Tattletale – Part One

Evidence Item 72518 – Transcript of Facebook Livestream by Elizabeth Andrea Spears – Dated 14th June 2023


She’s invited me to dinner, and so I’ve called the police. They just left me on hold, and in fact, I’m still on hold, but who knows if anyone will eventually pick up my call, so I’m recording this to tell someone about what’s going on here.

My name is Elizabeth Spears, and that bitch is crazy.

Somebody has to know what happened to me, if I don’t make it.

Her name is Poppy. Poppy Reynolds. I don’t know if it’s a fake name or if it’s for real. Nothing about her actually adds up, but that’s not the point. The point is, she’s a murderer and you need to call the police immediately.

If you click on this livestream, take out your phone and call those workshy pigs. They won’t take you seriously, but please try. If I don’t make it, I want those bastards to be held accountable, because they let it happen.

They’re going to let me die, just like they let all those others die.

I’ve been calling and calling for months.

I’m at Flat 3, Park Grove, SW1A 2JR. Tell them that the crazy bitch is at it again.

I call the police but they never come. I call them and call them, even putting my phone up against the wall so that they can hear what I hear but all they do is promise to send someone round, and then never do.

They don’t understand what’s going on here! Nobody does.

Poppy is insane. She’s doing something to people next door, something really bad, and they’re just letting her get away with it.

She moved in last year, and she seemed like a sweet girl, I guess. She’d moved down to London from the North, looking for fame and fortune, like all the starry eyed kids do. I have to admit, I found it weird that she didn’t sound like she was from the North, at all, but she wants to be famous so maybe she likes to do different accents? I don’t know.

Can you hear her? What she’s doing to that poor girl? It’s ungodly.

There were other weird things. She never had any friends. She didn’t seem to have a job to go to. She just had visitors, men and women who came in at night, and that was all, except… they never came back out. I tried not to overthink it, I mean, maybe they left early, maybe when I was at work or something. It wasn’t my business, but something about it bothered me.

I’d hear all these noises next door, every single night without fail. Grunting, groaning, yelping and hollering, but again, it wasn’t my business.

At first, I thought it was sex. It’s not nice to hear, of course, but everyone’s had a noisy neighbour or two in their time, and she was young, pretty and in the big city for the first time, so I gave her a pass.

One night, she kept me up with all the screaming, grunting and groaning, and I was about to knock on the wall to ask her to stop when I heard something that chilled me.

“I don’t want to die!” The voice was pleading, frightened, and for a moment, I tried to entertain the idea that it was all just part of a sick role play. “Please, I have kids, they need…” There was a loud crash against the wall and the voice fell silent. I fell back, clutching my hands over my mouth and scrambling towards my bed. I grabbed the phone, dialling the police as quickly as I could, but as soon became the norm, they said they’d send somebody as soon as they could, and then never did.

They never sent anyone, and I tried to forget, but the next morning, I saw her leaving her flat, and before I’d even thought about it, I’d asked her about the noises. She just smiled sweetly at me, almost as if I was being ridiculous. I wanted to ask her more, but I had a feeling I should leave it, so I tried to forget, and I avoided her.

The noises continued. Men, women, screaming and screeching. Loud crashes against the walls. I couldn’t sleep, because I knew that something dark was going on just metres away from me.

I’d call the police again and again, hearing them get tired of me, and the noise went on and on, night after night.

I finally got confirmation of all the awful things that I suspected this past weekend. It was late and there was a racket as usual. Some poor girl, screaming like her life depended on it… probably because it did.

I’d called the police, and the useless bastard on the other end sounded so bored while I practically begged for help. I got the usual response, but I knew nobody was coming to help me.

There was a girl in danger, and I was the only one who was going to help her, so I did something that I promised myself I’d never do. I went next door and knocked on that bitch’s door.

There was a lot of shuffling and muffled screaming behind the door before it opened slightly.

She fiddled with the chain as she opened up, a soft smile, overpowered by a snarl on her lips as she spoke, and dripping down her fingertip as it toyed with the chain was blood.

Poppy told me that she’d just cut her finger while making food but there were no visible cuts on her hands. I just smiled and nodded, but as I looked over her shoulder, I spied the source of the blood.

Sprawled across the carpet was a woman, her chest cut open, blood gushed from her stomach as she reached up a weak arm, breathlessly.

She could see me, and I could see her.

Behind her was a weird looking woman, pacing back and forth in the kitchen. Nervous, pale looking, bothered by something, like she didn’t want to be there but had no choice. She caught my eye, and seemed to be pleading, without words, hoping that I’d burst in and rescue her from the hell she was trapped in.

A little girl too. A little monster, actually. Knelt by the dying woman with a wide smile, sticking her tiny fingers into the wound.

I wanted to look away, but it was all too much to take in. The sick scene got worse with every second, until I was snapped back to the hallway, face to face with a killer.

Poppy sighed, muttering something about making breakfast and slammed the door in my face. She probably knew what I had seen, and she hadn’t even tried to make an excuse for it. She just shut the door, because she knew that nobody would believe me.

Who the hell makes breakfast at night? She was just saying whatever so that she could shut that door. I know what was on the other side and I am not going to let this go.

I couldn’t save that girl. It’s been on my mind for days. I’ve been checking online for missing women, but honestly, there’s so many in this city that there’s no way to narrow it down and find her family. I don’t know what I’d say if I found them. I don’t even know if they know that she’s missing yet.

This city is so busy and it’s easy to get lost.

I know what Poppy is, and that’s why she stopped by this morning. She knocked on my door, with clean hands this time, and a big smile.

She invited me to dinner. Can you believe that?

Dinner????

Crazy!

The bitch is crazy!

I slammed the door in her face this time, running for the phone.

As you can probably guess, the police never sent anyone. After a while, I knew they never would, but I would call all the same. I think it was just out of habit, maybe for some false sense of security, some way to feel safe from whatever was happening on the other side of the walls.

I don’t know why they can’t see what I see. I know they’ve come out to our street once or twice, but they never come inside. They watch through the window for a few minutes and then leave. What good is that?

It’s like they’re afraid of what they’ll see. It’s like they don’t want to be where I am. They don’t want to know the truth, because when you know the truth, it’s all over.

I keep calling. My phone is right here with me, calling and calling, and I need you to call too, because that bitch is dangerous, and she’s on to me. She knows that I know, and now, I don’t think I’ll survive the night.

I’m all alone here and I need your help, because nobody else is…

Wait, can you guys still hear me? The connection keeps cutting out, and…

Hello?

Can anybody hear me?

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