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Case 41: Dry Lake
An opening brief from the fictional Coldmere County case files. Cold for 4 years, 6 months. This introduction contains no report, evidence inventory or closing scene.
Bureau opening brief
Lizarraga, Custodio. 72. Ran the boat rental on the lake on the Flats, Palewater, for thirty years, until the water went; it has not been a lake for ten years. Found at five past six on a Sunday morning in July, four years ago, in the back of his own pickup a mile out on the dry lakebed, by the parks office's ranger. Dr. Marchetti: asphyxia. Window 9:00 PM Saturday to 1:00 AM Sunday. The Palewater police had the ranger's photographs of the tire tracks, could not say which were that night's, and filed it open. His phone went to property locked. The lab has opened it. This year Palewater records asked the parks office for the ranger's book for that weekend, his daughter for his papers, and three people where they were that night. The ranger's book stands. Three names. -V
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