The Adulteress and the Murderer

By Clyde G. Schultz

Too often people look for any excuse to justify their terrible things they do and thus, do not have to take full responsibilities for their actions, this is a story about adultery and murder.

Marry Novack didn't know why she was unsatisfied with her husband Paul, and found herself in the arms of other men. Her husband, Paul Novack, did not turn his back on her for her transgressions but should have. Mary was not aware she suffered from multiple personality disorders. But did Paul, in fact, use his logging profession to rid himself of his cheating spouse? There were three motives: hate, revenge, and money. Did Paul feel that he was driven to be a murderer?

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Sep 19, 2006
• ISBN: 9780595855186

Clyde G. Schultz

I inserted some of my own character into Jerry, and it became my pleasure to write the book, like in my dream Feb.17 09. I am 81 years old. I’ve been writing songs and stories since 1996. I have 400 songs 35 stories now. This is my 3rd book to be got published.

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The Adulteress and the Murderer

Copyright © 2007 by Clyde G. Schultz

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

MY BIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

January 16, 1998

This is a story about two people, I’ll give you the introduction to them here, and I’m going to name the story the Adulteress and the Murderer. This is the story about a number of different things including the final thing … murder. This is a purely fictional story. None of the characters have real names or true events. These two people have similar characteristics, and I’ll go into each one of them and tell you their characteristics in the beginning of the story.

We’ll name him Paul and we’ll name her Mary. Paul is about 25. Mary is about 20. Anyway, Paul’s character is a drinker and a man easily upset, paranoid, even somewhat of a coward, good looking, 6’1", 180 pounds, brown hair, and blue-eyed guy. Somewhat of a male chauvinist so to speak, the old type always keeps his wife home barefoot and pregnant. Both people have similar characteristics.

Mary is a blonde, blue eyed 5’2", good-looking girl, and good figure and not heavy breasted and she does not know that she’s got a double personality. These things she just doesn’t know about that. She is a very jealous person. She’s not too great at doing housework and cooking and so forth. She went to great lengths to get this man in the first place, and she’s also got a drinking problem. So, both people, like I said before, have similar characteristics.

That’s just about the introduction to their character. Paul is a self-employed logger. Mary works for the county welfare board department. They live out of town, near a lake. We’ll call the lake Pearl Lake and the river will be Pearl River.

And the state would be Wisconsin, and we’ll call it Bear County in the National Forest County.

I think the most important thing is that you have to keep the interest of the people who are going to listen to this. I think the important thing to me is what I am trying to convey in this story: that the people that are never satisfied in life, they jump from one fire to another so to speak, they just don’t seem to settle down to life, and that the pasture always looks greener on the other side, so to speak. That’s an old fable from way back when cattle were in the field and would want to reach across the fence and get themselves all cut up because they want the grass on the other side of the fence. And it’s true in a sense with people; they maybe don’t know it at the time, but they do and it leaves damaging scars that last forever. If you have one party of the marriage that hangs on to what’s decent in life they can maybe even make it work for a while, but with two people of the same character, it’s like a team of horses that can’t pull, one will balk and the other one wants to pull and vice versa. That explanation of an old fable sometimes comes true. To hold your interest, this goes about breaking all the sins in the book. Both people were brought up in church and studied bible school and I guess are considered churchgoers-church going people. I think from my own experiences in life, I see this all the time; when you do get into church and these things, you see these people who pretend they’re some real good Christians and actually they are not; they are probably just the worse kind of people that could be on the earth and they’ll go right up to the limit. I don’t need to go into all that, but I’m trying to explain the best way I know how. You even hear stories about priests and ministers going astray, so there are no certain people that this happens to; it’s from all walks of life, no matter what their faith is or what their church denomination is, it takes its toll on all, but what it boils down to is their own individuality. I think sometimes in a sense when people can’t be faithful to each other then they can’t even be faithful to themselves, so to speak. If they are those types of people they should never even marry; it’s as simple as that sometimes. Two basics of life are to love and be loved. It’s the earliest thing that any person is taught. And sometimes, I guess, people grow up in an environment where they are not taught these kinds of things and they turn out to be rapists and murderers and what not. This story will be my thoughts on the subject and the things I learned in life, and I had similar experiences that some of these people had; maybe not all of the things that happened, but some of them. Anyway, similar things have happened in my lifetime that would relate to in this story, but I am not basing it on any true events of any kind.

