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Case 3: Half Past Nine
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 4 years, 1 month. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Lindqvist, Edith. 63. Flat 3A, stair C, Garland Block, Fenwick Flats, thirty-four years. Found by a neighbor at 7:09 on a Friday morning, four years ago. Dr. Bell: homicide, signs of a struggle, window 9:00 to 11:00 the night before. Three neighbors put the crash at half past nine. The original team worked from that and charged nobody. Her phone was locked. It went to property unread. The lab opened it last month. It keeps network time. Three names. -V
- Case
- 3: Half Past Nine
- Tier
- file
- Cold for
- 4 years, 1 month
- City
- Coldmere
- District
- Fenwick Flats
The brief is the file’s starting premise. Some introductions refer to earlier cases; read in order to discover those connections in the game.

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