Death
Resides Here
Proposal by Buddy Scalera
Unedited Draft
| WARNING:
This is the unedited draft of the proposal.
The details of this narrative were not fact
checked, as they would have been in the actual
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"Death
Resides Here" is the story of Kendall Francois,
the New York serial killer who had more kills
than Jack the Ripper, who murdered his eight victims
by viciously strangling them with his bare hand,
and stashed the corpses in the home in which he
and his family lived. His family claimed they
didn't even know the bodies were rotting in their
filth-strewn house.
The
bodies of Poughkeepsie prostitutes Sandra French,
Catina Newmaster, Wendy Meyers, Gina Barone, Catherine
Marsh, Kathleen Hurley, Mary Giaccone and Audrey
Pugliese were found in Francois' home by police.
Some corpses were stuffed in the attic. Others
were stashed among the clutter and filth in the
basement. All were strangled by Francois
meaty hands.
By
day, Francois was a mild- mannered school custodian
and hall monitor in the Poughkeepsie school system.
Co-workers found him charming and neighbors regarded
him as friendly; a gentle giant to
many.
But
by night, Dr. Jeckle made way for Mr. Hyde, and
Francois shrugged off his wholesome fascade..
Instead of the academic elite, he brushed shoulders
with prostitutes, drug addicts and drifters in
the red-light district of Poughkeepsie. In this
blighted area just a few blocks from his home,
Francois would troll around in his red Subaru,
like a shark hunting prey.
And
when hed pick his victim usually
petite, white, female prositutes -- hed
bring them home to 99 Fulton Street and strangle
them with his bare hands."Death Resides Here"
will be told in three acts:
ACT
I:
We'll
get to know the reclusive Kendall Francois, a
hulking 6'4", 300 pound school custodian.
Kendall was a man of contradictions, who when
not attending church spent his free time in the
red- light district of blighted Poughkeepsie.
We'll explore his history in the military, in
the school system and his family. We'll also meet
the main victims
and watch them disappear.
Eight prostitutes vanish from the Poughkeepsie
area between October 1996 and August 1998, which
causes a growing panic among
streetwalkers. Meanwhile, Francois quietly lives
at home with the corpses in his home on 99 Fulton
Street.
ACT
II:
The
authorities assign a task force to help locate
the missing women, who lay dead in the attic and
basement of Francois's low-rent house. Police
would point out later that the filth in the Francois
home mingled nauseatingly with the stench of rotting
flesh. Francois lack of personal hygiene
earned him the unenviable nickname Stinky.
We'll
also see a brazen Francois skirt around the edges
of a police dragnet. On several occasions, Francois
blithely slips through the dragnet. Quite simply,
he hides in plain sight. Like Jack the Ripper,
Francois went about his regular business well
enough to avoid raising undue suspicion.
Police question Francois because he's "john"
known for violence on the prostitutes. With no
bodies, the cops have virtually no evidence to
arrest him. He even calmly sits through a routine
check of his home. Again he slips through their
fingers. But his success breeds carelessness,
and we'll see Francois make a critical error:
he lets one victim live.
ACT III:
Before
and after he is captured, the story takes more
twists than a pack of Twizzlers. Busily hunting
for bodies, the police lack critical clues. And
it's a twist of fate that leads to his capture.
Francois is fingered by a prostitute whom he assaults,
but doesn't kill. While in questioning for the
assault, Francois calmly confesses to police.
Ironically, theyre not questioning him about
the missing women
he just volunteers the
information. He requests to see photos of missing
prostitutes and isolates photos of women hes
killed. I did it, he tells shocked
officers. I killed them.
Police
carefully obtain warrants for the house (they
must avoid mistakes that could lead to technical
mistrials) and begin making grisly discoveries.
In his own handwriting, Francois sketches out
maps for police to find where the bodies are stashed.
Police admit that the investigation drags on because
the Francois house is so filthy they have trouble
sifting through the mess to isolate the evidence.
Facing
his guilt, Francois waives his Miranda rights,
and signs a confession. A speedy trial
and death penalty seem certain. But due to New
York's capital punishment laws, only a jury can
order a death sentence. If Francois pleads guilty,
then he will not stand trial in front of a jury.
And he will not get death, which many of the families
want. In another twist, the District Attorney
William Grady refuses to accept Francois
guilty plea, a precedent in New York.
This
is where the case stands now. Legal scholars are
wrangling over the DA's refusal to accept the
plea.
There's
also still one more body missing. ``Michelle Eason
is still missing, and that's still an active part
of the investigation,'' said Detective Bob McCready.
Eason, 27, was originally thought to be connected
to the other missing women, but her body was not
found in Francois' home. Police have paid $500
for a billboard in the town of Poughkeepsie featuring
Easons photo.
END.
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