Running Wild

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Adam Phillips. Running Wild

J. G. BALLARD. Running Wild

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Introduction

From the Forensic Diaries of Dr Richard Greville, Deputy Psychiatric Adviser, Metropolitan Police

Postscript8 December 1993

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The camera pauses over him and then enters the house, following the bloody footprints through the open door. Garfield and his wife had made numerous trips to Hong Kong, and the rooms are filled with pieces of chinoiserie – large porcelain vases stand on the blackwood furniture, and there are pairs of Ming horses and jade figurines. Surprisingly, none have been disturbed, suggesting that the murderers had approached their victims without surprise. The housekeeper, Mrs West, lies shot below the marble mantelpiece in the drawing-room, interrupted while doing her dusting. In an upstairs bathroom the camera finds Mrs Garfield, a handsome woman in her late forties, slumped against the glass door of the shower stall, her yellow toothbrush still in her hand.

All trace of the Garfields’ sixteen-year-old son, Alexander, had vanished. His bedroom, study and bathroom were undisturbed. Only in his mother’s blood flowing across the bathroom tiles could be seen the smeared prints of Alexander’s rubber-cleated shoes, left behind as he was seized and swept away by his abductors.

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