The new neighbour -- Part 1
By OdieK
The following events occurred more than ten years ago and have been recreated from police records, testimony given in court as well as detailed written and recorded confessions by Vincent Harris including a sizeable collection of audio and video recordings made by Mr. Harris over fifty years of victimizing married women! The following account is provided by the husband of his second of last victim, Mrs. Amanda Prescott.
My name is George Prescott. My wife Amanda (who I would later learn was to be capture number three in our neighbourhood) and I had moved to a well-settled quiet neighbourhood almost twelve years ago. The original plan was to settle down and have kids. Unfortunately our focus on our careers brought that dream to an abrupt halt. Little did I know at the time that my beautiful wife's body would be targeted for the corruptive sexual exploits of others including a very wealthy old man who would pay exorbitant amounts to use her in any way he pleased.
Everyone in our neighbourhood was friendly and accommodating and either employed or in business for themselves (except for a few retirees). The neighbourly bonds were strong and everyone respected and looked out for one another. Throughout the summer months there were regular neighbourhood street parties held on warm summer Saturdays or at the home of rotating volunteers when the weather was not so accommodating. Everyone got along and we showed that camaraderie by helping each other whenever there was a need. It was a first-named-basis neighbourhood.
Almost everyone in the neighborhood was married -- some with kids and some without. I would say that the average age of an adult in the neighbourhood ranged from the mid-twenties to late-thirties/early forties but there were a handful of retirees in their sixties and older. When it hit the fan and things began to fall apart I had just turned thirty-eight and my wife Amanda thirty-four.
About a year earlier Mr. and Mrs. Owen who lived five houses down from us on the same side of the street put their house up for sale. They announced that Mr. Owen had retired and they had planned to move to Florida to live out their retirement years. We were all sorry to see them go and we held (you got it) a huge party to commemorate their new journey.
The Owen's home was purchased by a Mr. Vincent Harris who kept to himself at least for the first month and a half or so. Many nosy neighbours tried to learn more about him going so far as to knock on his door to welcome him to the neighbourhood with baskets of goodies, to leave him post-it notes with a number to call and a few other obvious and mundane attempts to learn more about the then elusive new neighbour. Unfortunately he rarely answered his door and, on the rare occasion that he did, he was quite dismissive claiming to be busy unpacking refusing any help. It became somewhat of an obsession to uncover some background about him. At the time no one seemed to have noticed that a number of surveillance cameras had been strategically placed around his home.
At the first block party after Mr. Harris moved in rumours began to circulate that he was previously from Fresno California, was seventy-four years old, had been married for over fifty years with his wife Emma having recently passed away which inspired the move to our neighbourhood. The source of the rumours was unclear but most thought it was David Fletcher (another neighbour) who was a local police officer who had likely searched police data banks for anything of importance. In any case it was unclear why Mr. Harris chose our neighbourhood but again it did not seem relevant at the time. No one in the neighbourhood knew him or anyone related to him. But many of us thought that he must have relatives living somewhere close by perhaps in another community. At this point it was mostly speculation.
We would eventually learn that the old man (as he came to be known) had chosen our neighbourhood for nefarious reasons that involved targeting extremely desirable married women, something that he had been doing successfully for decades. His method of attack was a mind control ability that was beyond anyone's understanding. It was his secret weapon that he would use to control and possess the targeted women who he would, once fully controlled and trained, turn over to longtime contacts for a tidy profit. The old man's ability however did not work on everyone and the only way for him to determine who was susceptible to his abilities was to be in close quarters with them. This meant living alongside them for as long as necessary and packing up and getting out of Dodge when the job was done. Unbeknown to us he had targeted multiple women in our neighbourhood.
We would later learn by experts that the old man's abilities resulted in his creating a temporary space in a victim's mind that he called a mind room that came equipped with a heavy impenetrable door and sturdy lock. Experts believed this fictional room was very real to a victim and that it appeared deep in a victim's subconscious. The mind control ability required a swift surprise attack on the victims' willpower and control center of the brain, subduing those elements aggressively, forcing them into the mind room and then securing it with a heavy mind lock. Once secured the old man would have total control of an individual with no concern of their willpower circumventing any behavior the old man would initiate.
He didn't take over a person's body but could effectively override their mental and emotional centers making them do whatever he wanted or instructing them to ignore or later forget what he would do to them. This was not hypnosis but something far more sinister. While the victims could pound on the mind door, like prisoners banging helplessly on jail cell bars, apparently few had the ability to do so accepting or simply resigned to their fate temporarily until freed from the captivity. In any case it would do little good to protest in any way except to act as an annoyance and distraction to the old man as he worked on the victim. Once the controlled behavior was no longer required the old man would simply wipe the memory of that behavior and cause the mind room to disappear. The victim would have no idea of what had happened as they resumed their normal life but deep down a transition had begun that would soon consume them and take over their lives. The result would be an individual reshaped and recreated to conform to a new lifestyle and reality.
The old man could cause the mind room to appear and disappear at will as a result of decades of practice and experience but it was dangerous for him to do so since he would lose control of the victim as soon as the room disappeared although there was a two or three second delay. In that brief period of time the victim could quickly launch a physical attack on him unless the victim had been previously physically subdued. The old man had learned this the hard way.
While the majority of his captures were married women he had, on occasion, to control some men specifically husbands. Losing control of husbands was dangerous since he would also be controlling their wives at the same time which he likened to juggling multiple balls at once. As a result his plans were always made to avoid interactions with husbands if possible which meant getting the women alone. Thankfully his age and frail looking condition often masked most womens innate ability to sense danger which allowed him to get physically and mentally close to them.
We learned that the mind control came with a set of rules that could not be changed. One rule was that the old man could maintain it as long as the victim was within a certain distance which was somewhere in the range of a little more than one-half mile or one kilometer. Beyond that the mind room simply vanished restoring the individuals' control. It was therefore always important that the old man take measures to wipe the memory of that individual before they crossed that distance threshold. He had rarely made a mistake ensuring that the victims were completely under his control from the initial capture to the eventual release. He had learned that he could not hold on to the victim indefinitely. The closer he was to them the stronger the connection and control.