666 Bodies Discovered 29 Years Ago, Killings to Begin Again Soon?

By: Flora Muertos

While interviewing Italy’s oldest living resident, Edna McDannon, age 108, for an article about the elderly in North Texas the following story came to light. Upon being asked about all of the strange disappearances over the years in her home town she offered the following narrative:

“Well, The Kilemol family was well known but very seldom seen in our small farming town. Having been there since anyone and everyone could remember, most people did not think much about them. After all there are so many farming families who keep to themselves, what’s one more? Even if they were a bit odd.

“The decades went past and the family grew larger. Hannibal and Agatha had little Jack Bill, and a few years later adorable little Jenny Lynn. The children never came to school and Constable Higginbottoms was leery of trying to enforce anything that had to do with the Kilemols. You see, Constable Higginbottoms had a sister who worked for the Kilemols years before. When she disappeared everyone whispered that the Kilemols had done something gruesome to poor Bev, but the Kilemols claimed that she just did not show up for work that day. Honestly nobody thought anymore about it. I mean, they were very secretive and did all their own farming and raising of livestock, supplying all their own food themselves, but that is no reason to suspect foul play, now is it?

“Hannibal Kilemol eventually bought a meat packing company and by the time I was 15 he had become quite successful in the area. Agatha Kilemol made and sold dolls-they were beautiful. I bought them for birthday presents, I even had one myself. They looked so real and yet not, as though they were alive when you were not looking. My little brother was scared to death of them.

“To add to the strangeness of the entire situation, Big Joe Hatcher (who was mentally challenged to say the least, and stayed with the Kilemols) was working for his food and board by doing anything the family needed him to do. Big Joe became very loyal to the family and worked through the night doing things for Hannibal and his family that no one in the community knew about. Sometimes you would see him walking down the street shouting, ‘There will be blood!’ Or buying saws and other tools at the hardware store laughing sluggishly and muttering the same thing, ‘There will be blood!’ Now that was a man that everyone in Italy was terrified of-oh, he was truly scary.

“Later on, Jack Bill and Jenny Lynn had an incestuous relationship that resulted in a child that they named Baby Girl and called ‘Baby’. Now, after all that inbreeding-oh, you know that Agatha and Hannibal were brother and sister too, right? Well after all that nobody expected Baby Girl to be right, but nobody expected her to be so very wrong either. She barley looked human-or maybe it was that she looked like a person does after they have been in a terrible accident. And if you drove out past the Kilemol’s you would see her in the yard, sometimes talking to people who weren’t there. Sometimes playing with one of her grandmother’s dolls. Sometimes just sitting there pulling her hair out. Every once in a while, she would wander into town early in the morning and scare all the old folks walking down Main Street until Big Joe or Jenny Lynn one came and got her. Big Joe and Baby Girl became close friends; they sort of looked out for each other.

“Now you may not believe me, but it turned out that many hitchhikers and city folks stopping for directions were killed by the Kilemol family and they used the bodies in the meat processing. That was the meat that was being shipped around Texas and sold in many grocery stores at that time. Since no one suspected what these people were doing they gladly ate Kilemol Meat Co. products. Why would anybody think that anything was wrong? There were several of us who were terrified of the Kilemols and believed that they had done horrible things to people, but we were also afraid to pass by the cemetary at night without whistling. So most people just wrote us off as being ‘back-woods and uneducated.’

“It was also around this time that Agatha’s doll collection grew larger and larger and the dolls became more life-sized and realistic. And the dolls began looking identical to that of her victims! I wonder why? Hah. Like I said nobody really thought too much of it, except for Constable Higginbottoms. When Agatha sold a doll that was over five feet tall and looked just like Bev Higginbottoms, the Constable decided to get over his own fear and get to the bottom of what was really going on at the Kilemol’s.”

It was at this point that Edna drifted off and onto stories about her own family. I later checked into Edna McDannon’s story, and discovered the following:

After an extensive personal investigation by Constable Higginbottoms that lasted for years, enough evidence was discovered to obtain a search warrant. On October 13, 1979 the police raided the factory and home of the Kilemol family arresting the family and Big Joe. 3 Italy police officers, 1 State Trooper and 2 Texas Rangers lost their lives in the gunfight that ensued. Eventually, 66 bodies were found in and around the farm and fragmented human remains from up to 600 additional victims were obtained. Police reports indicate most were past identification.

Mr. and Mrs. Kilemol were sent to rot and die in prison along with Jack Bill and Jenny Lynn. Baby Girl was placed in a foster home with loving parents. But that didn’t last for long as she killed them only to escape and go back to the farm. Big Joe had escaped the mental institution as well, after killing all the orderlies on his floor and two doctors on staff. It has been reported over the years that Baby Girl and Big Joe still live at the old meat company and homestead, and the townsfolk still report seeing them once in a while, yet every time the police show up Big Joe and Baby Girl are nowhere to be found. Still, missing persons files seem to continue to grow in the small town of Italy, Texas, yet not one body has been found. The locals in and around Italy say that the spirits of these very angry victims still haunt the old homestead and factory.

Now, this story may just seem like another cut’em up Texas style story. However, after years of what seemed like abandonment several entrepreneurs have bought the old meat plant. It has been opened up to the public for a Haunted House during October to test if people are brave enough to enter and hopefully make it through. The police claim that all of the Kilemols passed away in the past few years in prison; however there are no death certificates on file for anyone with the surname Kilemol in the past 30 years-not to mention Big Joe and BabyGirl. Nobody knows what happened to them either. It is this reporter’s strong belief that under no circumstances should the public be allowed into the old meat plant, and I strongly recommend against visiting the haunted house. I am under the impression that I will have many more mysterious disappearances to write about by the end of October.