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Murder
On Campus 1 Episode 4 written by Phillip |
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Disclaimer: The characters in the following fan fiction
do not belong to me. They belong to CBS and Viacom and other powers that be.
I am only using them for the purpose of writing this story. No money is being
made from this writing it is for entertainment purposes only. And now on with
the show... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doctor Mark Sloan, the
solver of a thousand murders is about to be confronted with his toughest case
yet as he and his team of experts, Dr. Amanda Bentley, Doctor Jesse Travis,
and Mark’s son Detective Steve Sloan are baffled with a murder on campus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER
1: INIVATATION Doctor Mark Sloan was
making his way down the corridors of Community General hospital after
completing his daily rounds. It had been a long 12-hour shift, with several
medical emergences, but it was all over now. Mark was tired and all he wanted
to do was to go home and have a nice long bath and sleep for the rest of the
afternoon, he thought he would pop into a drive through before he returned
home. Just then Mark heard his name being called through the intercom system,
"Doctor Sloan, there is a call for you on line one". Mark headed to
the nurses station and picked up the phone. "Hello, this is Doctor Mark
Sloan" the voice on the other line introduced himself as Doctor Ballston
from the Mark let out a large yawn
and then replied. "Well as it happens I have got some time off next
week, I would be happy to do it". "Splendid I’ll send you the
details through the post in a day or two" replied Doctor Ballston.
"Oh by the way is it ok if I bring some friends to assist" Doctor
Ballston replied that it would be fine, Mark said he would confirm his guests
at a later date, with that they said good bye and Mark hung up. He decided to
go and see if Amanda and Jesse were free next week, Mark continued to walk
down the corridor, he past a nurse on the way, he asked her if she knew where
Doctor Travis was, "I’m not sure, I think he’s in the Doctors
lounge", Mark thanked her and continued on his way. Mark entered the
Doctor lounge, sure enough Jesse was there, drinking what looked like the
tenth cup of coffee of the day, Jesse looked exhausted. "Working double
shifts again Jesse" Mark asked, Jesse said that he had been over doing
things a little. "Jesse I wanted to ask you if you were free next week,
you see I’ve been asked to present some lectures at the Jesse thought about it for
a minute, "Yeah I’ll come along, could use a change of pace, plus the
hospital owes me some time off after all the extra shifts I’ve been doing
lately". Mark was pleased that Jesse was going to tag along. "Well
I’m finished for the day, I’ll just see if Amanda will be able to join us and
then I’ll grab some lunch, take it easy Jess". With that Mark left the
lounge in search of Amanda. Amanda was in the pathology lab finishing an
autopsy on a man in his late 30’s. She is talking into her tape recorder, relaying
her findings. "I have found a high level of alcohol in his blood stream
which explains why the crash occurred. Both his legs were severed upon
impact, leading to a tremendous blood loss which caused death in
seconds". Just then Mark walked in. "How are we doing" Mark
asked, she replied that she was almost done. She was finishing up a case, the
dead man in front of her was involved in a car crash on the freeway involving
three other cars, and 8 people were injured, of which six died, he caused the
crash. Amanda was upset by this
recent tragedy, "Its so sad Mark, that all those life’s were lost, just
because of this mans addiction to drink, its disgusting Mark". Mark was
upset by it to, after all he had tried to save two of the victims himself,
but he lost them both on the operating table. "Its terrible Amanda, but
I didn’t come down here to talk about the case, I’ve been invited to do a
series of lecture next week at the Habsburg university, I was wondering if
you would like to join me, Jesse’s agreed to come. Amanda smiled, "I bet
he agreed quickly right" Mark nodded, Amanda gave a little laugh.
"He’s got a girlfriend down there, one of the teachers, I believe her
name is Lacy". "Well that explains it (he chucked) so can you make
it?" Mark asked. "I should do, I’ve got a lot of work to do but I
should have finished it by then" Amanda replied. Mark then left to let
Amanda to get on with her work, he continued down the white hospital
corridors, suddenly his stomach gave out a large rumble, which meant one
thing, it was lunch time. * * * Its was now midnight in
downtown L.A., Steve is walking his date Julie back to her apartment after an
amazing date, it had all gone so well, dinner at a top restaurant and then a
trip to the opera. It was Madame Butterfly, although he wasn’t really into
opera, it was Julie who absolutely loved it. Steve was bored stiff the whole,
but just being with Julie was worth it. He had been seeing her for two weeks
now and he hoped that tonight would be the night. Julie was a doctor at
Community General who he ran into while meeting his father to discuss a case.
He was completely taken with her from the start; she was tall, about 6 feet,
had brown hair and wore glasses, she also had a wonderful pair of… ear
lobes. She was also quite well endowed in the chest department as well; she
was also a very intelligent lady. They finally reached her
apartment building, they went inside and Steve escorted her to her door.
