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The Shadow on Bramble Street
M Mehran The night Mrs. Ellery disappeared, Bramble Street held its breath. Detective Rowan Pierce arrived at the scene just past 11 p.m., greeted by the glow of porch lights and neighbors gathered like moths. The Ellery house—small, yellow, immaculate—looked painfully ordinary for the horrors whispered about it.
By Muhammad Mehran2 months ago in Criminal
The Girl in Apartment 4B
M Mehran The first thing Officer Lena Hale noticed about Apartment 4B was the silence. Not the normal kind—the heavy, suffocating kind that felt staged. Manufactured.
By Muhammad Mehran2 months ago in Criminal
The Last Witness
M Mehran Rain fell in needles the night Detective Mara Vance realized she was being followed. She’d left the precinct after midnight, the kind of exhausted where the world felt underwater. The Rosen Case—a convenience-store robbery gone brutal—had dragged the department for weeks. A clerk dead, a missing witness, and a blurry security tape that showed a man with a serpent tattoo along his wrist. That was it. No face. No prints. No breaks.
By Muhammad Mehran2 months ago in Criminal
The Teen Killers Who Shocked the World
They were not hardened criminals, with no long-standing criminal history. They were just teenagers-kids who should have been thinking about school, friendships, and the future. Yet, behind innocent faces, they carried secrets so dark that the world still struggles to understand them.
By iftikhar Ahmad2 months ago in Criminal
The Stranger Who Knew My Name: The Night That Changed Everything. AI-Generated.
I wasn’t supposed to take that route home. It was late, colder than usual, and the streetlights flickered like they were trying to warn me. I remember checking the time—11:43 p.m.—and thinking I’d be home in ten minutes.
By Ali2 months ago in Criminal
The Rock is Silent: The Impossible Escape of Alcatraz and the $1 Million Question That Haunts the Bay
The Rock is Silent: The Impossible Escape of Alcatraz and the $1 Million Question That Haunts the Bay For nearly 30 years, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary stood as the absolute pinnacle of American incarceration. Located on a desolate, rocky island a mile and a half off the coast of San Francisco, it was famously known as "The Rock"—a prison from which no one, it was said, could ever escape alive. The freezing, shark-infested currents of the San Francisco Bay were its true, unyielding walls.
By Amanullah2 months ago in Criminal
The Girl in the Green Hoodie
M Mehran The storm hit Silverbridge just after midnight—sheets of rain hammering pavement, lightning flashing over the empty streets like camera shutters capturing crimes no one had yet committed. Detective Jalen Cross preferred nights like this. Bad weather made criminals sloppy.
By Muhammad Mehran2 months ago in Criminal
The Last Confession
M Mehran Detective Mara Vance had learned two unshakable truths in her twenty years with the Harbor City Police Department: people lie, and guilt never sleeps. Tonight, both truths pressed heavily on her shoulders as she stepped into Cell 12 of the precinct’s lower wing.
By Muhammad Mehran2 months ago in Criminal
REVIEW BOOK "THE BLACK MAGICIAN AND THE MURDER IN THE NAMELESS TOWN – DEATH IN THE HEART OF THE PANDEMIC"
The Corona pandemic broke out, causing the whole world to be devastated. And Japan was no exception to the negative impact of the pandemic. Every company, large and small, from urban to rural areas, had to struggle to fight the pandemic, the economy and society were devastated. In that context, in the unnamed town, a large project had just been canceled due to the impact of the pandemic, not long after that a strange murder occurred. The police intervened, but the “black magician”, as the victim’s personal identity, with doubts about the police’s ability and speed in solving the case, decided to clarify everything himself.
By HieuDinh2 months ago in Criminal
The Criminal Nobody Suspected
M Mehran The first report said it was an accident. A kitchen fire. Nothing unusual—old houses do that sometimes. But by the time the fourth house burned in the same neighborhood, the town of Briar Creek stopped calling it coincidence.
By Muhammad Mehran3 months ago in Criminal
The Criminal Who Turned Himself In
M Mehran The night I walked into the police station, the officer at the front desk didn’t even look up. He was stirring sugar into his coffee like it was the most important thing happening in the world.
By Muhammad Mehran3 months ago in Criminal
What the Witness Never Said
They say every crime has a witness. But no one talks about the witness who stays silent. The night it happened, the street was too quiet—one of those cold evenings when even the wind refuses to move. I was walking home from my late shift, keys between my fingers, heartbeat steady, mind blank. It was supposed to be an ordinary night. It almost was.
By LUNA EDITH3 months ago in Criminal