{"id":128,"date":"2008-11-14T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2009-02-24T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T19:51:04","slug":"barbie-murders-revisited-the-plot-thickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Barbie Murders Revisited: The Plot Thickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Some of you may remember me reporting on the graphic and horrendous <strong>Barbie Murders<\/strong> some time back. Actually, it was a Ken murder, but Barbie was a person of interest in the investigation. If you missed it, here is a link to help you get caught up:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=140\" target=\"_blank\">Barbie Murders Part 1<\/a> (aka &#8211; <strong>Solving Murders At Home&#8230;<\/strong> August, 27 2008)<a href=\"http:\/\/mrsellars.com\/mrblog\/?p=140\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Well, anyway, after\u00a0next to no media attention whatsoever\u00a0(due to the election, I assume) and a low budget investigation (read: me, a scratched magnifying glass, and a couple of notes scribbled in crayon) I think there has been a break in the case.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Actually, this all\u00a0happened quite by accident, as many breaks in cases do. No one called to rat out Babs or anything, but let&#8217;s just say I happened to be in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">You see, at <strong>5:07 AM, Friday, November 14, 2008<\/strong>, I was roused from my slumber by an intense\u00a0feeling. A feeling\u00a0that was demanding in no uncertain terms\u00a0my immediate and undivided attention. At first my heart began to race as adrenalin dumped into my system, but within a matter of seconds it became apparent that the sensation was, in fact, my bladder telling me to get to the bathroom post haste. (Hey, I never said there was anything supernatural about the sensation.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So, anyway, I dragged myself from beneath the covers and stumbled down the stairs. A quick detour allowed me to go ahead and flip the switch on the coffee pot in the kitchen before backtracking and hitting the bathroom. After &#8220;taking care of business&#8221; I set about washing my hands and happened to notice something from the corner of my eye. Being the highly trained investigator that I am, I finished with my sanitizing operation then dried my digits, lest any moisture on my hands destroy or contaminate evidence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As I had done weeks before, I pulled back the shower curtain. I had to stare for a while, and even squint a bit, as I was doing all this sans glasses (or even\u00a0scratched magnifying glass for that matter)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">What I saw was so damning that I felt the need to go get my glasses just to be sure I was making no mistakes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">After obtaining my spectacles I returned to the scene, magnifying glass and crayon in hand. My corrected vision served only to show me what I had thought I had seen to begin with.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Ken, still extremely corpsified, now had his little plastic head jammed firmly back onto his shoulders. So firmly in fact that he really no longer had a neck. But, since he&#8217;s dead I don&#8217;t suppose he really needs one, so I guess it is a moot point&#8230; However, I digress&#8230; So, Ken &#8211; all dead and stuff &#8211; was now sprawled face down\u00a0on the tile with a &#8220;Hello Kitty&#8221; washcloth draped over his rigid body. <em>(I assume the coroner was out of sheets and body bags, and therefore just used the first available thing.) <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Now, this was interesting enough in itself. I mean, weeks have passed and the body still hadn&#8217;t been moved, not to mention the reattachment of the head. But the primary reason I had rushed for my glasses was what\u00a0I had seen\u00a0sitting mere inches from lifeless corpse of the victim. You see, initially I had thought I might be suffering from double vision, for no longer was there simply Babs sitting there looking upon Dead Ken with a look of satisfaction. There were now <strong>two<\/strong> Barbies hanging out at the crime scene. What was worse is that they were both wearing the same sparkly blue bathing suit.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Upon bespectacled inspection, however, I discovered that\u00a0the newcomer was a redhead, whereas Babs from the original scene was a brunette. And there they were&#8230; Both of them. But, that&#8217;s not all&#8230;dare I say it&#8230;yes, I dare. You see, they were just a bit entangled with one another, if you know what I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">At this juncture, the prevailing theory is that Babs got tired of <em>Ken the Eunuch <\/em>and decided to explore her wild side, thereby hooking up with <strong>Evil Redheaded Babs<\/strong> at a local bar. Before long it simply became a classic love triangle&#8230;and, well&#8230;we all know what can happen with those. Redheaded Babs, what with\u00a0redheads being evil and all, likely convinced her new found love that it would be a good idea to be rid of <strong>Ken the Eunuch<\/strong> once and for all&#8230; And there you have it. A crime of passion. <em>Pretty Poison<\/em> all rolled into a redhead and a brunette.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Babs-B and her girlfriend Babs-R have now\u00a0been detained for questioning. I had to borrow handcuffs from the Miranda action figure on my desk, but I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;ll miss them. She had plenty. Right now the two detainees\u00a0aren&#8217;t saying much, but they do keep smiling an awful lot. Just can&#8217;t seem to wipe the smirks off their perfect little faces.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Funeral arrangements for Ken are on hold until someone claims the body. I get the feeling we could be waiting quite a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Murv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continuing saga of sociopathic Barbie Dolls murdering Ken in my bathroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,5,77],"tags":[202,438,921,251,359,70,4477,4495,4498,2929,801,530,4500,8162,8104,87,498,300,8149,4496,816,531,119,817,846,4501,72,19,74,8099,8106,248,71,8118,969,556,8175,4497,159,8176,4499,4156,417,8117,73,2670,4279,4154,4277,1006,398,452,1036,75,527,8120],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-life","category-life","category-silliness","tag-202","tag-ac","tag-add","tag-art","tag-bar","tag-barbie","tag-barbie-dolls","tag-barbie-murders","tag-barbie-murders-part","tag-bathroom","tag-car","tag-coffee","tag-dead-ken","tag-e-k","tag-ek","tag-election","tag-evidence","tag-evil","tag-evil-redhead","tag-evil-redheaded-babs","tag-face","tag-friday","tag-fun","tag-hands","tag-heart","tag-hello-kitty","tag-homicide","tag-humor","tag-ken","tag-life","tag-love","tag-miranda","tag-murder","tag-murv","tag-ne","tag-nsa","tag-poison","tag-pretty-poison","tag-q","tag-redhead","tag-redheaded-babs","tag-right","tag-ring","tag-sellars","tag-sex","tag-show","tag-someone","tag-something","tag-stuff","tag-stumble","tag-suit","tag-time","tag-tour","tag-violence","tag-wash","tag-witch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainpanleakage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}