Everybody has their first day for everything I still remember my first day

May 13th 1993
Mandela County WI

It was a nice cool spring day in the weird part is there were no clouds in the sky but I guess that's a rarity in Mandela but I remember we got our uniforms on me and Tyler and we were called to uh investigate a recent murder they said that somebody went inside somebody's house and killed somebody something like that but everybody was acting strange about it like it wasn't what it seemed but I didn't think about it then as I do now so we pull up to a house and it was getting dark out so we took photos took evidence and we prepared to leave but something just felt off about that house I don't know like everything about it it felt like something was there I can't really describe it as well but it felt like man's Tyler were both being watched by something that you could just not see but you could feel he later told me that he felt the same way but that was the next day but that's not the point the point was what we saw in the evidence room and in the photos something was in that room with us and we didn't see it until we got back to the police station right there in the corner right next to the body right next to Tyler he could see something right next to him I asked them about it and he said he had no memory of somebody right next to him hell he didn't see anybody in that house the entire time the next morning we went back tried to find any evidence of anybody there but I could feel a overwhelming amount of dread it was strange so me and Tyler set up a video surveillance camera and left it overnight and may I remind you this is day three now we went back to that house and we got the footage well I mean I'm saw and with the chief of police said it shook me and him both we saw the TV just suddenly turn on and then we saw him at the time he didn't have a name but now everybody just calls him the intruder some sort of TV being of some sort I can't really explain it I'm just a cop so I don't know anything about the stuff that happened back then especially with all the information that I now know now I don't know I just wish I had the knowledge that I have now than I did back then maybe I could have kept Tyler alive I don't know why I stay I guess it's just my duty I mean I did say I wanted to protect the people of Mandela County the hell that's my job as the police lieutenant since Lieutenant Thatcher Gone Missing I'm the only one here everybody else left and I still have that overwhelming amount of feeling of dread and confusion and being watched all the time I can see them in the corner of my eyes like they're haunting me and I can see his face every time I look every time I try to sleep but I guess that's the strange reality that I now live at empty hallways with fluorescent lights with stacks of missing person reports a part of me wants to quit go home and just forget about it but even home isn't safe and I took an oath a pledge to protect and defend the people of this place but even though I try my damnedest nothing seems to go my way nowadays I guess that's just part of the job at least that's what I keep telling myself that's all I have to say like I said everybody has their first days mine was just different I wish I had a better first day

Lt.Jumper
Mandela County Police Department
"Everyday Gets Brighter"