Though thought to be dead, beloved Litter Liner informants were recently discovered alive and relatively unharmed in the cornfields of central Iowa. Shaken up and incredibly disturbed by the events that led up to their disappearance, the girls are nonetheless grateful to be breathing.
According to the girls report, all early assumptions of situation were far from the truth. Things were looking bad for photographer and creative persona, Erin Rist, who shot the girls (in the photographic sense) the day of the alleged deaths. It has now been unearthed that the real culprit is one, Marlen Santos, whose cruelty and accidental mishaps know no bounds.
Beginning early in 2007, the girls had been working on an undercover case involving Santos. Seemingly innocent, the girls discovered Santos to be one of the most sinister villains of recent history. During the course of their undercover work, these two anonymous informants were near death more times than they could count, scraping through due to luck and a highly developed set of delayed decision-making skills that in the face of danger created a sense of denial that cushioned the girls against fatal panic-induced mistakes.
One of the most horrific near-tragic episodes instigated by Santos involved the lure of doughnuts. Santos strategically and cold-heartedly sent the girls out for a midnight snack run, knowing full well the 7 Eleven store to which she was sending them was notorious for it’s villainous clientele. When the girls arrived and began perusing the store over for just the right kind of doughnut, large shadowy men from every genre of illegal activity emerged from the corners. The creepiness alone almost killed the heroic girls, but with their presence of mind and clarity of thought they were able to quickly run to the car screaming.
Shortly after this terrifying incident, Santos took the girls out for dinner and a movie, as a show of apology and friendship. On the drive back, Santos turned her car down the wrong side of the largest highway in Leesburg. She drove against traffic for eleven miles, yelling to the girls, “I’ll crash the car on your side!”
This is the background for the girls’ decision to skip town. The gory photo shoot with Rist was the perfect cover. Already covered in blood and guts, they used a complex cocktail of drugs to create the illusion of death and let everyone assume the worst. A paramedic friend sent their “bodies” to Iowa, pulling some strings and owing some favors, saying that it was the girls greatest hope that they be buried in the state that Flannery O’Conner so often frequented.
It took more than a little effort, but the scared girls were found late Wednesday night, the 5th of August. They had created a hovel in the center of a cornfield, made from bent corn stalks and dried mud.
“We’re so glad you found us!” One of the girls screamed upon catching sight of her rescuers, “We thought we were going to be killed by the alien from the movie Signs!”
