Series: The Doppelgänger’s Funeral: How a Small-Town Land Appraiser Uncovered His Own Staged Death and Business Partner’s $4.2 Million Scheme

👉 Previous Decision: You chose to direct-confront Nora Bramwell, Derrick’s paralegal, at her residential home. I waited in the shadows near Nora Bramwell’s modest home, [more…]

👉 Previous Action: You were either rejected by your sister or secured an ally in Nora Bramwell. Nora led me down into her small, damp [more…]

👉 Previous Action: You obtained an encrypted USB drive containing deleted server logs from Derrick’s private desk, needing specific access to decrypt it. The USB [more…]

👉 Previous Decision: You chose to break into the closed county library archival terminal late at night. The county library was dark and silent, rows [more…]

👉 Previous Decision: You chose to drive across county lines to seek help from a retired police dispatcher. We drove for what felt like an [more…]

👉 Previous Action: You uncovered the vast extent of Derrick’s fraudulent land scheme and Julian Kildare’s murder. With the horrifying truth of Derrick’s crimes laid [more…]

👉 Previous Action: Derrick Croft trapped you inside your ancestral barn and set it ablaze. The heat was unbearable, the smoke suffocating. I coughed, my [more…]

👉 Previous Action: Nora Bramwell rescued you from the burning barn and prepared to expose Derrick Croft. Inside the packed Gideon Crest Town Hall, Mayor [more…]

👉 Previous Action: Derrick Croft and Garrett Kincaid were arrested after their conspiracy was exposed live at the Town Hall Gala. The aftermath was a [more…]

👉 Previous Action: Derrick Croft’s illegal toxic dumping created a $2.4 million environmental cleanup liability, threatening to bankrupt the town. The town hall buzzed with [more…]