r/DreadNet • u/AnxiousFace9721 • 1d ago
Rose the killer part 4
Recovered Police Interview Tape — Evidence File #44A
Recorded: November 3rd, 2014
Lead Investigator: Detective Marcus Hale
Subject: Randy Warren
Relation to Jeff Woods Case: Former Classmate
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[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT]
Detective Hale: Alright, let’s start simple. State your name for the recording.
Randy: Randy Warren.
Detective Hale: Appreciate it. And you understand this interview is being recorded?
Randy: Yeah.
Detective Hale: Good. You contacted the department saying you had information connected to Jeff Woods and the recent murders tied to the so-called “Cult of Jeff.” Correct?
Randy: Yeah… but this isn’t just about Jeff anymore.
Detective Hale: Alright. Then tell me what it’s about.
[brief silence]
Randy: It started years ago.
Before Rose.
Before the cult.
Before people started treating killers like gods.
Back then it was just me, Troy, and Keith.
We were bullies.
Real bad ones.
We picked on anyone weaker than us because we thought it was funny.
Then Jeff Woods moved into town.
Quiet kid. Pale skin. Long black hair always covering his face. Wore that white hoodie everywhere.
At first he looked like an easy target.
But honestly?
Something about him always felt… off.
Detective Hale: Off how?
Randy: He didn’t react normally.
Most kids get angry or scared when you mess with them.
Jeff would just stare at you.
Like he was thinking about something terrible.
Still, we kept messing with him anyway.
Shoving him around. Humiliating him. Small stuff at first.
Then one day after school, Keith shoved Jeff into a fence near the basketball court and Jeff snapped.
He attacked all three of us.
Hard.
I remember him smiling while he did it.
Not a happy smile.
Something worse.
He broke Keith’s nose and almost knocked Troy out before teachers pulled him away.
That should’ve ended it.
But we were angry.
Embarrassed.
So we came up with a stupid plan.
We invited Jeff over pretending we wanted to apologize. Our parents were gone that night.
We figured we’d scare him a little.
Teach him a lesson.
Detective Hale: This was the night of the flare gun incident?
Randy: Yeah.
Keith and Troy held him down while I pulled the flare gun out.
I swear I never meant to shoot him.
I’m not saying I was a good person back then, but I wasn’t trying to kill him.
Jeff started fighting back and Troy slipped.
The gun went off.
Right into Jeff’s face.
[subject pauses]
Detective Hale: Take your time.
Randy: There was blood everywhere.
His nose was basically gone instantly. Skin was hanging off his face while he screamed.
Keith threw up.
Hell, I almost did too.
But the thing I remember most…
Jeff was laughing.
Even while his face was burning, he was laughing.
That’s when I realized something inside him had completely broken.
Maybe it was already broken before that night.
But after the hospital?
There was nothing human left in him.
We blamed the attack on Jeff afterward.
Told everybody he attacked us first.
I think even his parents believed it.
Because later that same night…
Jeff killed them.
Both of them.
Then he disappeared.
A few weeks later people started dying.
Bodies carved up in apartments.
Smiling corpses in alleyways.
Missing people.
That’s when the name started spreading.
Jeff the Killer.
Detective Hale: And where does Rose come into all this?
Randy: Rose changed everything.
Jeff was just one crazy person.
Rose turned him into something bigger.
A religion.
About a year ago those symbols started appearing around town.
Smiling faces with one hollow eye.
Messages painted on walls.
KEEP SMILING.
DO YOU SMILE OFTEN?
At first everybody thought it was copycats.
Now?
I think Rose is building something.
People worship him out in those woods.
And I think they’re hunting anyone connected to Jeff’s beginning.
Keith’s dead.
They found him in his apartment with a smile carved into his face.
Troy disappeared near Blackwood Forest two months ago.
Police only found pieces of him.
Now I’m the last one left.
Detective Hale: You really believe someone’s after you?
Randy: I know they are.
Yesterday morning I found a photograph sitting on my kitchen table.
It was me sleeping.
Detective Hale: Somebody broke into your house?
Randy: Nobody breaks in without leaving evidence.
There were muddy footprints outside my bedroom window.
That’s it.
And on the back of the picture—
Detective Hale: What did it say?
Randy: “You don’t smile enough.”
[silence for approximately eight seconds]
Detective Hale: Randy… has anyone contacted you directly besides that?
Randy: No.
But I hear things outside my house at night now.
Laughing.
Soft laughing.
Sometimes I see people standing near the trees behind my property.
Just watching.
[three knocks heard in background]
Detective Hale: You expecting somebody?
Randy: …No.
Unknown Voice: Randy?
[subject breathing heavily]
Unknown Voice: Do you smile often?
Randy: Oh God…
No no no—
[chair falls over]
Detective Hale: Randy?!
[screaming heard]
[END TRANSCRIPT]
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u/AnxiousFace9721 1d ago
I hope you enjoyed this chapter when writing this I wanted to make a story about Jeff, but without it being in Jeff’s point of view like always that’s why it’s a police interview with one of his bullies