Lisa Blankenship (karanissa) wrote in oblivionrp, @ 2009-02-22 23:05:00 |
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Karen's Story
Who: Lisa
Where: Cyamites Net Café
When: Early Tuesday Morning
Lisa stepped hesitantly into the net café attached to Cyamites and looked around. No once else was in the room; good! She selected a computer carefully, choosing one positioned so that she would be able to see anyone else entering the room and would be able to clear the screen before that person could see what she was looking at. There, that one. She sat down and logged into the internet. Bringing up her usual search engine, she typed in the words “Atlanta News Karen Chandler” and was instantly rewarded with a number of articles. She clicked on the topmost one.
Atlanta - Authorities are seeking a woman suspected of embezzling $400,000 from HumanCorp Insurance Company and murdering her husband and another woman. Police believe the woman, Karen Chandler, 23, illegally transferred the money into her bank account by tampering with computer records, then withdrew the money before returning to her home and shooting her husband, Allen Chandler, 27, and coworker Lisa Blankenship, 25. Sources close to the investigation indicate that Blankenship was a friend of the Chandlers, and may have been having an affair with Mr. Chandler.
Mr. Chandler and Ms. Blankenship were already dead when the police arrived after receiving reports of gunfire from a neighbor, according to police spokeswoman Allison Edwards. No weapon was found at the scene. Edwards said police found signs of a struggle, but did not elaborate. The suspect apparently fled the scene of the crime in her car, a blue 2007 Ford Mustang. Edwards declined to release further details about the crime scene.
Edwards said that the suspect, the former Karen Sue Higgins, originally of Cincinnati, moved to the area two years ago after graduating from the University of Louisville. She and Allen Chandler had been married for a little over one year at the time of the murder. The suspect had been employed at HumanCorp as an accountant.
The suspect is described as a white female, 23 years of age, with short black hair and blue eyes. She is 5’ 4" in height and weighs approximately 110 to 120 pounds. She was last seen wearing a white blouse, gray skirt, matching gray jacket, and black high-heeled shoes. She should be considered armed and dangerous. If sighted, do not approach yourself, but notify police as soon as possible.
The article went on from there quoting people who had known Karen saying how shocked they were, but there didn’t seem to be much point in continuing. She skipped to the next article, which proclaimed that police had discovered Karen’s car abandoned in a parking lot but that Karen herself still was nowhere to be found. Other articles talked about the funerals of Allen Chandler and Lisa Blankenship, and how the search for Karen Chandler was continuing but had so far proven unsuccessful.
Glumly, “Lisa” logged off from the internet. As she had suspected, the police and the press had gotten things wrong. She had hoped that maybe they would have figured out that it had been the real Lisa Blankenship who had embezzled the money, and had conspired with Karen’s husband to frame her for it. Maybe they would have figured out that Karen had stumbled onto Lisa’s and Allen’s plans, and they had tried to kill her, and that Karen had killed them instead in self-defense. But those hopes were all but dead now. At least they hadn’t figured out where Karen had gone. They didn’t know that Karen had hitchhiked her way to Miami, and had boarded a new cruise ship, the Nausicaä, for its maiden voyage, passing herself off as “Lisa Blankenship” in hopes of eluding the authorities until she could figure out how to get out of this situation in which she had become trapped.
Tears began to flow as Karen considered her seemingly hopeless situation. She knew that, technically, she hadn’t broken any laws (well, except for running from the authorities), but she didn’t see a way to convince the authorities or a jury of that. And even though the killings had been in self-defense, she was still haunted by guilt for having killed Allen and Lisa, two people whom she had loved until that fateful day. Get control of yourself before someone comes in and sees you crying, she told herself. Wiping the tears away, she resumed her identity as “Lisa”, turned off the computer, and headed back out onto the ship in search of breakfast.