There were 48 in all.
All sex workers, found up and down I-24 along his route.
I had no idea Tommy was anything other than a good guy when we met.
We met we were 19 at a bar a town over from the one I grew up in.
We moved in together after a few months and even years after that we almost never fought.
We felt like a team.
We moved in tandem, always looking out for the other persons back.
We never had a power struggle like a lot of couples I know.
Being with Tommy came naturally.
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Then one day the police came.
I was upstairs in the bath and I heard a commotion.
A female officer came with me while I put on the first outfit I saw.
The police wanted to talk to me too.
They asked me to bring a calendar if I kept one.
I work from home so its not like I usually have an alibi.
I was in shock.
I was crying a lot.
They seemed to understand.
One of them dropped a box of tissues on the desk and left me alone for awhile.
Tommy was atruck driver.
One of those big eighteen wheelers.
Hed go back and forth on I-24 like Sisyphus.
We both wanted a lot of kids and a big house in town.
None of the victims had any money, so that wasnt a motive.
They were just sex workers.
They go up and down I-24 just like Tommy.
Tommys problem was that there were just so many bodies.
It got too difficult to ignore.
I guess it doesnt matter, once you come from money everything is a headline.
People probably would have liked that.
They would have said I always wondered what it would be like, I fantasized about it too.
She was stronger than me.
People like to read about Tommy.
They want to know what made a good boy turn bad.
They say he had a thing for making women scared.
Like, he got off on it.
They say police found semen on all the bodies.
They couldnt get enough.
They all wanted to talk to me.
They wanted more pictures of him, more details.
Maybe something he said once.
They found a lot of the womens jewelry in our house.
Lockets and bracelets and rings that cost some trailer park boy a few hours work at Walmart.
They found a baggy of crushed up Benedryl they think he put in their drinks.
As if he needed to.
Those girls would do anything.
They were hungry, hungry, hungry.
If you smiled and were kind to them, theyd believe anything else you told them.
Theyd do anything you told them.
None of his victims ever got away.
Thats how you know he was really good.
He didnt leave any witnesses.
It was all very clean.
But someone called in a convincing tip and then they found all the evidence in our house.
Theyre gonna put a needle in his arm and hes gonna keep saying hes innocent.
That hes a god-fearing man.
We dont live in astand by your mankind of world anymore.
I left him and I told the papers and the cameras that I wanted to stand up for women.
I wouldnt be with a man like that, if Id have know he was a man like that.
I was tricked the way so many women are.
He doesnt know thats why I insisted on traveling with him so often.
Of course hed doze off and Id get bored.
He always slept like a log.
One time after he fell asleep a girl had the nerve to come to the room.
Shed seen his truck and thought hed want some company, it can getso lonelyon the road you know.
I taught her what happens to girls who make men cheat.
And then I thought I might as well teach Tommy what happens to men who cheat, too.
And then it just became this whole big thing.
I could see something bigger than this town and this state.
I realizedIcould be bigger than all that.
Ive been talking to a lot of media.
This is all just so glamorous.
Im thinking about moving to LA.
My boyfriend is one of Americas most prolific serial killers.
Do you know anyone who might want to interview me?
Im on the lookout for a screenwriter, too.
I wish Drew Barrymore were 10 years younger so she could play me.
I just dont think its that believable with the age difference.
I always liked her.
I really do hope we can get Billie Lourd.
MaybeBill Skarsgardcan play Tommy.
Just imagine the attention the press would give that.
Maybe we can turn this all into a franchise somehow.
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