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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

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[in person, after Gar has requested a meeting]
[Gar hands over the manila envelope with a copy of the tapes and a copy of everything they found in Zee's office and especially on his phone, which he suspects that the police don't actually have the password to.]

...
...
...

You're a suspect, too, but you're the only policeman who's handling this. You need to like... do this right. Or James is gonna be in jail forever.

I'm gonna let everyone else know in a few days. After I figure out what to say.

...He didn't do it.

Edited 2018-09-26 02:36 (UTC)

[in person, after Gar gives the run-down]
Soooooooooo... is that... all OK? I know it's all a lot.

[...]

Also, um, can you do me a huge favor and like, spell-check something. And grammar-check. And maybe just like... rewrite the whole thing 'cause I'm not great at English.

Edited 2018-09-26 02:34 (UTC)

hey bro
remember when you said
you would be on call for important stuff

i've got an important stuff

[Under the name Beta#09015505]

Thanks for the information. It's nice to see it all compiled.

That said, I know for a fact it wasn't Eren.

I sincerely doubt that Eren Jaeger committed the murder. It just doesn't suit his aesthetic, to put it a simple way.

As for James Barnes, while he carries a lot of guilt for what he *did* do, I can swear as a witness to his character that he would not have killed this man. He made his feelings on killing abundantly clear when I killed some of Clarence's minions during a mission Zee had sent us on.

[ well this is
upsetting ]

It can't be Minato.
He went off the app at the beginning of this month.

What makes you believe it was not Barnes?
Beyond the misunderstanding of his arrest, I mean.

[Holy shit. Tatsuo has to just sit and read this over a few times. Especially when it comes to the 'suspect list.' He knows more than a few of those names, either in person or from the network. But he can't say he knows them very well, other than Togusa.]

How'd you get into his office? I tried and there was some sort of force field or barrier preventing me from getting into the room.

And any chance you copied anything down the conversations he was having with Jaeger, Valdez, Arisato, and Togusa? And when you say people he checked on, do you mean he looked at Retrospec's file on them? Because we know they keep files on us. Were you able to look at those files?

Though, it's not Togusa. He's way too straight arrow.

[from acct: alpha#05011856]

you think i what?

[ excuse leo while he stARTS TO PANIC A LITTLE?!?? it's not like his past self was already a murderer or anything!!! ]

man come on minato and eren arent really the murdery type
i mean sure theyre ridiculous
but not in the mcstabby kinda way

anyway minato didnt even have the app when zee died

First James Barnes and now this.

Barnes hamstrung the law enforcement on the app by giving the NPCs an easy answer. We now have to waste time and resources springing him.

And now The Watchers pull this. Now whoever killed Zee knows that people are looking for them. We are either going to lose them and any hope of actually getting something to help Barnes or the number of murders is going to go up and people are going to die because the killer is going to try and dissuade investigation.

It's so magnificently short-sighted that I'm surprised you thought to use a pseudonym.

You do not know me. But there is someone in that list of suspects that I am deeply concerned with. If anything happens to them, Watchers, because of your lack of foresight - then I will find you.

And you will learn who I am.

Edited 2018-09-26 20:23 (UTC)

Until this is over, I'm loathe to identify myself by name because anonymity is going to be the only protection some of us have. But I'm a friend of Hitori Togusa.

Did you notice that there is only one person out of the five still left on the app that Zee didn't contact about the situation with the murders?

If you’re going to call us out by name, you might as well post the conversations. If you don’t, I’ll post mine.

But how do we know for a fact that you’re not directly involved with the murder and just making scapegoats for yourself? “Watchers in the Dark”.

Edited 2018-09-26 23:03 (UTC)

Thank you for this information, though it’s really risky leaving any kind of list with full names. While I find it hard to believe some of these people are possibly involved, it’s good to start somewhere.

It feels like the evidence we really need is the item itself unless we can catch them in the act.

are you sure it wasnt james?

its just that last month i got in a fight with him

and he went right for my neck. with knives.

[knives. plural. why is it ALWAYS KNIVES?]

[ When he first read the announcement, Akira was pissed. Of course he would be. His name put so clearly there was an indication he's made a careless mistake.

But he takes the time he needs to step back and reconsider. Really...it's a boon, isn't it?

Yes, now he has an idea of what might be had on him. It shouldn't be that surprising that Zee would have been looking into Akira before his death. Of course he had been, that's why he called Akira to his office in the first place. That this was discovered should have been assumed from the start. That it is already out of the hands of the police is what's curious.

But very well. "Watchers in the Dark". He accepts your challenge. ]

I'm not sure I can offer anything that hasn't already been stated by other users, but I am surprised that I haven't heard of your group before.

I only have one question for you lot, for the time being - that being the specific question of why you're so concerned with this in the first place.

I personally see no reason to mourn Zee Carlisle. My conversations with him were affable enough, but not all of us choose to ally ourselves with Retrospec. If one of them is down, then I can't say I have much complaint with whomever is responsible.

Watchers in the Dark, huh?

This is incredibly thorough. I'm impressed, and I'm bad at detective work.

That said, if you need my help (this is Kara since there's those damn numbers) please let me know.

I have a number of questions but I believe this conversation would be better to have in person. Would you be willing to meet?

[ So he can scold you. ]

The blood message was a bit dramatic...

That being said, how can you be sure that the killer came from that group of people you listed? It can't be THAT easy.

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