Butcher's Bill
TOTAL DEATHS: 9
TOTAL ATTACKS: 10
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JULY 8 (05/15/2017):
Zeno was lured to a remote grove of trees, attacked, and left for dead. He got better!
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JULY 10th:
Omi and Ouka were also targeted by Jay during Tanabata, but they weren't killed until the 10th. Their bodies were laid out in a more distant park, with no damage other than a single stab wound at the base of each of their skulls.
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JULY 17th (05/24/2017):
Late night July 17th/early morning July 18th, Johan Anderson's (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rainbowmaster) body was found, not far from the path that leads to his temple. His head, however, was not found with his body.
Further investigation will discover his head, blindfolded with a strip torn from Johan's shirt, in the crook of a tree about a hundred meters away from his body. His head has been removed through a combination of sawing with a very sharp, thin-bladed knife, and twisting brute force.
CLUES:
As this is a less trafficked area than the parks where previous victims have been found, it will be possible for an excellent tracker to spot clues in the parched dirt of the path and the tall dry grass on the sides of the road. They might determine that the murderer was wearing a shoe approximately 27cm in length, and that, based on the height of the head in the tree, the murderer needs to be at least 170cm tall. It would take a great deal of strength to remove a head in this manner. From the postmortem bruising on Johan's face, the murderer had relatively large hands with the standard five fingers (so, no robots or tentacle monsters this time). There is a great deal of blood in the grass, and a blood trail leading from Johan's body to his head, but no blood trail after that point. The footprints in the grass vanish at this point as well.
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JULY 18th:
About thirty minutes after Johan died, Venus (loveheart) was murdered as well. She was approached by an unknown assailant shortly after dawn, on her way to Hibiki's temple with a shopping bag full of tea supplies. She saw her attacker and was able to scream briefly, but her attacker moved fast and stabbed her repeatedly and ferociously in the chest, cutting off her scream. She suffered defensive wounds during this attack. The final blow was to the base of her skull, at which point she collapsed to the ground.
Her attacker fled in the direction of the nearest body of water (lake, river, whatever happens to be in range). There is a faint but distinct blood spatter trail leading to the edge of the water, but then the attacker entered the water and the trail was lost.
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( Murder #7 )
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( Murder #8 )
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( Murder #9 )
As always, if you have any questions and/or would like to discuss clues/the investigation/etc, please feel free to comment here! EDIT OF CLARIFICATION: If you would like more clues about any of the crime scenes, please feel free to ask! There's always more information that a good investigator can glean from a crime scene.
TOTAL ATTACKS: 10
(While I will be updating this post with all relevant #murderplot information, any interested participants may also want to friendrequest
( Want to know more? )
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JULY 8 (05/15/2017):
Zeno was lured to a remote grove of trees, attacked, and left for dead. He got better!
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JULY 10th:
Omi and Ouka were also targeted by Jay during Tanabata, but they weren't killed until the 10th. Their bodies were laid out in a more distant park, with no damage other than a single stab wound at the base of each of their skulls.
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JULY 17th (05/24/2017):
Late night July 17th/early morning July 18th, Johan Anderson's (
rainbowmaster) body was found, not far from the path that leads to his temple. His head, however, was not found with his body. Further investigation will discover his head, blindfolded with a strip torn from Johan's shirt, in the crook of a tree about a hundred meters away from his body. His head has been removed through a combination of sawing with a very sharp, thin-bladed knife, and twisting brute force.
CLUES:
As this is a less trafficked area than the parks where previous victims have been found, it will be possible for an excellent tracker to spot clues in the parched dirt of the path and the tall dry grass on the sides of the road. They might determine that the murderer was wearing a shoe approximately 27cm in length, and that, based on the height of the head in the tree, the murderer needs to be at least 170cm tall. It would take a great deal of strength to remove a head in this manner. From the postmortem bruising on Johan's face, the murderer had relatively large hands with the standard five fingers (so, no robots or tentacle monsters this time). There is a great deal of blood in the grass, and a blood trail leading from Johan's body to his head, but no blood trail after that point. The footprints in the grass vanish at this point as well.
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JULY 18th:
About thirty minutes after Johan died, Venus (
loveheart) was murdered as well. She was approached by an unknown assailant shortly after dawn, on her way to Hibiki's temple with a shopping bag full of tea supplies. She saw her attacker and was able to scream briefly, but her attacker moved fast and stabbed her repeatedly and ferociously in the chest, cutting off her scream. She suffered defensive wounds during this attack. The final blow was to the base of her skull, at which point she collapsed to the ground. Her attacker fled in the direction of the nearest body of water (lake, river, whatever happens to be in range). There is a faint but distinct blood spatter trail leading to the edge of the water, but then the attacker entered the water and the trail was lost.
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( Murder #7 )
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( Murder #8 )
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( Murder #9 )
As always, if you have any questions and/or would like to discuss clues/the investigation/etc, please feel free to comment here! EDIT OF CLARIFICATION: If you would like more clues about any of the crime scenes, please feel free to ask! There's always more information that a good investigator can glean from a crime scene.