I think to start this story out, we will go from day one, we’ll start with how they met, and then we’ll jump right into the marriage. It’s normal for a couple in the first few months of marriage to not have any problems; people are getting to know each other. Things are pretty great for a few months. Sometimes it doesn’t always fall true to form though, it can happen right away. We’ll go into the bits and pieces of their meeting and then their marriage and then a few little things that happened the first couple of months then into the rest of the story. I’m going to make this all up as I go, whatever comes into my mind. I’ve seen incidences happen through life in other cases. I think we’ll put a little bit of everything in there, because if you watched the last few years media, OJ Simpson case, there’s Menendez brothers, there’s other cases that hit the media that would relate to this story. There is a case here in Wisconsin where a body was never found yet they convicted the husband for the murder many, many years later without the body, the body was never recovered at all. So anyway, there wasn’t many cases up to that point, I guess, that they ever proved murder without a body.

So, as we get into this story, some of these things are going to sound right out of that, but it still will be based on my fictional characterization of these two people and what could have happened sometimes to a lot of people. I know it happened in my own life, which was bad enough and not of my making either. Anyway, I’ll start now at 1980.

Reagan was president then, eight years ago. Takes up the 80’s and almost into the 90’s, there I guess 1991. 1982.. we’ll go with that.

They were on the lake country up there near the Pearl River and the Pearl Lake. They have these events in the summertime; they have a log rolling contests, and they have a weekend like the county fair where they have all different things going on; the Indians put on their dances and whatnot, and it’s a nice fun event. This is how Paul and Mary met. He was a logger and, of course, he had an interest in these things so he would participate in the events. She was in the audience and kind of liked what she saw. If you know the type of woman she is, she did the pursuing, so she arranged to meet him by making sure she was waiting there where he came out of the gate. And so right away they hit it off like two ducks do to water, and they went out to a bar and had a quite a few drinks. Of course, being of those days, they had an immediate affair. In my younger days, sometimes you went with a woman for years before you ever had any sexual relation with them. But in the 70-80’s and into the 90’s and now things have changed and it seems young people are willing to jump into bed with a snap of a finger, and it seems like it’s a big variety of them not just one or two isolated incidences.

Anyway, these are my thoughts. Then it seems a lot of young people are just living together without marriage and the sense is, in fact I was just telling someone the other day, that when you just shack up, so to speak, or co-habit or what ever you want to call it, why should a man marry a woman if he can get them for nothing? It’s like the old saying that goes years and years ago: why buy the cow if you get the milk for nothing, so to speak. Anyway, that’s an old, old fable from way back, but just gives it the merit that it maybe deserves a little humor. But anyway, it didn’t take long and Paul and Mary fell in love with each other. You know in a sense, people of this character do this very fast; it’s almost instantaneously. In my life I’ve had a few events where I’ve met some girls that had these traits and fell in love fast, even one or two nights, but with me it never happened that way; I was slower on my feelings in getting to like someone. So anyway, it didn’t take long and they made their wedding plans.

I think sometimes in a sense two people, although they might both be very normal in sexual relations, don’t have a baby right away and maybe they don’t do anything to prevent it. But it takes years for some people to have babies and some of them, why they seem to get pregnant at a drop of a hat, so to speak. So, we won’t go into that, it will take several years before this comes about. So let’s pick the wedding day in June … June 6 or 7, somewhere in there.

