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Small-Town Secrets

Small-Town Secrets · An online detective gameThink You Can Solve a Murder?

Read the police reports. Question the witness statements. Find what doesn’t add up, and solve the case yourself.

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The Bellweather Case

Bellweather County · Case No. BW-25-1027

Everyone is lying. But only one person’s lie is about murder.

During the town’s annual heritage fundraiser, respected property developer Daniel Mercer vanishes. His abandoned vehicle is discovered the next morning near an old riverside property he planned to redevelop. Then blood is found in the courthouse records room, beside a torn confidential document connected to a fifty-year-old land dispute.

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How it works

The police have their evidence. What do you see?

  1. The desk open on a police vehicle recovery report, with a row of exhibit tabs above it and the player’s notebook beside it.

    Open the exhibits.

    Every exhibit opens full screen: reports, statements, photographs, logs.

  2. A box being drawn round one paragraph of a police CCTV evidence log, with Mark a line switched on above it.

    Mark what matters.

    Draw a box round the line that says it, and say what it tells you in your own words.

  3. A timeline of one Saturday evening: three moments in order, each with the mark it came from and a note in the player’s words.

    Build your timeline.

    Give a mark its time and say how you know. The gaps between the moments start to talk.

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