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| “ | You'll always want to play, my little Annie. I made you that way. | „ |
| ~ Thompson harassing Annie in her thoughts |
Ruth Thompson, also known as The Peter Pan Killer, is the main, overarching antagonist of the standalone novel Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land. Thompson is a brutal serial killer of children and the torturer of her daughter, Milly Newmont, who turns her in to the police and moves to a new home while awaiting her own testimony at Thompson's trial. Thompson is a lingering traumatic influence on Milly, which is demonstrated as she struggles to make a life for herself.
Biography[]
Thompson was a sadistic, perverse, unstable, possessive matriarch and deceptive, manipulative nurse counselor at a women's refuge, living in Devon with her daughter Annie. She changed her moods around Annie, from attentive to vicious, brutalizing Annie badly enough she had lasting nerve damage, as well as raping her so many times she invited three men and a woman from the Darknet to gang-rape and torture Annie on her sixteenth birthday. Thompson was never fully satisfied and sought other children, at the very where she worked, targeting women protecting the kids who had no place to go or needed to stabilize themselves to watch over their children. Thompson lied she'd care for the children after gaining custody of them, when she instead imprison the children in a cell constructed in a room across from Annie's bedroom nicknamed the "playground". While Annie was forced to watch through a peephole, Thompson would repeatedly rape and maim each child over long, drawn-out periods of time. Thompson would keep the children alive for weeks, then days, as she became increasingly violent, to Annie and to the captive kids. They would be killed and buried in the cellar, Annie keeping their bloody toys as evidence. Eight children in all, boys and girls from ages 3 to 6, were killed between 2006 and 2016. The ninth child, Daniel Carrington, Annie herself couldn't stand to see suffer, so she snapped and smothered him with a pillow to put him out of his misery. When Thompson realized what she did, she praised Annie with "that's my girl". That was the moment Milly decided to report her, especially when Thompson was planning to torture another child. She brought Daniel's bloody teddy bear to the police and told them everything. Thompson was arrested, in her nightgown without underwear no less, at the age of 48, and was remanded without bail to Low Newton Prison while she awaited trial. All the children were found buried in the cellar, except for Daniel, who was still on the bed in the cell. Annie was placed in psychiatric commitment to recover, until she was given the new name Milly and transferred to the Newmont family for Witness Protection placement. Milly was to be the leading witness at Thompson's trial, and the case received overwhelming media attention and public outrage.
Milly was regularly haunted by Thompson, from flashbacks, to thoughts of how she would speak to her to degrade her or push her to awful acts, to people around her finding out news reports on the case and only saying hateful things about Thompson. Milly continuously struggled to make a normal life with her new identity, as well as recover from all her trauma. Sadly, her foster father Mike Newmont, a child psychologist, was studying Milly to write a book about her; his wife Saskia was suffering alcohol and drug addictions; and their bratty, vicious daughter Phoebe harassed Milly constantly, from cyberbulling to fake personal sex ads. Milly would resist them as much as she could without involving faculty, sometimes with small revenges. It's highly implied at least one of the Newmont parents were abusive to Phoebe, as she cried every night. As Phoebe was easily envious and attention-seeking from small egos and making rivalries as she pleased, Milly had little friends, in spite of still supporting one of them, Clondine, after she was raped at a party. Milly became withdrawn and silent, cut herself, overdosed on her prescriptions a couple times in suicide attempts, and killed a bird with a broken wing to euthanize them. She befriended Morgan, who she refused snorting coke with, but that was short lived when Milly pinned her in an emotional episode and Morgan got offended, even in spite of not blaming Milly for Thompson's murders when Milly confided in her. The trial was a nightmare, as the defense tried to shake Milly up by making her admit on the stand she killed Daniel. She perjured herself avoided the question, saying she only felt guilty about providing Daniel false comfort. When she was helped off the stand, addressed by her new name, Thompson harasser her by saying "her name is Annie". News headlines would later reveal Thompson escaped from prison and disappeared. The final nail in the coffin was when Phoebe challenged Milly again with saying she'd be kicked out of the house, so Milly shoved Phoebe out of her bedroom's window and killed her. Milly never told the truth, no one suspecting a thing, but she was devastated Thompson still broke her with traumatic influence, let alone that everyone else she was hurt by and could never trust pushed her further and stole the rest of her hope.
Trivia[]
- Thompson is inspired by two real-life serial killers:
- Fred West, a British serial killer with his wife Rosemary, both who kidnapped, raped, and murdered multiple teenage girls they lied about wanting to hire as nannies. The girls were entombed in their home's construction and buried in the garden after they died. The couple also beat and raped their daughters, two of them who were also murdered.
- Dean Corll, a.k.a. "The Candy Man" and "The Pied Piper", an American serial killer guilty of raping, torturing, and murdering numerous preteen and teen boys in Houston, Texas, whose disappearance weren't investigated when were originally believed to be runaways. Corll raped one teenage accomplice, David Owen Brooks, to make him assist in luring and restraining the boys. The other accomplice, Elmer Wayne Henley, was done with the crimes and shot Corll dead, saving a brother and sister Corll intended to kill. (It's an unpopular belief Henley personally killed some children himself.) Brooks and Henley led police to numerous boys' skeletons, in Corll's boathouse, then in isolated nature. For unknown reasons, the police stopped the search, despite the boys insisting there were more dead children to find. A few more boys were discovered in some years following, but a suspected more than 30 boys Corll is believe to have killed were never found. Corll, along with serial killer John Wayne Gacy, is one of two serial killers associated with sex trafficker John David Norman and his right-hand man Phillip Paske.