Identify The Person Responsible
The evidence points somewhere. Decide whose account fails when everything is compared.
Case File 001 // Recovered Archive
The Ashford Tape
A missing radio host. A forgotten broadcast tower. A truth buried for decades.
Mara Vale vanished while investigating a decades-old tower accident. Years later, the recovered file has reached the Bureau. The statements, photographs and records are yours now.
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Open The File Begin with the investigator briefing.
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Examine Evidence Read, compare and question everything.
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Build Your Theory Determine who, where and why.
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Submit Findings Use the QR portal to verify your answer.
Recovered Evidence // Case 001
The Investigation
Mara Vale Disappeared.
Her investigation led back to a forgotten broadcast tower and an accident that had been buried for years. Then Mara disappeared too.
The Bureau has reconstructed the surviving archive: statements, police notes, a broadcast transcript, photographs, a map fragment and an encoded transmission.
There is no narrator walking you through the answer. Read the file like an investigator. Find what does not fit. Follow it until the story breaks open.
Evidence Included
What's Inside The File
Each piece is designed to feel like part of a recovered investigation archive. Some documents give answers. Others create questions.
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Investigator BriefingYour starting point and known facts.
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Suspect ProfilesPeople connected to the disappearance.
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Witness StatementsAccounts that may not agree.
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Police Case NotesThe original investigative trail.
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Broadcast TranscriptA record of what was said on air.
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Evidence PhotographLook closer than the original investigators did.
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Map FragmentLocation evidence from the archive.
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Encoded TransmissionA message that needs to be understood.
Can You Close The File?
Review the evidence and determine the truth behind Mara Vale's disappearance.
Confirm What Happened To Mara
Use the records and physical clues to reconstruct where the investigation ultimately led.
Uncover The Motive
A solved case needs more than a name. Explain why the crime happened and what was being protected.
Case File 001 // Available Now
Open The Ashford Tape
Choose the printable digital archive or receive the physical investigation package by mail. Both contain the complete case.
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