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| “ | One final painting titled "SELF PORTRAIT" was found two days ago. This is the painting. |
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| ~ The description of the "SELF PORTRAIT" painting of one of the killers. |
| “ | The camera footage captures the murderers entering the house of Sarah and Michael Stone, ultimately providing the most damning evidence yet. What you are about to witness is a glimpse of the most violent killers in American history. This is what was on the security camera. | „ |
| ~ The description of the captured video of Mona and Bill breaking into a house. |
| “ | Get the door. The door! | „ |
| ~ Mona instructing Bill to break down the door. |
“The Painters” are the main antagonists of the controversial analog horror, slasher, crime web series The Painter created by UrbanSPOOK.
They are a duo of deranged bloodthirsty serial killers who are responsible for a large number of extremely brutal murders of multiple men, women, and children presumably sometime in the early-to-mid 2000s. They also leave behind numerous disturbing paintings of their victims at each crime scene as some twisted calling card to taunt the police. Their identities were kept hidden until they are eventually defeated by police officer Nathan Cole.
The female killer is named Mona D. Lanius, being the leader of the two, she is the one responsible for the paintings behind the murders and the murders themselves.
The male killer is Bill Collins, he is Mona’s partner-in-crime who helps her stalk potential victims, scout around for anything that can potentially catch them such as cameras, and helps her with the murders and torture methods as well.
Their actions throughout the series have been documented in a series of police case file-styled VHS tapes that the main protagonist posting the videos seems to have found in their basement for reasons yet unknown. As of currently Mona was arrested, and Bill was shot.
Biography[]
Very little is known about Mona’s past other than that she was currently residing within a warehouse next to an old abandoned textile and paint factory that she referred to as Hell. From there she would begin her violent killing spree, torturing and slaughtering over a hundred innocent people for an unknown amount of time.
The Painter[]
At some unknown point in time, Mona decided to make her killings more public and proceeded to take the lives of three different people that being Carla Gray, Jackie Gramm, and James Miller. Then she created three grotesque paintings in their image and named to represent how she had killed them. After creating seven more paintings of seven future victims, she proceeded to take the life of one of the victims named Jim Lee then mailing photos depicting him, Jackie, and James to the police. Two days later, after creating her own self portrait, she targeted the Collins family. She broke into the Collins family home and hid the painting within the family’s attic.
Two days later, police officer William “Bill” Collins would discover the painting in his attic, unsure of how exactly it had gotten there. Shortly thereafter, Mona would break into Bill Collins' house and murdered their two month old daughter. She eventually went after the rest of the Collins and the family was brutally murdered with the exception of Bill. While it's unknown whether either Mona or Bill himself killed the Collins family, something that is certain is that Bill joined Mona, became mutilated through an unknown reason, and became the animalistic and wild partner of Mona.
Over about twelve days go by before police discovered the Collins family‘s car in the beach with a painting of their deceased daughter in the back. This would lead police to search an old abandoned lighthouse that hadn’t been used in several years and had an abstract face painted in red on the front door. Within the lighthouse police discovered the chart remains of a teenage Daniel Williams and progressing into the lighthouse’s tunnels, discovered the bodies of Jennifer White and her daughter Lisa who had been missing for seven months earlier. Finally, they discovered the barrel of human remains once belonging to the Collins family with photos of their disfigured faces scattered around it.
Sometime later, a young boy named Cory Beck would be dared by two of his best friends to enter an old abandoned cabin near Tiger Lake. After entering the cabin along the digital camera, he would discover a secret crawlspace hidden within a closet. After entering into the crawlspace, he began to take pictures of his surroundings to light his way only to literally come face to face with Mona who proceeded grab hold of his arm. Corey was able to free himself from Mona’s grip, dropping his camera in the process. Escaped back outside the cabin to his friends where he told him about what he had seen in the walls.
One week later, the duo would abduct the young Cory along with his twin sister Margaret, and took them both to an old abandoned paper mill. And with the help of Bill, they proceeded to violate and torture the two children and then proceeded to convert their remains into two gruesome sex dolls. Two days later, the first sex doll was found left in the abandoned mill factory, while the Painter brought the other doll to Hell where she kept it in Bills cage.
