Interesting Findings...

11.02.2018

If you thought things were crazy the last time I wrote, wait till you read what happened today. There was…another. Dead. Body. Alright wait, let me rewind a little and start from the beginning. It has been a whirlwind of a week, what with the ferryman’s murder and Harry Mathews attempting to ruin my reputation as a mortician more than it already is. He even had the nerve to show up at my door to ‘know my opinions’ as if he wasn’t going to twist everything that came out of my mouth. Best believe the only reply that I gave him was a slammed door in his face. The meeting to discuss the autopsy report was also a trainwreck (surprise, surprise) and in the end, the townsfolk were STILL undecided about who they believed, though they did note that the ‘scuffle wounds’ (UGH) were definitely suspicious given their placement. I have decided to maintain mental peace and accept this, beggars can’t be choosers. The next couple of days were devoid of any action other than Antonio and his search party heading out across the island to see if they could find any clues. They found nothing for two days but then today happened. This is where things get interesting. After looking ALL over the island, Antonio and the party were able to find nothing connected to the murder but the day they decided to look through the Kabot woods, voila, there is ANOTHER dead body. This time it was J. Yonah. Jamieson, the photographer. I didn’t know him much but I do remember going to his studio with Grandpa when I was younger. I didn’t care much for him but that was mainly because I never really interacted with him. Anyway, back to the topic. It was Jose who found the body, apparently. He and Antonio rushed with the body to the morgue at around 06:30 pm today, looking very, very worried. I liked this body better than the earlier one because this one gave me more scope to test out my knowledge given that it was already decaying and had definitely been dead for a few days now. From the blunt force trauma to his head and various other injuries all over his body (including that weird incision behind his knee which I can’t make sense of) I could make out that his death had been a very violent one. All this already is very interesting, I know, but then something else happened and that has been bugging my brain ever since. As I was wrapping up my examination of the body and putting it into the mortuary cabinet, I heard Jose and Antonio talking outside where they were waiting for me to get done. They both sounded so anxious. From what I could gather, they both were worried that this was a repeat of something. Now, this is intriguing because , knowing the details of the current murders, I, too, did think of the series of murders that had happened on the island back when I was a kid, but I genuinely thought that the small similarities had been a coincidence. Antonio and Jose also perhaps considering this makes things a lot more...let’s just say, confusing. I think I’m going to ask Yusuf about all of this when I meet him (which is right now, so I really must get going), he always has something useful to add. So yeah, that's that. I shall talk more about this when I have more intel.

-Drew Smith