THE TRUE STORY OF GEORGE EMIL BANKS
Chaos and Confusion
Police were still searching for Banks.� Patrol cars spread out through the city shining lights in back yards and alleyways hoping to catch a glimpse of the dangerous fugitive.� Around 5:30 a.m. George awoke, still wearing his military fatigues, his rifle at his side.� Uncertain what to do, he ran to the home of his mother, Mary Banks Yelland, located at 98 Metcalfe Street.� George was crying and smelled like liquor when his mother opened the door:
Banks: Mom, if you dont take me where I want to go, there will be a shootout here and you will be hurt.
Yelland: George, whats wrong?
Banks: Its all over, Mom. Its all over. I did it.� I killed everyone.
Yelland: Who did you kill, Georgie? Who did you kill?
Banks: I killed them all, Mom. I killed all the kids and girls. Regina, Sharon, them all.
Yelland: Georgie, no!
Banks: Its all over, Mom. Its all over.
Following the conversation with his mother, George sat down at her kitchen table and began writing a crude will leaving her all of his possessions.� Mary Banks Yelland was in a state of shock and decided to phone Georges home in the hopes that what he had confided in her was simply part of his drunken imagination.� Chief County Detective Jim Zardecki answered the phone at School House Lane when it rang.� George grabbed the phone from his mother and identified himself:
Banks: This is George Banks, how are the kids?
Zardecki: They are alive, George
Banks: Youre lying, I know I killed them!
Banks hung up the telephone. �Zardecki had hoped that if George thought the children were still alive, he could keep him on the phone long enough for police to locate him.� He was wrong.� Banks placed three 30-round clips and numerous other rounds of ammunition into a bag and asked his mother to drive him to a friends recently vacated rental house at 24 Monroe Street.� Yelland did as George requested, dropped him off in front of the house and drove away.� When she got home, she was greeted by a phalanx of police and hesitantly told them where she had just taken her son.
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