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Subject exits The Trailhead diner. Two takeout coffees. Surveillance shows the subject turning west on foot at 22:48:09.
Final outbound device ping. Triangulation places the subject inside a 240m radius of the trailhead lot. No outbound calls or texts.
2014 silver sedan found at trailhead. No signs of forced entry. Two takeout cups present and full. Engine cold.
Caller describes a hooded figure standing motionless at the ridge, approx. 02:00–02:30 on Nov 15. Snow disturbance consistent with statement (see EV-007).
The newsroom is reviewing two new witness recordings and a recovered Maglite tagged EV-011. Sign in for first access.
EV-011 · NEWEV-007
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EV-009 · NEWEV-010On November 17, 2022, two detectives interviewed Witness W-01 at her residence in Boise, Ada County. The interview was conducted with counsel present, audio recorded and assigned to evidence tag #220004172 (01) on November 20. CINEMALISTICS ingested the supplement on April 12, 2026 with names and addresses at filer request.
A college student exits a diner with two coffees and never comes back. Her car is found running. The newsroom is following two recordings and a print.
A ballistic frag from a 2019 cold case matches a 2026 robbery. Three jurisdictions, one round. Who's been holding it?
Four roadside cases, three counties, one common detail. The team has narrowed the corridor, and the suspect pool, to a single county.
Forensic examiners at the Clearwater PD crime lab have confirmed a ballistic match on specimen EV-009. The finding narrows the suspect pool to three individuals currently under review.
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The recovered flashlight tagged EV-011 has been processed. A partial latent print is now being run against the AFIS database. Results expected within 72 hours.
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The AI co-investigator has flagged two timeline discrepancies in the most recent witness recording. The newsroom is cross-referencing against cell tower data from the night in question.
Full BriefingIf EV-011 was recovered 40 meters north of the last known position, whoever placed it there had to have known the terrain. I pulled satellite images from 48 hours prior — posting the overlay now. This is premeditated.
The confirmed ballistic match is significant, but people are misreading it. It doesn't place suspect #2 at the scene — it places the weapon. That's a crucial distinction. Let me break down the chain of custody implications.
Spent the last three hours plotting every tower ping from the night in question. The 02:14 gap in the data is not a dead zone — there's a carrier switch anomaly that's being misread as silence. This person was moving fast.
I went through the full WIT-04 recording and transcribed it word-for-word. At the 22:07 mark there's a background sound the AI flagged. I think it's a car door — specific make, based on the frequency. Thread below.
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