The Missing Suspects Synopsis

This multi-strand narrative follows the hunt for Ben Bullhorn, a cold-blooded killer whose methodical style of murder, immaculate practices and corrupt preparation of precision conflicting with mercilessness becomes an unidentified and untraceable criminal.

It’s Essex in the late 1990’s and the cold breeze of winter blows outside the local police station in Hornchurch, a sergeant delivers a presentation on recent victims found and potential suspects. With the scarce amount of evidence and the frequent murders of females in the last five years, the already identified suspects are less than likely to be the convict due to their careless tactics. Oblivious to the fact that the first unidentified suspect was murdered a week earlier by stab wounds to the chest and neck, Ben Bullhorn is the only unidentified suspect of this crime.

Sergeant Smith has been working on the force for fifteen years and pays close attention to detail when investigating a crime scene. He also has a talent in thinking in the way of a killer in order to solve a crime. Him and trainee officers, Andy Brown and Sarah Appleby, have been assigned to this case and believe they have a time limit against this criminal since their informant Bob Jones went missing.

Ben Bullhorn has mistaken Sergeant Smith for a lazy investigator. Bullhorn begins to panic when he reads the newspaper and finds that Smith has found pollen residue at the scene of his latest crime. Bullhorn is sure he can get away with this crime and many more however he knows Smith won’t stop hunting him until he’s got him, therefore, Sergeant Smith is Bullhorns next target. Bullhorn sits for days planning his sin carefully as his techniques have to be changed due to an adjustment in his victim. Little does he know Smith has won awards in the past for the way he thinks, he knows that he is a threat to Bullhorn, the still unidentified suspect, and is aware that killing him is his objective.

As the killing of a young man occurs a week later, the disturbance in the pattern of killings alerts Sergeant Smith causing him to lead the investigation, heading to the crime scene alone. When he gets there, he comes face to face with Bullhorn who is ready with a knife to kill him. As they brawl, a gunshot his heard, the struggling slows down and Bullhorn pulls away with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Bullhorn dies and the young man killed was found in the boot of his car. Sergeant Smith wins an award for bravery and takes a well earned break to Hawaii.

(Alex Christian)