Gone girls
Who says women like amazing amy are works of fiction?
He used to be sweet. But now… I’ve never seen him so angry. His eyes were bloody red. If looks could kill, I’d be dead right now. I’m scared. On the eve of Oct. 16, Friday, I tagged my aide Darlene Francisco along as we escaped from the house. Everything was planned—the car, the hotel, the media. A getaway vehicle burned to ashes? Let them think I burned myself inside the car. To hell with you and the girl you’re banging.
GONE GIRL NO MORE Josie, wife of Camarines Norte governor Edgardo Tallado (left) went missing but surfaced after five days.
This could be a scene ripped straight from Amazing Amy’s diary in Gone Girl. Camarines Norte Governor Edgardo Tallado’s wife, Josie, resurfaced and appeared on national TV five days after she went missing. The getaway Toyota Fortuner she was driving was found abandoned along Maharlika Highway in Camarines Sur. She fled, checked in at a hotel, and bought a secondhand car to Manila.
AMAZING AMY Screenshots from the movie Gone Girl
“I have no one rooting for me in Camarines Norte (Wala akong kakampi sa Camarines Norte),”Josie said. Her husband Edgardo is having an affair. Josie has seen the racy photos. They went viral online.
In Amazing Amy’s words, women should be hot. “Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry. They only smile in a chagrined, loving manner, and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl,” she says. Apparently, this rings a bell for real-life Gone Girls. Wait until they’ve reached their boiling point.
One year. Everything needs to be smooth. Each performer must play his role well: the police, the gunman, the TV reporters, the victim.
Take for example the murder of Enzo Pastor, whose story took a bizarre twist after police investigations revealed that the racecar driver’s death involved his wife, Dalia, who was allegedly having an affair with a businessman, Sandy de Guzman.
June 12, 9:45 p.m. Enzo and his assistant, Paolo Salazar, were on their way to Angeles, Pampanga for a race. Enzo knew the route to Angeles like the back of his hand. But Dalia, according to his assistant, kept calling, instructing him where to turn, what road to take. In a carefully plotted murder, each performer must play his role well. Everything must go smoothly. Enzo was a good pawn.
At the junction of Congressional and Visayas avenues, Enzo stopped at a red light. Then a man appeared from Enzo’s side and shot him. He sustained three gunshot wounds in the head and neck. He was dead on the spot. Paolo was wounded.
Dalia, according to the gunman, was one of the master planners, the brains behind the murder that took months (even a year) to plot. In Amazing Amy’s words, “people who get caught are caught because they don’t have patience. They refuse to plan.” Dalia had a plan. And she was patient. The case, says the police, is solved. Dalia is a suspect. But no one knows where she is. Who knows, like Amazing Amy, she might have chopped her hair, dyed it black, and ate to her heart’s content to gain a few pounds? They say faking documents in Quiapo works like magic. You can have them overnight.
In Australia, another personified Amazing Amy has perfected the art of manipulation. She faked death in order to start anew. Natasha Ryan, then 14, ran away from home and hid in a cupboard for five years while her parents and the rest of the world were primed that she was murdered. According to reports, she lived in darkness, and only ventured out twice in the middle of the night to get some fresh air. She even watched herself on TV as the police searched for her and hunted down her supposed murderer. In 2003, the police found Natasha, alive, and married to his “captor,” Scott Black, a milkman she was banned from seeing when she was a teenager. The couple now has a son.
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2012 that the novel-turned-movie was purely fiction, but she did see the parallelism between Amazing Amy and Nick and Laci and Scott Peterson, whose case was among those highly publicized and sensationalized in America.
On Christmas Eve in 2002, according to the Time article “This Case is the Real-World Version of Gone Girl,” Laci Peterson, a schoolteacher, went missing. She was eight months pregnant with their first child. Like Amy and Nick, the Petersons were a beautiful couple, which drew more media attention. As in Gone Girl, Scott’s in-laws supported him—at first. As in Gone Girl, things changed when a massage therapist, Amber Frey, told the police she and Scott were having an affair. Months after Luci went missing, the police found her body, with a male fetus, washed ashore 90 miles from where the couple lived. Scott was convicted of first-degree murder for his wife’s death and second-degree murder for their son. Scott is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison, California.
History is also hounded by missing persons, their true whereabouts as well as the facts of their cases shrouded in myth and speculation. On Dec. 10 1910, socialite and heiress Dorothy Arnold, dressed impeccably as always, left her home in New York City to do some shopping. She never returned. Her disappearing act was dubbed by The New York Times as the “supreme mystery of New York Police Department and perhaps the greatest missing person mystery in the United States.” Her disappearance was fodder for rumor, malice, and grim imaginations. Did she elope? Was she murdered? In 1916, six years after Dorothy vanished into thin air, E.C. Glenmorris, then in the Rhode Island Penitentiary, confessed he had helped bury a woman he believed was Dorothy. Alas, detectives could not find any trace of the body. Dorothy was 25 years old when she disappeared. She was a member of an influential family. She was the niece of former US Supreme Court Justice Rufus Peckham. Dorothy has since remained a Gone Girl despite her family’s government connections and power. Were you hiding something, Dorothy?
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