Don't tell me there was nothing incestuous in the relationship between Fred Waterfield, and his cousin, David A, Gore. And to think this all happened in my virtual backyard. No, I ma not talking cyber speak, darlings; what I mean is that, next to Highland Park, New Jersey, Vero Beach, Florida, where my father and his siblings and spouses moved to, was like my second home town for thirty years, as I visited it back and forth, from New York.
The case of the Kissin-Killin' Cousins was aired on an ID program the other night, and I was struck by how one broadcaster instantly called Vero Beach, "Zero Beach," as I had heard that expression for years and it was instantly recognizable to me. I mean, the place is not exactly cutting edge. It is so quiet at night, there, that I can hear the trains passing through. It wants to be Southern, but is not lyric enough, like the "To Kill A Mockingbird," or Gothic and dramatic enough, like New Orleans. And it is inhabited by both White Trash, and the brain dead. What else can be said? I mean, it's Florida!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Gore was a real sicko. His mother used to read him Bible stories while he sat on her lap, and she was wearing only a bra and panties. He was practically sucking on her tittie. I mean, if this is Christianity, give me Cecil B. De Mille! Please, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He and cousin Fred Waterfield were close as children, and grew up together. Along the way, what with their unstable upbringings, they developed some sexual fetishes, that evolved into deviance. David, when young, was the better looking of the two, but he was more Fred's acolyte, because he knew all the right moves and talk to get the girls. David didn't.
One thing David knew better than most, from his work experience, were the orange grove and swamp areas around Vero Beach, which was, understandably, less built up then, than it is now. He knew all the isolated places, and Fred used David for this knowledge, so, for a time they became Vero Beach's official serial killers. It all began in
1981, when a mother and daughter, 48-year-old Hisang Huang Ling, and her 17-year old daughter, Ying Hua Ling, vanished on February 9, 1981. Gore abducted them, took them to an orange grove, and raped them. I am sure Fred was with him. After his capture, on December 7, 1983, he lad law officers to two 30 gallon pesticide drums in an isolated grove, where the remains of the two women were stored.
Judy Kay Daley, a 35 -year old woman, visiting her family in the area, was abducted from Round Point Park, in Indian River County, on July 15, 1981. She was eventually found, having been raped and strangeld in an isolated orange grove. The deed is attributed to David, but I have no doubt Fred was there!
Technically speaking, it takes three killings of the same nature to qualify one as being a serial killer, and the cousins earned that distinction on May 20, 1983, when they picked up teen aged girls hitchhiking--Angelica LaVellee and Barbara Ann Byer, both 14. This time, they drove to Vero Beach, while Fred had his way with the girls. Then David shot both in the head. Eventually, Byer's skull was found in an isolated grove, west of Vero Beach, proving the cousins had dumped both girls there. Angelica's body, supposedly dumped into one of the town's many canals along I-95, was never found.
It was the next victim that proved their downfall. On July 26, 1983, Lynn Elliot, 17. and her friend, Regan Martin, 14, were picked up hitchhiking by the cousins. They were taken to Gore's parents home--they were on vacation, locked in separate rooms and raped. Elliot tried to escape, but Gore came after her with a gun. A young boy suffered the trauma of witnessing this while just happening to be out riding his bicycle, but Lynn was shot in the head by Gore. This led police to the house, where they found Regan Martin in an attic, still alive, nude, her body tied with an electrical cord. Lynn fled nude; her body was found that way.
What is incomprehensible to me is that while Gore got the death penalty, eventually being executed by lethal injection on April 12, 2012, Waterfield got two consecutive Life terms, none under 50 years. Both should have burned at the stake!
They were sick. But mark my words, consummated or not, there was something sexual with the cousins, at least on David Gore's part. I think he was attracted to Fred, and would do anything he said. And look what happened. A relationship very similar, but with less intellectual capacity, to Leopold and Loeb. And in Vero Beach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But that's not all, darlings! Something evil had crept into Vero Beach in 1981. On July 27, serial killer Ottis Toole abducted and murdered 6-year-old Adam Walsh, whose severed head was found, two weeks later, on August 10, by two fishermen, in one of Vero Beach's many canals.
And this is where my father and relations on his side chose to retire to! Not me, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!
Florida may be called the "Sunshine State," but, judging from this, and what I have seen on "Cops," it has an underlying lethality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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