Pam spent about an hour there, then decided to walk to a McDonalds, less than a mile away, to get a Coke. At about 8:30 they left for a mutual friend’s house in Woodridge. She spent part of that night playing cards with a friend as a winter storm that would drop 7 inches of snow bore down on the Chicago West Suburbs. Pamela Maurer was 16 years old, a Downers Grove student. He was also a recent graduate of Downers Grove… he was one of them, hiding in plain sight. Students who resided in places with names like Butternut Court and Crabtree Street, in Chicago satellite communities like Woodridge, Aurora and Lisle, couldn’t know that a murderer was among them. On January 12th, 1976, the setting at Downers Grove South High School was very much like that, placid and bucolic, but there was no ominous soundtrack to signal the impending crime. A killer watches, stalks his intended victim, and then the soundtrack goes silent… everything gets quiet… a jump scare is coming, and the viewer knows the killer is about to strike.Ī villain in a black robe and mask leaps from the shadows and the terror becomes real. Then, a skilled filmmaker injects a bit of musical score, something dark, intended to stir a sense of foreboding in the viewer and build tension. Vibrant, smiling, happy students populate the campus of the local high school, unprepared. Usually, the story is set in a place like Downers Grove to provide a contrast for the horrors that will come later. It starts in a place with an idyllic name and peaceful reputation, a place like Downers Grove, Illinois. In the movies, we always know when something bad is about to happen.
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