Halfway up the stairs, the flashlight beams picked out blood on the stairway carpet. Their flashlights cut through the interior darkness. When Officer Michael Reddings arrived, they used Valerie’s key to gain entrance through the front door. Three-year-old David (left) and five-year-old Bryan Freeman He returned back to the front and waited for backup. He went to the back, where he found the sliding glass doors open, exactly as Valerie had left them. The rear window of the van bore the tracks of a windshield wiper, though the van looked like it hadn’t been moved.Īs Valerie had said, the front door was locked.
In the driveway were two vehicles: a car and, parked behind that, a van. He noticed that today’s paper was still on the porch. Officer Pochran walked slowly up the snow-covered driveway. “Through the back door,” she answered between sobs. Related: PINT-SIZED MAYHEM: 11 SCARY MOVIES STARRING VERY EVIL CHILDREN She wore tortoise-shell eyeglasses that distorted the shape of her eyes. “It’s Freeman,” said a small, mousy woman, who stepped forward. “Who’s the owner?” Pochran asked the crowd. The officer followed their direction and parked his cruiser. When he got to the residence, Pochran saw that people had already gathered outside the Ehrgott home. Body of a young boy has been found.” Two-year-old Bryan with his parents Brenda and Dennis Freeman in 1980. “Proceed to Ehrgott residence on Gale Avenue. Officer Michael Pochran picked up the mike and pressed a button. Related: WHEN MURDER RUNS IN THE FAMILYĪ few moments later, the radio crackled to life in the blue and white.
His mom immediately dialed “911” to report a homicide. “Erik is dead,” she said, in a shaky voice. She paused for a moment before the closed door and then pushed it open.Ī few minutes later, there was a frantic knock at the Ehrgott house next door. With a growing sense of dread, she climbed the stairs and ran down the hallway to Erik’s bedroom. It was dark, very dark, and eerily silent. Inside, the house was cold enough to see her breath pluming in the frigid air. Growing alarmed, Valerie went around the side of the house and tried the sliding glass door. Dennis, a school janitor, never missed a day of work. Valerie had a key, but before she used it, she decided to step around to the side and try the garage door. Her sister-in-law, Brenda, always left it unlocked when she was home, and she was home most of the time. They could be brutes when angered, and with the cruel use of their strength and size, they could inflict tremendous pain.Īll this Valerie knew when, at 5 p.m., her hand reached out for the front doorknob. Related: THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT: 3 DIABOLICAL TEENAGE MURDERERS But clearly, Valerie realized, Erik had felt himself in some sort of jeopardy, and though he didn’t say from whom, it was clear that he feared his older, more powerful brothers. In him rested the one great hope, that the line of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Freeman family would be redeemed. They felt that the younger boy, always kissing up to his parents, was spoiled, while they were held in nothing but the utmost contempt.ĭavid and Bryan picked on Erik, teased him, and chastised him for his religious beliefs. Her favorite nephew, Erik, was suffering the most. Not wishing to overstay her welcome and seeing that things had gotten out of hand, Valerie left.
“Maybe if you move out, things might be better,” Dennis had suggested. That was the usual thing with Dennis these days. Dennis had seen what was happening and knew that Jehovah had chosen him, yet he felt powerless to stop the cruel way his sons were treating his sister. It had been Jehovah’s will that David and Bryan would rebel against their parents and pick on Valerie Freeman by urinating in her shampoo and leaving chicken bones in her bed. Whatever Jehovah wanted for her would be his will. There was a bottle of 12-year-old Scotch that Dennis kept hidden, to be opened on the day she got married. Since 1978, Valerie Freeman had lived with her brother and sister-in-law.
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