Archived from Uxå Nguyåtuy (1991) - Police Arrest Suspected ‘Darling Killer’ after 17 year manhunt

Police today have released a press statement, saying that they have arrested Samu Gabriel Toivonen, an employee at Smælta Industries, after a 17 year manhunt for the so-called ‘Darling Killer`. Toivonen, who for the last three days has been held in Ditutu Central Police Station, has given very little details about his life to anyone, despite the fact that both his wife and his three daughters all agree that there was “something off” about him.

The Darling Killings started in 1974 when three children were snatched from their cots, just days after the Shituthing cut funding for all the main Dexångrs’, especially Ditutu Dexångr where the babies were located, in the `Special Ward`. The only similarity between the children, apart from them being native Whitmountan, was the fact that they were all born with Althaus syndrome, which is symptomatic of the skull pressing in on the Temporal lobe and the Parietal lobe. A city wide man hunt was created, with the police being criticized by the parents of the children for not being thorough in their investigation, which most people attributed to the fact that the head of the police force in Ditutu was a staunch Catholic, and had publicly said on record that “children that are not born fully shouldn’t be born at all”.

After 4 weeks of searching, the manhunt was called off and the children were declared `dead in absentina`. However, 3 days after the declaration of this, letters were sent to the parents of the children, describing them as “healthy and as full of life as when I gathered my little Darlings”. These letters, the so called `Darling Letters` has become infamous in recent years for its use in the American film “My Darling Children”, staring Brian Cannaron as The Killer. Many phycologists who have studied the letter have characterised the man behind them as “cool, calm and collective; he sees that the world is dismissing children, so has taken it upon himself to both care and then eventually get rid of them for the greater good”. Two weeks after the letters, one of the Darlings washed up on Ditutu beach; it had been washed of all evidence and only had a white, cotton shawl on around their head and torso. The rest of their body was naked. Upon later inspection, it was found that this was the son of the Inidátu family, who have wished for him to remain nameless. Over the next few days, the rest of the bodies washed up, all in the same cloth and all with the same wounds – death by smothering or strangulation, as well as evidence of rape and sodomization.

Then, as quickly as the kidnappings started, they stopped – for a while. Four years later, another 3 children were taken from their families, but this time, the killer had evolved. Originally, they were taken from underfunded and under-protected cots. This time, however, they were taken in broad daylight, from Ditutu Yiláthur, the oldest national park in the southern part of the country. However, the timeline of events was the same, almost to the hour when the bodies were found. This is when thy finally stopped, however some criminologists suggest that the Little Legs Killer was the same person.