Chilling stories and accounts of murder and mystery are a
s
old as the species of human kind itself,
intwining
themselves back into our darkest human history far beyond
those
advancements of paper and ink that so many now take as a given and a
for granted reality. In 1700's England William
Blackstone while setting out Englisg Common Law related,
"
When
a person, of sound memory and discretion,
unlawfully kills any
reasonable creature in being and under the king's peace,
with
malice aforethought, either express or implied."
According to Blackstone, English Common Law identified murder as a
public wrong.
According to common law, murder is
considered to be
malum in se,
that is, an act which is
evil within itself.
An act such as murder is wrong or evil by
its very nature.
And it is the very nature of the act
which
does not require any specific detailing
or definition in the law
to consider murder a crime.
Mystery, that enigma often so
wrapped tightly
in a
combination of our deepest of human curiousity
and our
innermost darkest fears,
can be of
the things that keep one up at night,
imagine
sounds that may or may not be near,
situations, events, and other unfoldings both earthly and
often far beyond
that
continue in our memories
long
after
that very
first hair stands up
at the
back of ones neck.
Something that has not been,
Or cannot be
explained,
Yet it still exisits... 
