Write An Essay On Alice First Murder Case

Alice lives in a world of silence. Try not to misunderstand, it only appears silent to those around her, to her the noise can be unbearable. You see, at the age of four she was diagnosed with a rare condition called Hyperacusis, meaning that her ears are extremely sensitive. Every noise, even the slightest sound is detected by her ear drums. Now twenty-two years of age, she is living in a fairly run down block of studio flats in the small suburb of Portswood, Southampton. The studio is small, barely large enough for her to live in, but it is quiet. Being on the top floor means that she is sheltered from road noise and her surrounding neighbours too, are generally quiet, for which she is eternally grateful. Quiet, however, is relative term

The case involved a mother who had a breakdown that resulted in her smothering, and killing, her husband and three children. During trial, she became hysterical, screaming at the jury that if she hadn’t have killed them, a monster would have eaten them. The woman, unsurprisingly was found guilty of four counts of murder, but was committed to a high security psychiatric establishment due to reasons of insanity. The sound of the woman’s wails in the courtroom, and the disturbing fluctuation between her coldly explaining how she killed them, to screaming, to pleading her innocence, is something that is going to burned into Alice’s brain for the rest of her life. The mere thought of it now, still sends a shiver down her

Actually, if she was to describe it now, she would say that the was less sound than nothing. It was the first time she truly understood the phrase ‘silence is deafening’. She felt as though there was a vacuum on her ears, a sudden and overwhelming presence of nothing. Despite this, she sat there and played the entire clip. Nothing. Confused, she turned the volume up a notch and listened again, nothing. Once again, she turned the volume up again to half volume this time, unheard of for Alice, usually listening to anything at this volume would cause her unbelievable pain, but strengthened by the fact that she had listened twice and not heard a sound, she played the clip again. Nothing. It was at this point that Alice truly thought she would give up and email the person back to say that there had been an error in the clip and that there was no sound. She put her headphones down on the desk and went about replying to the message when a thought occurred. Perhaps, the reason that the person had chosen her to transcribe this audio clip is because they knew that the sound was too quiet for anyone to hear and they knew about her condition, as many people did in the local area, and thought she would be the only person able to help. With this thought in mind, she put her headphones back on, took a deep breath, and for the first time in her life, turned the volume to maximum. And then she heard