SEASON 1: EPISODE 5
Investigator's log, December 18th, 2025. Case File #0005.
IT MOVED THROUGH THE WIRES, AND IT LET HER LIVE.
Archive Item 76 documents the destruction of St. Cleer Police Station in February 1983.
The official report concluded that the fire resulted in total loss of life.
That conclusion is incorrect.
One individual survived the initial ignition event: the station stenographer, Judith Hallowell. She exited Interview Room 1 moments before the fire escalated and consumed the building. While under medical observation and temporary custody, she dictated a witness statement describing a heat phenomenon that originated inside human bodies and propagated outward with deliberate selectivity.
Three days after her release, Mrs Hallowell was found deceased in her flat. Her body exhibited extensive internal burn trauma consistent with the injuries sustained by the station victims. The flat itself showed no evidence of fire, heat bloom, or ignition.
Her dictated statement, alongside a fifteen-second audio fragment recovered from the fused remains of the interview tape, constitutes the entirety of this Archive Item.
End of entry.
The Investigator