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Case 10: Shift Change
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 5 years, 2 months. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Rehak, Gustav. 56. Flask-yard man on days, Ostrand Foundry, Ironrow, thirty-one years. Found at 8:50 on a Friday morning, five years ago, under the fallen end of a stack of iron flasks in the foundry's flask yard, by the crane driver who went in for the empties. The Ashport coroner's office: crush injuries to the chest, death within minutes. Window 4:00 PM Thursday to 8:00 AM Friday. It rained all night, and the office would not narrow it. His time card was found in the nights rack, and the original file has him on a double, his day and then a night. The team filed an accident at the end of twenty-four hours on his feet. His phone went to property locked. The lab has opened it. This year Ashport records went back to Ostrand for its papers. Nobody had asked for them before. The timekeeper keeps a book at the clock, in ink. The book stands. Three names. -V
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