Daily Casefile · Profile
Read the file. Read the offender.
Not whodunnit — what kind of person. Read the scene, the victim, the statements, and the evidence, then profile the offender across a few controlled axes: organised or not, alone or not, a stranger or someone who’d been let in. Behavioural inference, fair-play: every axis follows from the file.
Profile #001 · The Emptied Cabinet
A quiet cul-de-sac, Thursday afternoon
While Arthur Vane was at his standing Thursday optician's appointment, someone entered his home and cleared the locked cabinet in his study of its rare-coin collection. Nothing else was taken. The police have no suspect in hand and want a behavioural read before they narrow the field. Your job is not to name the offender — it's to profile them: read the scene, the victim, the statements, and the evidence, and settle each axis of the profile from what the offender did and did not do.