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Case 40: Ironrow
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 6 years, 3 months. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Fiala, Dympna. 52. Core maker at Ostrand Foundry, Ironrow, twenty-six years, and convener of the local's strike committee. Found at two minutes to midnight on a Thursday in October, six years ago, in the road at the foundry's main gate, by the two pickets coming on at midnight. The Ashport coroner's office: struck by a vehicle, death within minutes. Window 10:30 PM to midnight. It rained all night. The police looked for one of the foundry's night trucks, or a driver passing, who did not stop. The local would not give up its picket book without a court order, nobody sought one, and the police filed it open in January. That March the local let the police copy the book. The book has not been seen since; our copy is the archive's. Her phone went to property locked. It is open now. This year Ashport records asked the port police for their desk book, the cook at the union hall for his, and five people where they were. One of them brought in her old phone. The desk book and the cook's book stand. Five names. -V
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