God's Purpose
By: Amrita Valan
After her burial Jennifer's parents went through her email account, (She had written down the password in her diary.) Unsent drafts mentioned her positive pregnancy test and her obsessive love for a man called Ty. An email sent to let him know he was to be her baby daddy. In eight months. Ty hadn't replied.
Ty denied involvement under police interrogation. There had been no overt signs of pregnancy when she had ended her life six months ago. Her parents hushed it up and buried her with the connivance of family friends in high places.
Every other month for the next six, a dead girl had surfaced; two of them suicides. One left in an alleyway with a neat knife wound to her jugular. No links between the deaths, except that they were all below mid-twenties, and pretty. except that on the knife victim the killer's DNA had been found. All that was needed now was a suspect to match the DNA to.
Neighbors whispered that Jennifer's body was not buried in a church, but a public cemetery, because she had taken her own life. Jennifer's parents appealed to the local parish and their request was granted. The church would allow her body to be buried in a back lot of its graveyard in the common family plot.
Upon exhumation Jennifer's body was found along with another, that of a five month old lifeless fetus. A wizened, almost mummified form, which had had a coffin birth soon after her burial, still attached to the shriveled umbilical cord.
A DNA test to identify paternity of the fetus proved identical to the DNA of the killer in the knife stab victim case. Jennifer's parents revealed details of their daughter's emails to Ty claiming she was with child by him. The police now collected the laptops and cell phones of the other two suicide cases. And both of them had communicated with a young man, who had stopped all communication with them abruptly. The email address was different in each case, as was the young man's name, but the IP address of the computer that sent all 3 emails? It was the same.
The identity of Ty was unraveled, as the hydra-headed monster who had made a profession of deceiving love struck girls, after robbing them of their valuables or cash.
At the ceremony returning the dead mother and child to the grave, Jennifer's father spoke gravely about God's purpose. He said with a quiet conviction, "No birth goes in vain, not even a coffin birth."
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