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Case File · Detective · No. 033
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The Signal Got It First
≈ 6 min
Press night at the Millbrook Courier, and the front page belongs to Elena Vasquez's six-week investigation into inflated repair costs on the Harborline bridge contract. At 11:05 PM, forty minutes before the presses were due to roll, the rival blog Rivertown Signal published the story's key findings — including two sentences quoted word for word. The draft never left the building. Someone inside handed it over.
Subject
Elena Vasquez
Senior investigative reporter. Spent six weeks pulling records on the Harborline bridge contract; her exclusive was spoiled before a single copy hit the street.
The suspects
- Desmond Rourke — Copy Chief
- Talia Nguyen — Junior City Reporter
- Marcus Bell — Night Photo Editor
- Sondra Kite — Advertising Manager
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