[Delta Green] Operas and Avatars: Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays

[taitzu52]

"Huh.", says Andrews, crossing his arms as he looks over Brown's shoulder at the laptop. "Well, send it into IT at the Bureau in DC, let one of the geeks work for you. If that doesn't work, I still have friends at the NSA who do this crap for a living. Meteors....well *CED*, put it on the calendar." Andrews marks the 18th of January on the list of events to look for any correlation, thinking to himself, hell, if it worked for Nancy Reagan....

 

[Maerdwyn]

"Will do." He does, sending the email, and a brief explanation of why the inquiry is being made - he is trying to trace the source of the email. A few more things click into place as he's typing and he turns back to Andrews.

"Braverman's kids were partially...eaten...as well. I think we need the coroner to compare the bite marks on all three of the Braverman autopsy reports. If they don't match up with each other, we've got evidence of more than one person involved. I think we should also get hold of the elder Bravermans' dental records, to rule them in or out as the cannibal or cannibals. If there's only one, and I hope there is, I guess that could only be Eliane. Kenneth didn't eat his own liver, and there weren't any other fingerprints in the car. I'll call Lt. Randal in Houston to see if they ever looked at the wife for any of this."

He calls Randall, both to ask about Eliane, and to see about the possibility of getting both of their dental records for comparison with the autopsy reports.

 

[Gomez]

"Well, send it into IT at the Bureau in DC, let one of the geeks work for you. If that doesn't work, I still have friends at the NSA who do this crap for a living.

You send the email to the IT geeks in DC. They say that it will take about a day to track the address.

Andrews marks the 18th of January on the list of events to look for any correlation, thinking to himself, hell, if it worked for Nancy Reagan....

Looking over the evidence, the date January 18th does not correlate with any of the events you know of.

Brown calls Randall, both to ask about Eliane, and to see about the possibility of getting both of their dental records for comparison with the autopsy reports.

Lt. Randal in Houston says that from what you have come up with it would be logical that Eliane was the killer. Though evidence on their end pointed to Kenneth (DNA found on one of the prostitute's body and fingerprints at the scene). He says that he will forward the Braverman's dental records and the coroners reports on the Braverman kids to the Phoenix Medical examiner.

 

[taitzu52]

Andrews draws up a list of relevant dates:

January 18- Comet in WV.
June 1 - Approx. Begay sheep begin to disappear.
June 24-30 Kenneth Braverman's death
July 13- Approx. Begay family murdered. Last sheep deaths.

July 4 - Allen and Karen Curtley Car found abandoned on 70 en route to son’s house.
July 6 - Felix Royos Gas station attendant working night shift on 70.
July 10 - Ed Stoltz and Chris Martin Fishermen at he reservoir near 70; camp undisturbed.
July 15 - Rolf Trautner and Freda Ollenburg German tourists: rental car found abandoned on 70.
July 15 - Dieter and Vera Van Olsen Dutch tourists; rental car found abandoned on 70.
July 27 - Begay Family (four) Farm near 70 abandoned for at least a week.

"What we're missing at this point," he says, "are the dates from the Braverman family murders, Elaine's disappearance, and the prostitute murders. You're expecting a fax from Houston, right Brown?"

Andrews starts researching cults in the American Southwest. Getting online and searching through Bureau records, he tries to track down any Agents with experience on the matter, group profilers as it were.

Andrews looks at a map to see which reported disappearance the Braverman Taurus was closest to. "I'm thinking that we should work our way backwards. Did we cover the ground from the tourist's car abandonment's yesterday?", Andrews says, pointing to the map. "If so, I think a trip to the reservoir is in order. You driving?"

(OOC- Gomez, help me fill in any blanks that I'm missing, or any dates that are off. Thanks.)

 

[Gomez]

Andrews draws up a list of relevant dates:

January 18, 2004- Comet in WV.
June 1, 2005 - Approx. Kenneth Braverman's death
June 7 - Approx. Begay sheep begin to disappear.
July 20- Approx. Begay family murdered. Last sheep deaths.

July 4 - Allen and Karen Curtley Car found abandoned on 70 en route to son’s house.
July 6 - Felix Royos Gas station attendant working night shift on 70.
July 10 - Ed Stoltz and Chris Martin Fishermen at he reservoir near 70; camp undisturbed.
July 15 - Rolf Trautner and Freda Ollenburg German tourists: rental car found abandoned on 70.
July 15 - Dieter and Vera Van Olsen Dutch tourists; rental car found abandoned on 70.
July 27 - Begay Family (four) Farm near 70 abandoned for at least a week.

OOC: I changed some of the first dates. Note the year is 2005 and the meteor shower was in early 2004.

 

[Gomez]

You get a fax from the Houston PD. I contains the Braverman case files. Basically it says.

Three months ago there were a number of prostitute murders in and around Houston Texas. Several people had seen the same man in the company of each prostitute before she disappeared. Composite drawings based on the decriptions led detectives to a colleague-Houston police officer Kenneth Braverman. His car and license plate where also identified. Corpses were found, or at least parts of them, hidden away in drainage pipes and abandoned buildings. All the corpses were drained of blood and some had been sexually molested and partially eaten. When the police investigation began to focus on Braverman, he murdered his children, kidnapped his wife, and fled Houston.

 

[taitzu52]

(OOC- So this only leaves a two week window for Braverman's murders, is my math correct? Lemme know how much ground we've covered in the chopper, and we'll make a game plan for our next ground investigation.)

 

[Gomez]

(OOC- So this only leaves a two week window for Braverman's murders, is my math correct? Lemme know how much ground we've covered in the chopper, and we'll make a game plan for our next ground investigation.)

OOC: I see what you mean. Ok I have changed the Houston murders to three months ago. As for ground covered. You searched in and around all of the known areas where missing cars and such were found. You think you have covered it pretty well.

 

[taitzu52]

Andrews calls in to Hobbson and lets him know that they'll be at the reservoir today. He asks if there are any land management official or park rangers that they could talk to. Plan B will be the gas station that Royos worked at. Andrews asks if there has been a K9 sweep of the reservoir area. If there's nothing else to research, Andrews gets in the car and follows the map.

(OOC-Unless my brilliant investigative mind tells me that I'm barking up the wrong tree.)

 

[Maerdwyn]

On the way to the resevoir,


"So it's close to three weeks since the last death that we know about, right? Counting the Houston prostitute murders as at least being connected to this timeline, thats a fairly long and uninterrupted stretch of pretty damned disgusting activity for our cannibal. Or cannibals, I guess. *CED* Anyway, in May, someone, or some people, at least involving Kenneth Braverman's DNA kill a number of prostitutes. When pressure builds against them, they kill their kids and take off, but they don't lay low - they start up again here, after killing Braverman. A steady stream of killing from May to July 20. Then nothing since. That means something, Andrews. My gut is telling me she - they - whatever - are still up to it. Either we haven't found out about the most recent victims yet, or they've moved on to an entirely new area, or both. But I don't think the killing has really stopped these last three weeks - there's nothing that would have forced them to stop, and folks who would eat their own kids aren't going to stop unless they're forced."

"I hope you'll tell me you think I'm wrong about this, though." Solomon goes quiet for a bit and drives on."