![]() ![]() Just like the Ninety-Eye Slasher’s machete. While Dark Mill South hadn’t used a machete on those eight campers, the felling axe he did use to deadly effect that weekend had, according to forensic analysis, been swung from the left, not the right. Either the Ninety-Eye Slasher had been locked up for some minor offense or he had hung up the white pantyhose he’d been using as a mask and moved on to other pastures, other victim pools.Ī campground in North Dakota, perhaps? And then Rapid City? It had been two months since the last one turned up in pieces. And there were definitely bodies piling up alongside I-90. ![]() Nothing to suggest a killer prowling the rest stops and truck stops.Ī finger tracing US Route 12 west out of Bowman, though, connects with I-94 just over the Montana state line, and, though called I-94, it’s really what I-90 should have been if it hadn’t taken a sharp turn south. And there had been no unaccounted-for bodies turning up over there. To the east it was smaller and smaller farming communities, and no major highways or interstates until I-29, which was nearly Minnesota. this couldn’t be the same killer, could it?Īt which point someone probably unfolded the map to see what roadways fed into Bowman. The campground this “Butcher” had sliced through in Bowman, North Dakota, was 160 miles directly north of Rapid City, where murders happened two and a half hours from each other, with major arteries connecting them, and on successive months. It was those five victims who got the authorities piecing his history together-what could be his history. Next it was the Dakotas, where he was known as the Bowman Butcher, responsible for eight dead at Pioneer Trails campground over a single weekend, and then two weeks later in South Dakota he became the Rapid City Reaper, who didn’t use a bladed weapon at all but hung his five victims by the neck, one per month. According to the one interview he’d ever given, Montana had been a bad time for him. The “slasher” part was close to right, anyway: Dark Mill South was using a machete by then. It was supposed to have been the I-90 Slasher, since Dark Mill South’s reign of terror had extended up and down I-90 from Billings to Butte, but the intern typing it into the crawl on the newsfeed had flipped it around to “90-I.” By that evening, “Ninety-Eye” had gone viral, and so was another boogeyman born. His manners extended to six men and women that winter of 2013.Ĭome spring melt, the Eastfork Strangler lobbed his branding iron into the Chugwater and drifted up into Montana, where the newspapers dubbed him the Ninety-Eye Slasher. It wasn’t a Native American thing-Dark Mill South was Ojibwe, out of Minnesota-it was, he would say later, just polite, after all he’d put them through. Not because he ever hung his hat in the Eastfork bunkhouse or rode their fences, but because he’d somehow come into possession of one of their 246 branding irons, and had taken the time with each victim to get that brand glowing red, to leave his mark.įor that season he’d been propping his dead up behind snow fences, always facing north. His name was Dark Mill South, but that wasn’t the only name he went by.Ĭowpoking through Wyoming, working the feedline, as they used to call it, he’d been the Eastfork Strangler. In the summer of 2015 a rough beast slouched out of the shadows and into the waking nightmares of an unsuspecting world. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.ĭON'T FEAR THE REAPER is the page-turning sequel to MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, out from Saga Press in August 2022! Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Reaper unfolder serial#Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. December 12th, 2019: Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones. ![]()
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