THE RECKONING OF JACK THE RIPPER MARK BARRESI When a series of multiple murders of mutilated females throws the city of Sand Diego, into a Panic stricken frenzy a city wide task force is put in place to uncover the unknown killer, who the police have called; "The Entity", for concealing his identity from police, forensics and witnesses up to his latest victim. Until detective Ed Brooks, confronted the "Entity", in a bloody last ditch effort to stop the mass killer. An encounter that almost cost Brooks his own life, now four years later, the "Entity", murders have started again. As Brooks and his team are once again charged to stop the killer, and unearth his reasoning for committing the most brutal serial slayings since the original; "Jack the Ripper", style murders. Over a century before in Whitechaple England, with the help of FBI profiler Stephanie Morgan. They will uncover a connection between the recent murders now, to the original Ripper suspect so many years ago. A link that will connect modern forensics and the history of the world's most infamous first serial killer will all culminate together with the action and fury, for a shocking ending in, "The Reckoning of Jack the Ripper". Combining both fiction and historical facts of the; "Jack the Ripper", murders of 1888, England. Author Mark Barresi, has set out on his own personal quest to name the most likely suspect of the world's most elusive and first serial killer ever known.

THE RECKONING OF JACK THE RIPPER

Entity UnknownBy Mark Barresi

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Copyright © 2012 Mark Barresi
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ISBN: 978-1-4772-1287-5

Chapter One

Veronica Wood was walking the unsafe streets of National City. Just south of Downtown, San Diego, this area was both a mixture of commercial and residential areas. As Veronica would earn her living by meeting men, along the truck stops and rest areas, and take her charges back to either one of the many, cheap motels or better class hotels. To accommodate her men as to their tastes, Veronica was a very attractive twenty six year old brunette. She was about five foot four, with long black hair and dark brown eyes. She wore very short daisy duke denim shorts, with a black button down blouse, under a short leather jacket, with black pump heeled shoes. She wanted to bare as much of her body as she could, for any man walking by her, or driving by. To catch their attention to her very slim and athletic body.

She was walking around the corner of the diner, a spot most frequented of truck drivers as they would stop and park to go in and get a bite to eat or coffee. As they would get ready to embark of their long journeys on the interstates to head north out of San Diego, it was just past one AM, as Veronica looked up and noticed the four door sedan drive slowly passed her from her back. She did smile at the driver if indeed he was a male, to get his attention. As she smiled to herself, hoping she didn't have to walk the streets for long to find a man this particular cool night of, May the seventeenth. She would charge him the usual amount for a three hour meeting; she would ask him for four hundred dollars cash. Not an expensive amount these days she thought, for an escort to ask. She stopped in place, as the car came to a stop and made a u-turn over the double yellow lines, to come back in her direction.

His heart started to beat faster, as this was to be his first meeting with a prostitute and his first cleansing of the low class women he has come to hate. For he did not think of it as murder that he was about to commit, but a cleansing of scum and pure trash, that he wanted to think of them as, just like his great uncle did. So many years before, he was taken by Veronica's, exquisite body, and nice shapely long legs. As he slowed to a stop and lowered the passenger side window to greet her; "Hello sugar," she said with a wide smile, showing off all nice white teeth. She asked him, if he was interested in a good time tonight.

"Hello my dear, how are you this fine evening?" The doctor asked her, "I'm sorry, but I am nervous being that this is my first time meeting a young lady in this manner". Veronica, amused by his innocent demeanor, she thought he was to well mannered and too soft spoken to be an undercover cop, out to bust her tonight.

"Well, why don't you open the door and let me in, and we can talk about it sugar." She replied with a laugh, as he unlocked the passenger side door and she gently opened it and slid so gently into the leather seat. She thought to herself, this was a nice car and he was very pleasant and mature. This was a good catch for her tonight.

"I'm Veronica, thank you for stopping by and meeting me". She told him, as he smiled and said it was a pleasure to meet a very beautiful woman on this pleasant early morning.

"So what's you're name?" She asked him. He told her his name was Nathan.

"Is that you're first name, or last name, Nathan?"

"Does that really matter? I don't mean to sound rude, but I don't like to be very open to you right now. Being this is my first time I have ever met with one, like you." He replied, with a nervous look in his eyes.

"It's all right Nathan, no need to be nervous with me. I just want you to relax and give you the experience, of the first time you will never forget". With that reaction from her, Nathan becomes more confident, as he got to know her more each moment. He asked her, if she would meet her men, at her place or at motels only? She remarked, she only met her contacts at motels and hotels only, especially being this was their first meeting together, she felt safer being in a public place. He smiled, and asked if they could meet at the, Twin Palms motel. That was less than a mile away; she smiled at him and said that motel was fine with her. As Nathan, told her; "great". He drove off to the motel.

"What made you pick that motel"? She asked him.

"It is small and kind of cozy I thought, being this is my first time. I just wanted to be in a very comfortable setting for myself". He replied to her.

Veronica, asked him to tell her about himself. What he did for work and how old he was. He told her, he was fifty six years old, and divorced with no children. As for work, he told her he was in medicine. But did not go into any details, as to what he actually did. As they entered the small motel that held twenty four rooms on two floors. Nathan parked his car, in the middle row. He instructed, he would go into the office and secure a room for them that seemed to be very empty except for two other vehicles parked in the motel's lot. As he exited the car, Veronica thought to herself that Nathan kept himself in very good shape for his age. He gave her the appearance he exercised and ate well, to be fit.

He had a full head of dark gray hair, which was brushed straight back. As his height was just under six feet tall. She watched as he entered into the office as she opened her small purse and took out her compact powder and lipstick. As he lowered her passenger side visor, to open the mirror as she added more makeup to her beautiful face. As she noticed him returning to the car with a key in his right hand, she quickly placed the items back in her small purse. As he went to the back of the car and opened the trunk, he took out a carry vinyl bag, about eighteen inches long. As Veronica exited the car to meet him, he told her, their room was number twelve just straight ahead from where he parked. As she told him first, the amount of her donation, she would not only meet with him for that amount and for only three hours. As he agreed, that was all right with him. She looked at the bag in his left hand puzzled.

"I hope you're not into anything kinky? Because I'm not into that sought of thing." She said with a look, of seriousness in her eyes.

"Neither Am I", he replied as they both smiled and he motioned for them to enter the room, that he opened with his key. Veronica went over to the king sized bed, as she removed her jacket and placed her purse on the side table next to the lamp. That she turned on, as Nathan left only the light to the foyer of the room on. As he watched her remove her blouse and shorts. As she kicked off her pumps, she was now stand in her black laced matching bra and panties. As Nathan opened his wallet, and took out four, crisp hundred dollar bills. As he handed them to her, and Veronica pleasantly took it from him, as she placed the money in her purse and returned it back top the side table.

"Come on handsome, don't you want to have the time of your life now?" She said, as she slid back the top comforter and sheets to the bed, and relaxed her sexy body, to entice him to join her on the bed. As he began to take off his button down denim shirt and he kicked off his black leather shoes and removed his jeans. Veronica, was stunned as she expected to see him in his underwear, he was now wearing what seemed to be dark black hospital scrubs. She asked in surprise what he was wearing. He replied, they were cotton pajamas that made him feel very comfortable to wear, before they got...