The last victim from the previous seven painting was that of Tom Harris, whose house was broken in late one night by the Mona and Bill. They had both sneakingly scaled the drain pipe up to the third floor and entered Tom’s apartment through his window where he was brutally tortured by the duo before being suffocated to death under a mound of wax. Soon a private investigator Sean Kane came upon the crime scene and began his investigation into the gruesome killings.
unfortunately, one week later, the killers would break into Sean‘s house, incapacitate his dog, and then proceeded brutally attack him. Then proceeded to drag his bloody body from his bedroom and into the kitchen where he would proceeded to draw the number two on the door frame with his own blood. It’s then implied that they proceeded shove his remains into the pipes of his house. after about nine hours later, police would arrive at the house after hearing complaints from the neighbors about his dog barking only to discover the grim scene, Sean‘s painting, and a photo of Bill wearing a mask if somebody else’s face taken by Sean’s surveillance camera.
Sometime later, a young Tina Rosenberg Along with her boyfriend Jack Stryker and her little sister Flora to the east coast for her 20th birthday. One night after a long car ride, Tina woke up to find her boyfriend. Jack gone in the mysterious figure approaching before being injected with something and passing out again. The Painter then proceeded to drag Tina to the middle of a forest to tie her to a tree and cut both her arms and legs off. After Tina woke up, Mona then proceeded to violently bash her sister Flores skull in with a hammer while Tina heard everything.
It was about two days later before police would discover her car abandoned in the middle of the woods along with Flora’s painting. Following the sounds of screaming, they finally discovered Tina tied to the tree and proceeded to free her all the while searching for the culprit. During which the killer hastily proceeded to leave a second painting depicting Jack in front of the car. Tina would later on give an interview about her experience with what happened and explains that her culprits had taken her to hell and “once you’ve been to hell, you never come back”.
The two killers would then go after a retired police officer Ian Ford and his wife Mae and granddaughter Fiona. The family with then proceeded to be violently tortured and sexually violated by the two, with Ian‘s body being sewn into the dead carcass of a pig.
Recently after the Fords were reported, missing police, went to investigate their barn and discovered the gruesome state of what had happened. The police would also discover several faces nailed to the barnes wall as well as the paintings of Ian, Mae, and Fiona along with eight other paintings, one of them depicting Tina. A damaged video tape was also discovered buried in the mud outside near the barn house.
One night, Mona and Bill broke into another family home and gruesomely murdered the father Paul, his pregnant wife Janice, and their young child Zeke. Mona then sets her sites on an elementary school teacher, Isabel Jackson and proceeded to break into their house before gruesomely killing her husband. After which Isabel calls 911 and tells the operator that someone had broken into her home and murdered her husband. After giving the operator the “address” to her home, she proceeded to tell them that that she is locked herself within the bathroom of her home. Unfortunately, while the operator attempts to keep Isabel calm, Mona proceeds to break down the door to the bathroom with a hammer drill before brutally killing her with it and leaving a note behind that read “I live where I can’t breathe, and I eat without teeth, what am I”.
After police responded to the call, they made their way to the address provided to them only to discover that it was actually the address to the other families house. The entered the house to find both the parents murdered, the unborn fetus dismembered, and Zeke nowhere to be found. But eventually police do track down Elizabeth’s real address only to find her and her husband dead with her husband‘s head removed or replaced with his own painting. Police also did discover two sets of footprints within the house, confirming that the killer does not actually work alone.
Over the past next week, another victim is killed named Dr. Fred Baker who had been previously accused of stealing prescription drugs from the hospital, where he worked. Mona and Bill broke into Dr. Baker’s house from the back entrance and proceeded to brutally kill him before then performing unspeakable acts on his cat. Then they left a new painting, this time depicting Fred’s cat (with this being the first time an animal had their painting made).
Two days later, the killers then took the life of the husband and father of two of Mona’s previous victims (Jennifer and Lisa) named George White. The killers had broken into his family home and brutally mutilated him in a way that made postmortem identification nearly impossible. During the autopsy, they also discovered three photographs hidden within Georgia’s body, one inside the heart, another one within the intestines, and the last photo found crumbled up inside the pelvis.
Mona and Bill then proceeded to targeted police dispatcher, Sarah Stone and her husband, Michael. During the dead of night, they had broken into the house through the building’s basement hatch and proceeded to abduct them. They then took them back to Hell where Mona proceeded to sew them both together from mouth to butt.
