The McCracken Family Encounters a Serial Killer While On Vacation in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

While on a camping trip in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the McCracken family decides to stop by a laundromat to wash their dirty laundry.

Also washing clothes at this laundromat is a prolific serial killer named Mirsad Masukic.

Unknown to the McCracken family, Mirsad has killed seventy-eight men, women, children, and a whole host of male and female prostitutes throughout the Upper Midwest. He has undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, was subjected to parental abuse as a child, and remains elusive to law enforcement authorities who are actively pursuing the identity of the so-called “Mack the Ripper” making headlines in the news.

Mack the Ripper is indeed Mirsad Masukic, and the clothes in the washer are those of his most recent victims. Bloody water and detergent drain out of the washer.

The rinse cycle begins.

Dan, the father and husband of the McCracken family, enters. He and Mirsad acknowledge each other with a silent nod.

The rest of the family follows. They are Sheila (the mother), Falco (the 12-year-old son), and Lynn (the 16-year-old daughter).

As Dan goes to the change machine, Sheila follows Falco to the bathroom while Lynn empties the dirty laundry into the washer.

The sight of Lynn tossing women’s underwear into the wash startles Mirsad.

But before his blood lust surfaces, a banging from the change machine breaks his trance.

“Damn it!” Dan rages. “The change machine won’t take my bill!”

“Let me help,” Mirsad says. “I know a trick.”

Mirsad takes the five-dollar bill, folds it lengthwise, unfolds it, then presses it vertically against the corner of the machine. He then slides the bill back and forth.

After a few passes, Mirsad inserts the bill into the machine. Magically, coins clank into the machine cup.

“You, sir, are a saint,” Dan says. “I could just kiss you.”

“Oh please,” blushes Mirsad. “It’s an old trick my mother used to teach me.”

“She must be a wonderful woman!” Dan says.

“Oh, she was!” Mirsad says. “Bless her heart. She passed away fifteen years ago!”

“So sad to hear,” says Dan. “May I ask…what was her cause of death?”

“Oh,” Mirsad begins. “It’s a very long story.”

For the first time in his life, Mirsad reveals the disturbing events of his childhood that led up to that fateful morning when, underneath an overcast sky, he hacked his mother to death with a machete.

From there, he murdered seventy-seven more people.

Having heard his story, the McCracken family looked at each other in silence. Dan cleared his throat, “Well, that's quite a story, Mirsad. Now, can I get those quarters from the change machine? Our clothes aren't going to wash themselves.”