They got married on a nice, warm, sunny day and had a small wedding party, went out to eat, of course both of them excelled in their drinking. But, when two people do this together, it seems like they get along relatively well until they reach a certain point. Being a small person, the alcohol gets to Mary sooner; the bigger guy can handle the alcohol a little bit better. What usually starts the trouble is the effects of the booze get to the smaller person first, then of course later on when the booze finally gets to the bigger person, then they start to have an argument. But, up until the point that the bigger person gets this much alcohol he can cope with the situation. But Paul now, his character isn’t coming out real quick; he’s kind of a coward guy. He’s got to be surer of himself before he does anything to jeopardize the marriage. It’s just like when two men get in an argument; the coward is going to back water and going to back up and back up until he can’t back any more then he will run, and that is what a coward does, you know. Even with women, they are the type that would be excessively abusive to women because of their cowardice acts. I’ve seen it myself in my own life when I was in the service and where you’d get into a situation. There were no actual threats of my life, but we had a couple of guys back up and run from situations, and it was no threat to them; I’m trying to explain that point, how a coward will act. So, anyway, the evening was over and their first day of marriage began. Like I’ve said before, people have a tendency to get a long relatively good in their first short months of marriage. On Monday, they both went to work and did their jobs. I think the thing would be to say about drinking people is that they do their job. People who drink a lot become good workers; they need their job and they don’t do anything to jeopardize it because they have to depend on that. I think at the time neither Paul nor Mary were habitual alcoholics. They’re just people who drink. Alcoholism comes from a long, long term of steady drinking day after day after day. Sometimes it’s a matter of some parts of your body quitting functioning.

I know a person who was 28 whose liver was not functioning right and he was drunk all the time; I mean he would come into my place and one or two drinks and he would be bombed out of his skull because he always had alcohol in his system and he was always drunk so he had no way of getting rid of the alcohol content. The alcohol leaves your body by one ounce per hour only if the liver is functioning, so if you had 30 shots it would take 30 hours to get rid of it completely. That’s a little explanation on alcohol.

Paul and Mary were married a couple of months and things went pretty well for that time. All at once, little things start to happen that make matters worse. I think I explained before, when you’re newly married, I guess things do go pretty good. Little things sometimes mean a lot, they add up, the way they take their toll. Most people on a daily basis just overlook the little things that go wrong and make allowances for it. But anyway, what I mean by little things is anything from cold cup of coffee, to an uncooked decent meal or just about anything you could possibly imagine, but sometimes the paranoia in Paul comes out and makes these little things more badly than they are, so he’s easily upset about it.

It was almost every day that they stopped at a bar. The bar they stopped most was only about 3 miles away from their home out there in the country by the lake. She would get done at her work at about 5:00 and he would sometimes work until 6:00 or 7:00 by the time he got there. Then they would maybe go out for supper or something like that, or on a Friday night go for a fish fry and then maybe they’d just have a few drinks and go home to eat; nevertheless, it was a daily thing.

Her being there an hour or two hours before him, when a woman’s in the bar, other men think she’s open game. Of course, with her being very aggressive with men it’s easy for a situation to arise at any second. So anyway, on one of these occasions Paul walks into a bar into a little different scene there with his wife. He’s the type of guy who just don’t go and make a big scene about it right then; he’ll wait till he gets home. He doesn’t want to get this other man so upset that he gets in a fight, so he’s pretty careful about that. He’ll wait and he’ll make his move later. I’ve seen a few of these guys in action before who wait until they’re all alone.

So anyway, Paul and Mary stayed there another hour or so and had a few more drinks. Finally they left the bar and follow each other the 3 miles home. Well, the minute they get in the door he starts in on her and they get into a push-come-to-shove sort of deal. Tempers take hold, but no blows are struck. Anyway, you can just imagine what goes on these kinds of fights. Then the ironic thing is when they wind up, it’s instantly over with, and they go to bed and share a sexual experience, but sometimes it’s not really satisfying to either of them because too much alcohol involved slows some of the process down. Of course, her being the smaller person, she wakes up in the morning and she has little knowledge of what even went on. In her mind she is trying to remember what took place. Of