The Butcher Game

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, graphic violence, child abuse, and mental illness.

Jeremy spent summers in the Berkshires with his family when Jeremy and Philip were teenagers. They drank beer at bars using poorly made fake IDs, took Philip’s parents’ boat out at night, and drove round in Philip’s Jeep. Philip was invincible because his father was a judge, so they never got in trouble for their behavior. One night, a drunken Philip tried to toss his car keys to Jeremy. The keys almost hit a girl who was also leaving the bar. She tried to flirt with Jeremy, who got overly defensive and gave the keys back to Philip. Philip began driving, but he nodded off behind the wheel. He then hit the woman from the bar, who was walking on the dark road.

Philip thought he hit a deer, but Jeremy knew immediately that it was a person. They got out of the car and saw the woman lying on the ground. Philip panicked and wanted to call 911, but Jeremy told him that this would ruin his life since he was drunk driving. Instead, Jeremy decided to take the woman, whom they identified as Morgan Davies from her driver’s license, into the woods.