Fatal Fantasy | 4. The Springtime War
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The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?
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What is the premise of the Underworld game in Fatal Fantasy?
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Once he was locked up, Kyle Uelbert began calling and talking me through his version of what happened. It's more or less what he also confessed to Loudoun County investigators. Incidentally, Kyle's signature way of introducing himself, as you heard, I am the Kyle, is his rather narcissistic way of saying there is only one Kyle in this world and that he is that person. By December 12th, 2001, Kyle, his best friend, Mike Fole, and Mike's girlfriend, Katie Inglis, were in custody. Kyle was the last of the three to be picked up by investigators and hadn't revealed a whole lot about what happened that night. Then, as I mentioned in the last episode, Katie decided to fully cooperate and cut a deal, which kind of pissed Kyle off.
Because of the way she talked and the way she made out like she and Michael knew everything. And this is one of the things I wanted to get clear on the record. This is one of the things I really want you to make sure that you air for people. First thing she did when she found out she was in trouble, she made a deal with people. So she's got the incentive to come up with whatever bullshit that sounds convincing to them to secure their case so that she doesn't get any fucking time.
Talking to investigators, Katie said on that night, Kyle was dressed in his signature black trench coat with a samurai sword tucked in a scabbard attached to his hip and that the three had driven to the house, but that Kyle approached the Schwartz's front door by himself. Katie went on to say his motive partly had to do with his concerns about Clara's volatile relationship with her father. Apparently, both Kyle and Mike were convinced that Dr. Schwartz was hurting his daughter. To deal with it, Clara had written in her father as the villain in the underworld game, an arch nemesis they all called the OG or old guy. I asked Associated Press journalist Heather Greenfield about this.
So she referred to him both in the role-playing games and in real life as the old guy. But I mean, I think that's typically nicknames like that are meant to dehumanize people, unfortunately.
That Clara made him the villain of her game brought up a lot of questions about her actual relationship with her dad.
It sounded like they had a lot of conflict. There was a lot of yelling back and forth. If you look at both the relatives and what she was telling her friends, it sounded like kind of a higher level than the average trouble between a teenager and their parent.
Kyle told me one of the reasons he was so moved by Clara's complaints about her father was that he also had a bad relationship with his father, whom he accused of bullying and abuse. Here's what Kyle told investigators really happened. It began with what Mike, Katie, and Kyle referred to as an event Clara had named the Springtime War, a major narrative plot point in the Underworld game.
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