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Season 1: Case 1

Cold Storage

18 questions
Your job

Question the suspect below. What they let slip lands in your findings, and the moment somebody new gets named, they are brought in. When you know the story, write your report: who did it, how, and why, in your own words. You have 18 questions. Use them well.

Marco Bellini managed the bar at the Hotel Meridian. This morning he was found dead in the cold storage room at closing time. The autopsy says he died after one in the morning. We are holding one man. Eddie Marsh, nineteen, a waiter. He is jumpy and talks a lot, and people saw him leave late. He swears he knows nothing, but he talks too much for a man who knows nothing. Nobody else has been named. If someone else was in that corridor last night, Eddie is the only pair of eyes that saw them. Get him talking.

The Meridian bar, the service door left ajar.
Marco Bellini, behind his own bar. Ten years pouring.

The suspects

Eddie Marsh
a nineteen-year-old waiter at the Hotel Meridian bar
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A tall fair man in a grey coat. No name yet. Somebody saw him. Somebody always sees him.

What the police already hold

Marco died after one. Blunt force, then the cold. Death came after one in the morning, and on that the autopsy will not budge.
The latch broke from the inside. The service door was forced open on the way OUT, in a hurry, after Marco was already down.