One night, police got an anonymous tip about two trespassers in the abandoned text till and paint factory that was called in by a nearby payphone. After police arrived, they began investigating the workshop nearby the factory and discovered the gruesome remains, body parts, and even photos of The Painter’s previous victims. Upon investigating the factory itself, police discovered the bodies of several more known and unknown victims, most of them having been heavily cannibalized. Police also discovered seven more paintings depicting victims that were killed as far as five years ago with one painting being of the Collins family, Sarah and Michael Stone, and another painting untitled and seemingly unfinished. They also discovered the bodies of the missing Jones family all in various stages of decomposition, all connected by a chain and dangling from the ceiling. The police’s final discovery was of a room in the sewer system with the words that Tina Rosenberg had said during the interview. "Once you see Hell, you never come back."
After the discovery authorities were prompted to conduct a wellness check on the Tina who had been living with her mother since the incident. Officer Nathan Cole, who is the first to respond arrived at the house and came in only to discover Tina‘s mother, Sienna, dismembered in the kitchen and Tina screaming in the other room. Upon entering Tina‘s room, he discovered both Mona and Bill in the room torturing her and proceeds to point a gun at them telling them to put their hands on their heads. This prompts Bill to sprint towards Nathan in an attempt to attack, only to be killed instantly with a single shot to the head. Mona then has the gun aimed at her, where she puts her hands up in the air and surrenders. After the recording, Tina was then taken to the hospital where it had been found that her eyes and ears had been punctured with knitting needles, causing her to lose both her sight and hearing and left completely unaware that she was being rescued. When Mona was taken in and interviewed, she confessed to over one hundred kills, including with Bill, and she awaits sentencing at this time.
Epilogue[]
The killer's actions throughout the series have been documented in a series of police case file styled VHS tapes that the unseen protagonist posting. The videos were said to have found in the basement of their apartment complex, for reasons yet unknown.
Quotes[]
| “ | This face is believed to be connected to the disappearance of Cory and Margaret Beck. | „ |
| ~ The description of the first clear image of Mona’s face. |
| “ | The police now firmly believe that whoever is behind these paintings and murders does not work alone. | „ |
| ~ The description confirming that there are two killers instead of one. |
Gallery[]
Posters[]
Paintings/Photographs of The Victims[]
Note: These are arranged in order of appearance where the paintings are shown.
BE WARNED: These images may be unsettling and some have pretty inappropriate titles depicting their deaths
Special thanks to UrbanSPOOK's Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/urbanslug/)
Episode 1: FACES[]
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Episode 2: THE LIGHTHOUSE[]
(Note: The Photos of the remaining Collins Family were recreated by editing to make it accurate to the video)
Episode 4: THE CLUE[]
Episode 5: WITNESS[]
Episode 6: PIGS[]
(Note: Ian and Fred's paintings used in the video were cropped from the shirt merchandise website)
Episode 7: FAMILY[]
Episode 8: MEAT[]
(The painting art depicting Fred's cat couldn't be found on UrbanSPOOK's Instagram at the moment)
Episode 9: HELL[]
Trivia[]
- The main premise of the story is that the uploader (the unnamed main protagonist) found the tapes in the basement of his apartment complex, although it’s unclear if it’s located in the same town where the murders took place.
- This could imply that the tapes were created or possibly even edited by the killers themselves. Possibly explaining their journey of bloodlust.
- It’s also been theorized that the location of the murders is actually in Florida as the events are confirmed to take place somewhere in the south and mentions a place called Tiger Lake.
- Due to the speculation in "MEAT" that Dr. Fred Baker was stealing prescription drugs from his work due to the large amount of sildenafil present in his house following his murder, it's heavily implied that he was an unwitting accomplice to the Painters' crimes by supplying them with the drugs they needed to carry out their crimes, likely against his will. It could be assumed that they murdered him because they no longer needed him.
- Another theory states that it may NOT have been Fred who was stealing medication, but rather Mona and Bill, since the latter two have expert access to drugs. The police said they "believed" it may have been Fred before he was murdered.
- The original painting of Ian Ford had genitalia.
- The killers usually seem to target small families such as the Collins, the Fords, the Whites, the Jones, and the Jacksons sent the police to.
- Their reason for this is unclear except potentially so they are able to kill as many people as possible with little to no struggle.
External Links[]
- Information from The Painters from the UrbanSPOOK fandom