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Case File · Forensic · No. 017
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The Alderton Mill Fire
≈ 6 min
Shortly before dawn on a Tuesday in August 1923, the Alderton Mill was discovered ablaze. The mill owner, Mr. Edmund Pryce, was found dead inside. His business partner, Thomas Kell, claims he spent the evening at the village pub and knew nothing until the fire brigade arrived. Your task is to reconstruct the exact sequence of six key events that evening — from Kell's movements to the discovery of the body — using only the physical evidence and forensic findings recorded at the scene.
The scene
A rural flour mill and the surrounding farmland, England, 1923
The events
- Farm labourer Dan Marsh spots the blaze and raises the alarm
- Kell confronts Pryce at the mill office
- Fire brigade recovers Pryce's body from the grain store
- Kell leaves the Alderton Arms public house
- The mill is deliberately set alight
- Pryce's body is dragged to the grain store
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