What really happened on that lonely strip of I-70, on the evening of July the second, will probably never be known. Not for sure, anyhow. Despite police reports, medical reports, plain old witness reports, no one can really tell what caused the accident. What happened in the accident, well, that's just a piece of detective work.
According to Highway Patrol Sargent James Butler, the car didn't look any different from any other car that had skidded off the road. The 1996 blue Ford sedan had crashed into a tree about ten feet away from the edge of the road. "She was just smokin'," Sargent Butler recalls, "with windshield glass and bits of metal all over the place. It wasn't pretty, but then, it wasn't worse than a lot of other I've seen."
The story changes when Butler and his partner, Patrolman Bill Zedling, approached the car and looked inside. Zedling tells of the surprising discovery. "We didn't see anyone standing around outside the car, so Jim said to suspect the worst. I was nervous, 'cause I was new on the road, and I hadn't seen any fatal accidents yet." He pauses, and struggles to continue. "We walked up to the car and looked inside, and the driver, this big strong college-looking kid, was all doubled over the steering wheel with blood all over him. And next to him was this girl, dead too, but she was all naked from waist up, I mean completely nude- damn she had fine tits, a good body- oh sorry, could you take that out? I really shouldn't have said that- yeah, well she was sitting next to him leaning over the center console. She had blood over her face too, and a little on her breasts. Not too much, though. You could tell."
"There wasn't much we could do," Butler puts in. "We just waited for the EMS to come to take care of the bodies. We did the usual reporting. I tried not to look in the car, but Bill, heh, he said he wasn't looking." He gives Mr. Zedling a friendly jab in the side, to which the patrolman replies with a painful grimace.
The driver, the "big college-looking kid," turned out to be Peter Thomas, a sophomore running back for the SNU-Pelliers football team. Friends described him as studious and friendly, always willing to help another person out. The girl was harder to identify, but she was finally found to be a freshman at SNU, Melanie Pekinal. She was described as playful, a little flirtatious, and, as one friend put it, "uninhibited in bed."
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So what happened? It seemed at first like a little reckless driving. Maybe Thomas, a known ladies-man, was trying to impress his companion and lost control of the car. Shirtless Melanie (then still unidentified) could have been a wild college student high on hormones.
But that was before the bodies were removed. When the car was opened, and medical personnel went to work, something else was discovered.
Mark Johnson was one of the paramedics at the scene. "We found the guy- Peter Thomson or something, that's his name isn't it?, with his pants down. They were down around his ankles. And the blood, it was coming from his groin. His, uh, his penis wasn't there, it had been torn off." Everyone present in the interview room shuddered. "So we got him out, trying at the same time not to look, and to conduct the investigation. Then we got to the lady, and all the blood, it seemed to be coming from her mouth. We opened it up and there was this cock- sorry, severed penis- in here mouth. You couldn't tell with all the blood whether there was any semen or not. We didn't think it was important, and nobody preserved all the many fluids present in her mouth."
It was important, though. In fact, investigators reviewing the case at a later date cross-examined the EMS personnel to determine why no tests were done. The response: "why?"
This was all a very gruesome scene, and an unpleasant clean up task for police and paramedics. Some photographs were taken, notes made, bodies taken and prepared for autopsy. The search for Why began.
Most of the older investigators were baffled, but fortunately one police detective assigned to the job was Ted Williams, a 26 year-old newcomer to the task force. He realized right away that Melanie was giving Peter a blowjob while he was driving. "I mean, it was obvious," he recounts of his determination. "Why else would his dick be in her mouth? And with her shirt off, it's pretty clear that he was fondling her pretty good. He must have gotten pretty roused up.
"Of course my superiors didn't like the idea. They said it couldn't have happened, that maybe there was some crime like rape involved, maybe she was trying to escape. So we had to go into the backgrounds of he two people, to see what was possible."
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As he speaks, Ted Williams takes two folders out from his file cabinet. "These are what we found on them," he explains. "We'll do Melanie first," he says, after checking that no one was taking photographs.
And Melanie's file was filled with photographs. Not photos of her room, but of her, taken from her room. Most are too explicit to print. "She is shown in a bikini, and without parts of the bikini," Ted explains with a naughty grin, "and naked. In a few prints she is licking the balls of some hot college stud, or swallowing the cum. In several she is shown fucking or being fucked. Hot stuff, hmm?" he asks me, showing a few of the prints.
"So what is all this about?" I ask him.
"Well, according to her fiends, she just liked being photographed in X-rated positions. We don't think she did this professionally, though she may have sent a few off to magazines, that were published. Her roommate is a photography major, so she had the benefit of good pictures. Maybe she was saving them as a portfolio just in case she decided on a 'modeling' career, but most likely she just liked showing them to friends."
To get an idea of these pictures, it would help to describe Melanie. She was brown-haired, around five foot eight. Her evenly tanned body could be described as "tight:" smooth skin, ample, firm breasts. "Her pussy is shaved," as Ted puts it. Throughout the pictures she looks and smiles, begging for a hard cock to enter her, for hands to caress her. In one shot her legs are drawn up, pressing against her firm breasts, revealing her inviting vagina stretched open for, well, a good fuck.
