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Beast Boy ([personal profile] thebeastwithout) wrote in [community profile] retrospec2018-09-25 09:46 pm

Justice

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Ladies and gentlemen of the public court. The following is submitted into evidence for your viewing.

Zee Carlisle, also Zachariah Carlisle, was murdered in late August by persons unknown. The cause of death appears to be stabbing by a long sharp object on the roof of the Wiffle Waffle Waffle House. No other persons appear in the video. However, the series of events is recorded as follows:

1) Zee Carlisle is observed approaching the Wiffle Waffle House and checking the mailbox repeatedly for some time.
2) Zee begins to fall as if he has been struck, disappearing as he does so. Outside sources have confirmed that Zee was able to teleport short distances.
3) He next appears on the security tape on the roof of the building, impaled on an unknown object.
4) He teleports again, where his body is found obscuring the entrance of the Wiffle Waffle waffle house some time later. Witnesses confirm that it was as if he appeared out of nowhere.
5) The words "Jim, did you know" appear on the side of the waffle house written in blood.

Video of the death has been loaded onto a working laptop in the public library for your examination. Do not try to destroy the video or the laptop. There are many copies.

In Zee's office, the following evidence was discovered:
1) A list of former Retrospec users who appear to no longer be on the app. It is not certain when they left.
2) A list of non-Retrospec users who have died within the last few months. These people are all criminals. They have all died in strange and unexplained or self-inflicted ways.
3) The last six individuals Zee checked on before he left his office and died. These individuals are: James Barnes. Akira Turner. Eren Jaeger. Leo Valdez. Minato Arisato. Hitori Togusa.
4) Conversations between Zee and the following individuals concerning a task he needed to focus on or on the increasingly dangerous situation in Recolle: Eren Jaeger. Leo Valdez. Minato Arisato. Hitori Togusa.
5) Multiple photos of the mailbox.

We propose the following:
Zee Carlisle was investigating the mysterious deaths and believed them to be murders. Those who had left the app were no longer suspects as they did not retain their regained items or abilities. Zee believed that the murders were conducted by the use of an item returned to a Retrospec user. Zee was concerned that other items would be returned, either to the same Retrospec user, or to others, that would be misused.

When he went to the mailbox in person, the Retrospec user realized that Zee had grown too close to their identity. Zee was thus murdered using this item. We know that this person is able to use this item to commit murders while making it appear to be something else, even after medical examination. The deaths were ruled as heart attack, suicide, and choking. It is possibly something extremely powerful, such as a kind of illusion ability or mind control or even a magical spell that causes death. At least one of the victims called the police in advance to report that they were dying. However, we know the ability must be used as a physical item as it was returned through the mailbox.

The words in blood are a red herring or an unfinished message to the Retrospec app manager called Jim. We do not know what was being written at this time.

The identity of the murderer is likely to be one of those Zee had personally identified. James Barnes, Akira Turner, Eren Jaeger, Leo Valdez, Minato Arisato, and Hitori Togusa. Currently, James Barnes has been arrested and convicted of this murder. However, we are uncertain if he is the true culprit as his arrest was due to a misunderstanding.

All evidence and information has been passed to the legal authorities. If you have doubts, you may await their investigation.

Enemy of justice, your days are numbered. We will continue to work.

Signed,
The Watchers in the Dark
floret: (if the law is their cross)

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[personal profile] floret 2018-09-26 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
You're confessing to murders now too?!
liberal_arts: (daylight breaking overhead)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2018-09-26 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
In battle, we don't really call it murdering, you know.
floret: (if the law is their cross)

[personal profile] floret 2018-09-27 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
You're confessing to homicide now too?!
liberal_arts: (dosu kiri)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2018-09-27 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

That doesn't actually change anything, you know.
floret: (i had no right)

[personal profile] floret 2018-09-28 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
What? Yes it does.
Doesn't it?
Like, anytime someone kills someone else, it's a homicide, but then the DA or judge or whoever decides whether it was murder or manslaughter, or self-defense or whatever.
Right?
(It's been a while since I watched it but I think it was like that on Crime & Punishment: Bad Intentions)
liberal_arts: (little things that make you look cute)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2018-09-28 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It's legal semantics.

And you'll note we don't put soldiers on trial who kill enemy soldiers in battle.
floret: (eight co-defendants)

[personal profile] floret 2018-09-28 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I mean... that's the legal framework for it, but I was just acknowledging that killing someone isn't necessarily the same thing as murdering someone. And "homicide" just means killing someone... which you already said you did...
So like
I do think I get where you're coming from, but
Can you see why it was a little alarming? For someone to casually talk about killing people on a post about trying to find a murderer?


[ even if literally no one else had any reaction to it, including the Watcher for Justice or whoever, making Jamie question whether he might have fallen into yet another parallel universe ]
liberal_arts: (kissed by a rose on the grave)

[personal profile] liberal_arts 2018-09-29 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

Very well. You make a sound point. I apologize for any undue alarm I caused.