The Hayden Autumn Killings

Matthew returns to Hayden on October 1st, the day of the **Hayden Autumn Festival**.

**Noah, Catherine, Celeste, Sofia and Colin head off to a swimming-hole party.**

**Benjamin attends the additional holiday classes laid out in the morning at Hayden College.**

?

Matthew targets Benjamin first, sneaking onto the college campus. He follows Benjamin into the men's bathroom. Once inside, he pounces on Benjamin, bursting through the stall door and striking the young man. He blinds the kid with his thumbs, before repeatedly slamming his head against the back wall and side walls. He leaves Ben's corpse in the stall and leaves the campus.

**During the party, Noah and a woman venture off to have sex. After the sex is done and the girl leaves, Noah is attacked by Matt, who renders him unconscious. When Noah awakes, he finds himself gagged and tied to a large rock. After a few moments, the rock is pushed over the cliff edge, dragging Noah into the water below. Noah struggles to free himself but ends up drowning.**

Sheriff Trellings and officers investigate the scene at the campus. Trellings recalls Benjamin as a child and his daughters friend. He decides not to contact anyone about the murder, except for Ben's parents.

**Catherine, Celeste, Sofia and Colin decide to leave the party and go to Colin's house.**

?

**Matt locates Sam at his house and is briefly seen by his target, who second guesses when Matt vanishes. Sam does however go outside with a knife to have a look. He finds nothing and goes to help his mother with the shopping as she returns. Matt meanwhile has sneaked inside the house and hides in Sam's room. As Sam finishes helping and goes to his room, he is surprised by Matt. He is chocked unconscious.**

Colin and the three girls arrive at his house.

**Sam latter wakes up with a single shot handgun. The accompanying note reads: "One shot. Yourself or me". Sam exits his room and heads downstairs. He finds his mother hanging by her neck from the ceiling. He frantically cuts her down and tries to wake her up, but she is already dead. Matt appears and Sam points the gun at him. He stares back at his mother and redirects the gun to the bottom of his chin and pulls the trigger, killing himself.**

**At Colin's house, Colin, Sofia, Celeste and Catherine are residing. Colin is staring at a sexually dancing Sofia, while Celeste and Catherine make comments to one another, while making drinks. Colin and Sofia decide to head upstairs. Celeste says her and Catherine might take off, though neither of the two heading upstairs give them a response.**

Matt watches from afar as the two young ladies leave the house.

The police receive a call to Sam's house.

Matt sneaks into Collin's house while Collin and Sofia are having sex. He causes sounds downstairs, leading Collin to investigate. He attacks Collin and puts him into a confused/dazed state. He pushes Collins head between the stair banister supports and then re-positions a nearby cabinet and pushes it over onto Collin's neck/head, killing him. He attacks Sofia from behind as she finds Collin's body, choking her out. He then gags her and puts her back in the bedroom. He hides in the closet for when she wakes up.

Police secure the scene at Sam's house. Trellings arrives.

When Sofia doesn't venture down the hall and instead goes out the window, Matthew emerges from the closet, walks over to the window and hits her in the back of the head, causing her to fall over and off the roof. He climbs out after her and finishes her off with a single stab wound. He is however seen by a neighbor and flees the scene.

Catherine and Celeste......

Sheriff Trellings doubts the scene at Sam's was a murder-suicide. While at the scene he and the other officers receive news of the murders at Colin's house. Trellings thinks of Colin, Sofia, Sam, Benjamin and Patrick. He calls for the cops to put a watch out for Catherine, Celeste, Marcus and Noah.

Matt attacks Marcus in a covered parking lot. He injects Marcus with a syringe and throws him into the back of his pickup.

As he drives to his destination, Marcus covered up in the back, he is pulled over by a cop for a broken tail-light. He manages to get away by playing deaf and simply accepts the ticket.

?

As Matt observes Celeste and Catherine together, he is surprised to see a cop car pull up, with Officer Boyd and Fuller taking the girls away. He quietly follows the group.

The two girls are taken to Catherine's home, where officers Boyd and Fuller have been told to guard them. Officer Fuller reveals to Celeste and Catherine that Benjamin and Sam were discovered dead by way of murder, as well as Colin and Sofia. He further reveals that the chief suspect is Matthew Cain, also believed to be responsible for the Thorton family massacre years previous.

Matt watches the residence from further down the street. Though he remains quiet, he begins to shake and tremble, before strike the interior of his car.

?

Matt walks up the sidewalk, calmly and casually, and fires his rifle at Boyd, gunning him down, before firing the kill shot at point blank. He takes aim and fires at Trellings house and through the windows. Fuller returns fire. Catherine retrieves a shotgun from her fathers collection and assists Fuller. One legged veteran neighbor Jason Holden forces his way to his prosthetic leg and retrieves his rifle. He makes his way out of his house and assists in the gunfight. Matt returns fire to him as well. Fuller runs out of ammo, so Catherine lends him a gun of her fathers. Jason is struck in the fake leg but continues to fire back. Matt is struck in the upper arm by Catherine. Matt pulls out a fully automatic rifle and unleashes consecutive fire for what seems like ages. The three are forced to stop firing and take cover. Hearing sirens in the distance, Matt climbs into his car and speeds off. Despite being chased and returning gunfire, Matt manages to ditch his truck and flees into the forest. Pursuing officers give chase on foot. Matt fires shots at them and manages to disappear from sight.

?

Matthew walks to his destination, the hiding spot of Marcus.

?

**Marcus, inside the top floor of a derelict building, wakes up and discovers photo clippings and reports about the incident in 1986. He finds a loaded shotgun and is confronted by Matt, who is armed with blades. Marcus attempts to shoot him but he fails to chamber a round. After he does, Matt has vanished. Marcus is forced to look for a way out as Matt follows him, silently, appearing occasionally to scare a lightly cut him. Most of the exits are blocked and Marcus is unknowingly forced down a certain path. Several obstacles and hindrances are put in his path, including hungry, feral dogs. Eventually Marcus makes his way to the first floor. He has been cut several times, bitten by dogs, injured his shoulder in a fall and suffered a pierced foot. He finds one opening and exits through the door, but is immediately confronted by a shotgun wielding Matt. Marcus is out of bullets as he attempts to shoot. He breaks down emotionally and falls to his knees, begging to be sparred. Matt remains silent and shoots him dead.**

## Aftermath

Following Matthew's arrest, 16 people were dead and 4 were injured. By searching Matthew's vehicle and possessions, the authorities were able to locate his forest hideout. Two officers were injured by the traps and snares laid by Matthew, resulting in the authorities taking 48 hours to disarm the traps, enabling them to safely enter the property. An inspection of the cabin, the underground tunnels and the surrounding area unearthed 9 more corpses, bringing the total number of deaths caused by Matthew to 25. Evidence linking him to the Thorton massacre then brought the number of victims up to 32.

Two months after the rampage on November 18, Matthew was sentenced to life in prison, to be served in Kermont Gates Penitentiary.