The Bopie Twins Detective Agency

 

Before I transferred to the Marietta Post Office I was a time keeper/Posta Data technician in Atlanta.  There were about 30 of us working around the clock.

When a person returns from called-in leave such as sick leave or Emergency leave they have to report to the time keepers’ office and sign in.  That means we got to meet all the odd birds.

There was a young man who was a carrier.  He had a nervous breakdown on his route and ran around tossing loose mail up in the air and dancing (they said).  He did not lose his job because he may have been provoked.

His Home town is Columbus, Georgia.  Keep that in mind.

We have been watching  lately MINDHUNTERS, a NETFLIX series.  It is about a crew in the FBI, not fully known about, that has their offices in the basement at the FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virginia.  This crew, maybe of 4 or 5, or maybe 6 (it keeps growing) go to prisons to interview mass or violent murderers such as Charles Manson (I know, Charlie is not charged with murdering, he is charged with enticing or maybe even inspiring murderers).  The sites and the people are realistically prepared.  I think they used actual locations, I recognized the streets of Atlanta. 

They were trying to catalog their habits so maybe their actions could be predicted and therefore preventable.

At one point elderly women living alone in Columbus, Georgia were being murdered.  They went to Columbus. 

A memory popped in my head of the nutty ex-carrier, who changed to being a clerk.  He was from Columbus.  He called in one timed on emergency leave, and said he would be at his home in Columbus.  The time he was out a woman was murdered in Columbus.  I told my late friend-coworker Chuck about it and we were not sure what to do.  Finally we talked to someone with authority and he looked over the guy’s leave records and decided it was only a flute or a coincidence, that was the only time.  He was harmless.

We did what we thought was right, even if it meant we had to get in his personal life a bit.  No harm, no foul.

Back to the MINDHUNTER series they are now in Atlanta studying the Atlanta Child Murders.  Good series.