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Case File · Profile · No. 051

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Faded Glory at the Summit Station

6 min

The Crestfall Alpine Rose Society holds its annual judging weekend each September at the Crestfall Funicular Hotel, whose terraced gardens contain several competing rose beds. On the morning of judging day, the head gardener discovered that the bed entered by competitor Margit Solano — widely tipped to win the prize — had been destroyed overnight. The bed showed signs of chemical treatment rather than physical uprooting. Investigators are asked to profile the behaviour of whoever did this, not to identify them by name.

The scene

Crestfall Funicular Hotel, a hillside retreat at 1,640 m elevation served by a private funicular railway

In the file

  • Petra Haas, hotel night porter
  • Dorothea Vink, competing rose grower, room 14
  • Rolf Stanger, Crestfall Hotel head gardener
  • Susanne Brandt, competing rose grower, room 9
  • Connie Albrecht, hotel kitchen supervisor

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This case first aired on September 8, 2026. A fresh profile runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.