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Case 26: Sunstroke
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 5 years, 5 months. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Shammas, Hisham. 64. Retired tile setter; walked the rim trail above the Flats every Sunday morning for thirty years. Found at twenty to seven on a Monday morning in August, five years ago, at post 2, two miles out from the Scarp Road trailhead, by the ranger. Dr. Marchetti: heat illness. Window 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Sunday. The Palewater police filed it as an accident, a man of sixty-four alone on the rim in August with no way to call for help. His phone went to property locked. The lab has opened it. This year Palewater records asked his daughter for his papers, and three people where they were that Sunday. The phone's own record stands. Three names. -V
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