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Merc, Maddie, and Lydia arrived at Painscreek Cemetery. Merc noticed the padlock on the gate and asked Lydia for the code that was left to them. Before Lydia could give it to him, Maddie told him it wasn’t necessary. She pointed out the reason. Merc swung open the gate, no code needed. “Seriously, dude,” he
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“So remind us,” Merc said back at the inn, “as far as suspects and theories, where are we at exactly?” “Dorothy and Derrick are the only two interviewees by Steve Moss left uneliminated,” Lydia said. “I think Dorothy was covering for Sofia, who is…still alive somewhere. Dr. Henry Johnson was embezzling funds in an offshore
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The next morning, Merc and Lydia returned from the next town to get food for that day. After breakfast, the six of them left to explore the town hospital. The windows were boarded up and the front doors were chained when they arrived, but the lock holding them was cut open, and not cleanly. It
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Lydia, Merc, and Madeline waited at the inn entrance for Janet, who had the key. Lydia said they couldn’t get into Bernard’s place. The key Merc had, despite being found in Bernard’s locker, went to something else that belonged to him. “His house key is who knows where,” Merc sighed. Inside, Janet and the twins
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The key was exactly as Dorothy left it. Janet entered first, followed by Connor, camera on, and Caylix. The living room contained a desk which was naturally searched immediately. Caylix found a bedroom key and Janet found a framed picture of Dorothy with a four or five-year-old Trisha and a journal, which she read through.
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Everyone decided it was a nice enough afternoon to eat in the patio area of the courtyard. During the meal, Connor took his camera to get close-up shots of the abandoned blue Honda nearby, saying he needed some b-roll. The inside didn’t look spectacular. It needed some serious deep-cleaning and a bit of trash lay
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As Janet, Connor, and Merc finished telling what they discovered, Lydia scribbled a few notes and questions in her notepad. “Anything in Vivian’s journals,” she asked. Janet had yet to go over them, so she began pouring over them as the teens quietly went over the other evidence, sharing what they found, Lydia writing anything
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Janet, Merc, and Connor approached the doors of the Roberts Mansion when they recalled the report that Vivian was found in front of her home. She was found by Mary Martinez, the newest maid who was hired there. Entering the unlocked home, they were met with the kind of opulence befitting an upper-class politician’s family:
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On the way to the church, Caylix said she was feeling better. “You gave yourself a real fright,” Lydia said. “It was a little more than that. My brother and I are from Japan, a country kind of obsessed with the supernatural. It’s not unusual for the media, including newspapers to have a segment about
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“So we now know that Steve Moss was the detective who came here,” Lydia said as she, Caylix, and Madeline made their way to the house on the note.
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