Several years ago my husband was talking with a man who knew the killers of a couple of women who worked in a small rural convenience store.
The women were cooking breakfast foods when the killers came to the door early that morning before time for them to open. They decided to open the door at the urging of the killers, because - although they didn’t know them - they knew who they were because they worked for a familiar logging company and bought fuel, etc., at the store. They would have been opening the doors in another 30 minutes, or so, anyway, and their regular customers would be there soon.
The killers robbed the store and killed the clerks, one of whom was a young married girl with a toddler. I knew her mother when she was a girl.
The man who knew the killers told my husband that one of the men had often made the comment that he wanted “to know what it felt like to kill somebody”. He wanted to watch them die. He got his wish.
I know a few people who still leave their windows open at certain times of the year, and who don’t always lock their vehicles and doors. I’m not one of those people. Drugs have made animals out of too many people to take that chance anymore.
Well I think you pegged it right there.
Meth/Coke/Crank has taken the soul out of so many humans.
I still state if a Zombie comes in I will shoot the darn thing.