Elha was 19 years old, she was a happy girl. Thanks to a car accident her way of reasoning didn't match her age, she was basically like a 13-year-old girl. But she made a mistake, she was in love with me, she didn't take the right precautions and she got pregnant. Since then I began to study my situation in this “secret” relationship.
Her mother offered support and asked her to come home to take care of her and the baby, but Elha refused. In her mind she had made up a fantasy where I would agree to live with her at some point.
She was excited about her pregnancy. I don't know how she could accept living alone with an unplanned pregnancy and especially without my support. I don't want to take responsibility for a son, much less with a woman like that. Her mother doesn’t know that I’m the father of that baby her daughter is carrying and she will, probably, never know but her daughter is hopeful about me.
But something happened.
Margaret, her mother, hasn't seen her daughter for 3 days. Generally, Elha calls her whenever she wants, if two days go by without calling one calls the other, and whenever Margaret senses that something is wrong she goes to Elha's house and rings her door several times.
This time no one answers. Elha doesn't answer either her phone or the door, so her mother calls the police and asks them to open the door of the house because she was afraid that something would happen to her daughter, since she didn’t answer. After explaining everything that normally happened between her and her daughter, as well has her daughters situation, the police agreed and opened the door. They let Margaret pass and they stayed downstairs while she went up the stairs, calling for her daughter.
Suddenly they hear the mother's cry. They run upstairs to see Margaret, looking at a body in a room, with its head covered and a rope around its neck.
Elha had committed suicide. There was a suicide letter in the room as well. Elha wrote that she didn't want to have a fatherless child, that she felt very lonely and no one could understand her, which is why she makes the decision to leave this world.
The investigators tell Margaret that everything indicates that her daughter simply committed suicide, but the mother tells them no. There was no way her daughter would commit suicide because she was so excited about her pregnancy.
No, Elha would never.
Investigators and the coroner conclude that it was a suicide. She arranged her own death and the case was about to be closed.
But Margaret's insistence leads investigators to find pieces that don't match. Elha had several chores to do over the next few weeks. She paid in advance for things for the baby and for someone to fix a room at her house, presumably the baby’s. If she thought about committing suicide why waste money for something like that? The investigation continues.
And that's when they hit me, the interrogation cornered me and I confessed because of the pressure. I told them everything. Everything about how I made her do everything, so that I could set it up as if she committed suicide.
Elha believed in me. She always did. I asked her to play a game where I told her to write a suicide letter. At first she was nervous but I eventually convinced her to do it, she believed in me after all. After doing and writing in the letter what I asked, I told her to put a pillowcase on her head… And then the rest came faster. Once I had managed to immobilize her I put a rope around her neck from behind and she couldn't do anything.
…Once she stopped moving, I cleaned everything up and left.
It was my perfect crime, I just didn't count on Margaret's stubbornness in insisting that her daughter would not commit suicide and Elha not referring to me about the things she would do at home for her son's arrival.
…Perhaps, in the end, she didn’t trust me that much.
The best way to commit a perfect crime is actually to go with what looks accidental. To me, those are harder to trace as long as you keep your work clean and even when the victim had plans agead because "accidents happen" this was a really cool story btw, never expected a first person approach from you though