| From: | Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Yet another murder.... |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Jun 1998 16:24:35 +0100 |
>>>>>time with cyanide, atropine, and all sorts of other nasty poisons, but
>>>>>_methanol_? Of all the wacked-out things to kill someone with.
+++++ Begin News Clip ++++++
Good evening, I'm Charlie Fingers, coming to you with all the news that's
fit to broadcast, and a lot that isn't. I'm here at the site of what was a
raging party before Ms. Margaret Thompson's dead body was discovered in the
bedroom next to four shotglasses and a bottle of methanol-laced vodka. Or
perhaps it would be more accurate to say a vodka bottle with vodka-laced
methanol inside. Ms. Thompson was seen by several witnesses entering the
room alone with the bottle of Skyy Vodka, which had been brought to the
party by some as yet unidentified person. She was discovered approximately
20 minutes later by a partier, unconscious. She was pronounced dead on
arrival at Seattle General Hospital. Knight Errant Security, the provider
for the appartment's security, reported that thier security cameras had
captured the person who had brought the bottle on video, but that no-one
matching that description was seen entering or leaving the appartment
complex, and that no-one matching the description lived in the complex.
Ms. Thompson was one of several Downtown reporters for the Seattle
Chronicle, and had no family.
Is this another example of the police and security resting on thier
laurels? This reporter hopes to find out....
+++++ End News Clip +++++ ]<<<<<
-- Trideo Pirate <14:58:15/06-03-59>
*****INTERNAL: Detective Pardy Homocide Log
>>>>>[Ms. Margaret Thompson, journalist for the Seattle Chronicle, was
>>>>>murdered last night when she drank 4 shots of nearly pure methanol.
>>>>>How she managed not to notice the obvious taste of methanol is a
>>>>>mystery at this time, but I'll try to put some clarity into the case.
I feel that this case connects directly to the rest of the what are being
called the goblet murders here at the station, yet these drinks were hardly
goblets. The victim drank out of four different shot glasses, one shot per
glass. If it weren't for two peices of evidence, this would easily be
written off as an accident. First, the bottle of Skyy vodka was sealed and
full, yet still full of methanol rather than vodka. This indicates
premeditation on the part of whoever brought the murder. Second, there are
reports that Ms. Thompson contacted Lone Star to report that she was being
followed home from the Chronicle, and the last several days, she called in
daily, pretty nervous. It's possible that the person or persons who Ms.
Thompson felt were tailing her were the ones who killed her.
The number of possible suspects is quite large, unfortunately. Ms.
Thompson made a large number of enemies in the Chronicle as well as down at
City Hall and in several of the large corporate enclaves downtown.
However, I don't think that any of these groups actually murdered Ms.
Thompson, because it ties in too well to the goblet killings. First we
have one goblet filled with blood, then a woman is poisoned, and there are
two crystal wineglasses. Then there's the matrix artist and part-time
decker who was killed by the simultaneous inputs of three black BTLs, each
of which had goblet painted on them. And now a woman who passes out
precisely after finishing 4 shots of methanol, without noticing that the
liquid she was drinking wasn't vodka. Witnesses from the party reported
that she appeared drunk, yet not that she actually drank anything. In
fact, the only container besides the four shot glasses and the Skyy bottle
that even had her fingerprints on them was a plastic cup filled with
filtered tap water.
I'm waiting for forensics to get back to me, but I'm wondering if there
might be another magical connection here. If so....]<<<<<
-- Detective Pardy Homocide Log <16:24:09/06-03-59>
