Jerimiah Rackham

Jerimiah Rackham, or "Jerry" as he was commonly known, was a founding member of the secretive Dragon Baiters club at Camp Shababadahs. Jerry served a short prison sentence for his role in the club and was later murdered by the father of a child killed after his involvement with the camp ended.

Early Life

Jerry was born in N.D. 487 to parents Matilda and Johnson Rackham and grew up in a modest two-story brick house on the outskirts of New Arindell near Lieber Dam. Jerry was a precocious child who enjoyed sports and playing outside. Like most children at the time, he went to sleep-away summer camp for the first time at the age of eight. He loved the experience so much he told his parents he would spend all summer at camp if they would only let him.

Camp Shababadahs

The following year, in N.D. 496, Jerry's parents found a flier for Camp Shababadahs offering whole-summer stays for a rate much lower than any other camp in the Greater Arindell Metropolitan Area

Jerimiah Rackham

Ultimately it was the camp directors who were found guilty of the many wrongful death suits, however the key evidence came from a man named Jerimiah Rackham. "Jerry" as we was known back then, attended the very first whole-summer session at Shababadahs in its inaugural year, when he was just 9. Though he claimed not to have been the first, he openly admits to having crossed the fence several times in his first year, and organizing games that would later form the basis for the baiter initiation rites.

Jerry's plea-agreement with the authorities was never made public, and he never testified in open court. When questioned publicly, he vehemently denied founding the society, claiming that it "grew organically out of the games that we played" and aside from knowing where best to hide the book with the names, he had no involvement.

Jerry attended the camp from the age of 9 all the way until he was 17, and worked there as a full-fledged camp counselor for 6 more years. He claimed to have no involvement with the society after becoming an official councilor and that he often cautioned campers about the dangers of the dragon fence. During the 14 summer he spent at Shababadahs, 12 children were killed.

Plea Agreement

Jerry lead authorities to the secret cache of documents which helped determine the exact number of deaths and proved that the camp directors were aware of the society's existence much earlier than they had admitted to, which was instrumental in the wrongful death suits. The exact details of Jerry's agreement with authorities were kept secret, but the final filing had to be a matter of public record: he plead guilty to six counts of Conspiracy After the Fact and received 2 years in prison plus a 10 year suspended sentence "pending further developments".

Murder

Jerry served only 6 months of his 2-year sentence, at a minimum security facility where he was released early for "exemplary behavior and cooperation". The cooperation consisted of participating in a sting-operation for an unrelated case. After leaving prison, Jerry made plans to leave Arindell and change his name. However, he was found dead in his apartment from a single gunshot wound to the chest. The City Watch eventually arrested the father of one of the four children killed in the recent incident which caused the camp's closure.

Jerry, who was 41 at the time of his death, had actually recorded threats from the man in his journal, in a way predicting his own murder. The last entry ended with "How can anyone hold me responsible for the deaths that happened just now, because of games I played a lifetime ago? Especially since the whole thing really did start as a way to get girls skinny-dipping...".