Layout

The Winters house is a two story suburban home in the upwardly mobile district of “west Lakewood”.

Stacy’s bedroom is on the second floor, near the top of the stairs.

The garage is accessible from inside the house via a short connecting passage near the bottom of the stairs. There is a short flight of wooden stairs leading down from this passage into the garage. The garage door is automatic, a relatively recent update about which Robert Winters was purportedly quite proud.¹

Events

The Murders of Stacy Winters and Brock Carmichael

On the evening of October 18, 2015, Stacy Winters was tormented by a masked killer, who had subjected her to a cruel “game”, ostensibly for the life of Stacy’s boyfriend Brock Carmichael, whom she was unable to save. After unwittingly providing the mortal blow that finished the badly wounded Brock off, Stacy was ambushed by the killer and stabbed. She had enough strength to drag herself across the street to her neighbors, where she was discovered by Paula Henderson right before bleeding out.²

The police searched the premises, but Sheriff Clark Hudson and Medical Examiner Maggie Duval found no evidence pointing to the murderer’s identity.³

Other Interpretations

In 2015 Season 1 AU upon which Volume I of The Story so Far is based, Stacy lives at 322 Parkway Avenue. The SRU’s Lakewood does have a distinct parkway, running through Lejeune Park.⁴

Trivia

Given the entire Winters family was wiped out in a single night, it’s not clear who, if anybody, took up residence in their home after the fact. The house may still be vacant by the time of The Final Retreat, 13 months after Robert, Gina, and Stacy were killed.

1. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Prologue ↩︎
2. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Prologue ↩︎
3. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 8 ↩︎
4. Season 1 AU: Pilot, Post 1 ↩︎