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Case 18: Overtime
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 3 years, 1 month. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Urrutia, Carmen. 44. Night waitress, the Brickfield Diner, Kiln Road, Ashdown, fourteen years. Found at 7:10 on a Friday morning, three years ago, in the old clay pit at the foot of Claypit Lane, by the fire service crew on its weekly check of the draw point. Dr. Bell: drowned, alive when she went in. Window 12:30 to 3:00 AM. Fog all night, and nobody saw the lane. Her phone was on the post at the pit's edge, and the team read it. They filed it undetermined. This year I asked Ashdown Tow and Recovery for its receipt book for that night. The yard's receipts stand. Three names. -V
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