'd dug to take a piss. That's when I hit him on the back of his head, cracking his skull open.
It wasn't enough to kill him. He tried to stand up a couple of times. It took more swings to keep him down for good. Then I buried him alive, using the shovel that was sitting right where I'd left it when I dug the hole.
NARRATOR
It didn't take much time before people saw the resemblance to the movie Casino, blaming this series of murders on mob hits. Police even started their investigation with this bias in mind.
Casino Killer kept meeting people looking to buy real estate and killing them. Only it was difficult to beat someone to death with a baseball bat. Physically, it was demanding. It made him sweat and breath heavy. He pulled muscles and woke up sore the next day.
One man even realized what was happening. They got into a life and death struggle. Experience helped Allen emerge victorious. It was a hard fought won.
Then the news broke. The people being killed in the Mojave(pronounced Moh-ha-vee) weren't murdered by the mob. They had all inquired about real estate listings online.
ALLEN
That's when it got too hot, I didn't want to get caught, so I laid low. There was more than a few years there; I thought I was done. Yet this urge to bury people alive resurfaced within me.
I suffered many difficult nights thinking about this irresistible longing, it finally occurred to me, to drug women before burying them alive.
It would be easier than beating someone to death with a baseball bat.
NARRATOR
Casino Killer decided on homemade chloroform. Then he began hiking nearby trials. Once he found an ambush zone; he was ready to kill.
ALLEN
Drugging a woman with chloroform was different of course. It had to be a woman because they were lighter to carry on average. The grave was at least a thousand yards away and I needed to get out of sight as soon as possible.
It was around the seventh time, when I started making coffins because the women looked so peaceful while burying them alive. Plus, it had to be at least six-feet deep. There was always the chance they could dig themselves out, it worried me each time. Not to mention - it didn't feel right - not to know, if they woke up or not.
With a coffin it would almost be a guarantee they woke up. It gave me an opportunity to image these people suspended there. Unable to get out.
NARRATOR
Yet once again investigators would catch up with Casino Killer's profile, when they connected the baseball bat attacks with the drug abductions, through evidence not released to the public.
That's when the killings stopped again.
ALLEN
At the end of the day; we all want a big payday, so I decided to try something different. Look for someone particular with money for a ransom. Really craft the coffin in its burial spot. A way to provide air without light, water, and to be able to communicate using audio equipment. This would be my defining moment.
That's when I saw Marie on the Las Vegas Strip. Then I saw her again and again; finally realizing I'd seen her running trails in the morning. When I followed her home - to a gated community - I knew she was the perfect victim.
(SFX Marie's scared breathing. Continues until cued.)
NARRATOR
Now it's present day. Allen sits in his office looking toward the kitchen. If he stood looking over the kitchen sink, he would be able to see - not too far away - a small grouping of trees, where Marie lay four-foot underground.
Here in his office, he can hear her breathing on a speaker next to his computer.
(SFX scared breathing fades out.)
NARRATOR
Sometimes, the whimper of a young woman afraid to die.
He turned the volume of his microphone up to speak with her.
ALLEN
(Creepy cringe) Marie. I don't think your Mom wants to see you. That's the second hang up. We have to wait another day.
MARIE
(Hopeless) I have to spend another day down here?
ALLEN
(Sarcastic) Well yeah. You're Mom hasn't paid the ransom. She might not pay? You might die in that coffin? (Drawn out)
MARIE
(Bursting into sobs) I don't want to die here! She'll get the money.
ALLEN
(Trying to destroy her will to live) I don't think so. You're going to die on my property in that coffin.
MARIE
(Fighting back) Her accountant and lawyer are involved. They're going to question a large withdraw. She doesn't want the police to know. It's just taking time.
(Confident) I can go another day. Or, you can dig me up and we could eat lunch. I'm so hungry.
ALLEN
That's not going to happen.
(SFX click of microphone being turned off.)
NARRATOR
Allen turned off his microphone. Now Marie couldn't hear him.
MARIE
(Pleading) Please. Please let me out. I really would like something to eat.
(SFX click of speaker being turned off.)
NARRATOR
Casino Killer turned off the speaker. Now he couldn't hear Marie.
Thank you,
Cyrus Emerson
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