Paula Gray

Paula Gray was a worker for the Chaco Chicken processing plant in Dudley, Arkansas. As with the rest of the town, she was a member of a life-prolonging cannibalistic cult founded by her boss and maternal grandfather, Walter Chaco, that kidnapped outsiders new to the community or traveling along the nearby highway. As a result of the ritualistic consumption of human flesh, she kept the appearance of a woman in her 20's, despite being 47 years old in 1995. 
As part of her role in the cult, Paula acted as a decoy to lure safety inspector George Kearns, who believed she was willing to enter an extramaritial affair with him, into the nearby woods, where he was ambushed and killed by Sheriff Tom Arens to be ate during a ceremonial bonfire. 
In the weeks that followed, however, Paula began to experience signs of mental deterioration, unknowingly caused by prions in Kearns' flesh infected with the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. By the ninth week, she complained of headaches, insomnia and increased irritability and by the time the FBI was called into town to investigate Kearns' diappearance the next week, she suffered from intense cramps and repeated hallucinations Kearns' corpse. This culminated in a total mental breakdown in presence of Special Agents Mulder and Scully, who had arrived at the plant to question employees, taking her supervisor Jess Harold hostage with a knife. Although Scully makes a seemingly succeeding attempt to talk her down, Sheriff Arens shoots and kills Paula, whose body falls into a large feed grinder. A background check reveals the discrepancy in her birthdate and appearance to the agents, while her death and the subsequent cases of the same illness cropping up among townsfolk lead to a dispute over the targeting of outsiders within the cult. (TXF: "Our Town")
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