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The Criminal Nobody Suspected
M Mehran The first report said it was an accident. A kitchen fire. Nothing unusual—old houses do that sometimes. But by the time the fourth house burned in the same neighborhood, the town of Briar Creek stopped calling it coincidence.
By Muhammad Mehran2 months ago in Criminal
What the Witness Never Said
They say every crime has a witness. But no one talks about the witness who stays silent. The night it happened, the street was too quiet—one of those cold evenings when even the wind refuses to move. I was walking home from my late shift, keys between my fingers, heartbeat steady, mind blank. It was supposed to be an ordinary night. It almost was.
By LUNA EDITH2 months ago in Criminal
The Echo Killer. AI-Generated.
The first murder happened in 1978. At least, that's when the body was found. A jazz singer named Lila Rose, strangled in her dressing room at the Blue Note club. The case went cold, filed away with thousands of other unsolved homicides from that era.
By The 9x Fawdi2 months ago in Criminal
The Poet's Justice. AI-Generated.
The first body was found with a sonnet. It was tucked into the breast pocket of a corrupt city councilman, perfectly folded on expensive parchment. The fourteen lines didn't just describe his death; they justified it, detailing his embezzlement from a public parks fund in iambic pentameter. The cause of death was a single, precise knife wound, "a period to his wasteful line," as the poem stated.
By The 9x Fawdi2 months ago in Criminal
Ghostly Footage. AI-Generated.
The night shift at Metro Herald Newsroom was quiet—too quiet for Adrian Cole’s liking. He was a field reporter, the kind who once chased political scandals and crime rings, but now, ever since his career stumbled, he was assigned to “human interest stories.”
By Ghanni malik2 months ago in Criminal