"Well here we are" Steve said, "It’s been a lovely evening Steve…(she
hesitated, not sure what to say next, all she knew was that she wanted him)
would you like to come in, for some coffee or something". Steve smiled
and replied that he would, she opened the door and they both entered. Steve
lent in to kiss her and as he did she put her arms around him, for a couple
of minutes they were locked in a passionate embrace. As they kissed they
moved towards the sofa and lay down with Julie on top. They were both getting
very turned on and in a fit of passion Steve cried out "oh Sarah",
as he did Julie broke their kiss and looked at him, "who’s Sarah? Who
the hell is Sarah (Steve gulped) are you seeing someone else behind my
back?" Steve looked as guilty as sin, but he responded with "no of
course not (lie) there’s no one else but you" (another lie). The truth
was that Steve had also been seeing another women, a cop, she was blonde, 30
year of age, about the same height, with a slightly bigger chest, but he hadn’t
quite decided between them, but now it seemed that the decision was no longer
his. Julie saw right through
the lie, she bolted up from the couch, readjusted her dress, Steve
desperately tried to calm her down, but instead she slapped him in the face,
she opened the front door and stormed out slamming it behind her. Steve just
stood there in the middle of the living room, wondering how it could have
gone so wrong. Just then Julie came back in, "why am I leaving, this is
my apartment you get out" Steve knew there was nothing he could do to
save the night, so he picked up his coat from the sofa and walked past Julie
as she held the door open, as soon as Steve was in the hallway Julie slammed
the door shut so loud that it sounded like the door would come off its
hinges. Steve put on his coat and headed for home, alone. CHAPTER
2: ARRIVAL One week later: Jesse and Amanda pull up
outside Mark’s beach house in Jesse’s new blue convertible with the roof up.
It is the first day of the lectures and Jesse and Amanda are tagging along,
Amanda to give Mark moral support, whereas Jesse is going to spend some time
with his new girlfriend. Jesse and Amanda get out of the car and go to the
front door of the beach house. Mark appears and lets them in, greeting them
with open arms. "Glad you could make it, all packed? As they will be
staying on site to save going back and forth everyday. They all relief Mark
by saying they are ready. Mark tells them to wait there while he goes and
gets his bags. He quickly returns and they all leave the house and drive away
heading for down town Marks seems to be slightly
distressed as he sits in the back seat of the car with the air rapidly
flowing past him, messing up his hair as they drive along. He continually
looks at the speedometer. Amanda looks back and Mark’s expression tells her
that he is worried, she comforts him and he begins to relax. Then suddenly it
dawns on him that he forgot to lock the front door as he left so quickly. He
tells Jesse and Amanda, who look very annoyed at the news, "Mark we’ll
never get there at this rate if we have to continue to turn round",
exclaimed Amanda, Mark apologies as they turn round once more. An hour later they arrive
at the University, only a couple of minutes later than expected, despite
continued interruptions and parked in the University car park. They all
emerge from the car and made there way towards the main building to check in,
when they are greeted by the head of Cardiology, outside the main building,
he has been looking out for their arrival. He is in his mid thirties and
wears classes, dressed in a very smart suit, well built and just under six
feet tall, he gives the impression of being a very respectable person. He extends his hand
towards Mark, "Doctor Sloan, (turning to the others) and you must be
Doctor Bentley, and Doctor Travis, welcome to the University, so glad you
could make it, I hope you had a pleasant journey?" The gang nodded in
agreement, he continued, "I’m Doctor Peter Ballston, head of cardiology;
we spoke on the phone Doctor Sloan. It is a great honour to finally meet you;
I’ve been a keen student of your work for many years, not to mention of your
involvement in helping the They continued to walk
from the main building to the lecture theatre, a very big building that is
used for lectures and meetings that can easily fit 500 people. It is a grand
old building, like the rest of Campus; the whole campus used to be a
Protestant school before it was converted into a university 50 years ago,
aside from some new buildings most of the old layout remains. Doctor Ballston
gives them a brief tour as they go to the lecture, "on the left we have
the language block and over here we have the University chapel. Although with
the decline of religion, especially in our young people its unfortunately
becoming obsolete, but we still have services occasionally". It’s a
beautiful building" commented Mark. "Later after the lecture
perhaps you would like to have a look inside" said Ballston, "yes
that would be very nice," said Mark. They finally reach the lecture
theatre building. "Here we are Doctor
Sloan, we’ve just had the facilities in here upgraded". They enter the
building and Doctor Sloan and his team are very impressed with it, the shear
size and the equipment in the theatre is impressive. Fully equipped with
plasma television monitors, automatic blinds to cover the window during
presentations, overhead protectors and pointer lasers and every other
imaginable technological aid to improve presentations and talks. Mark and
Doctor Ballston go to the front of the theatre and prepare for the lecture,
Mark pulls out his notes from his brief case and places them on the podium in
front of him, and then Peter went through the controls of the theatre. Mark
began to look worried as he glanced at the complicated control panel before
him, but he put on a brave face. It was now approaching 11
O’ clock and Mark is calmly waiting for the students to arrive, Amanda and
Jesse have already taken their seats near the front of theatre. They mouth
Mark good luck as the first wave of students enter the Theatre. The Theatre
hall fills up with students, probably about 300 hundred in total. Dr.
Ballston goes up to the podium and introduces Mark. Meanwhile Jesse spots
Lacy sitting a couple of rows in front of him and to his right. He gives
Amanda a nudge and points her out, Amanda looks at Jesse as if to approve of
her, Lacy is a very attractive woman, 5’11, flowing blonde hair, with a slim
and in shape figure. As Jesse was pointing her out Lacy caught Jesse’s eye
and gave him a smile, it was the sweetest perfect smile that Jesse ever saw,
and at that moment his feelings were confirmed, he knew she was very special.
Dr. Ballston finished his opening remarks and Mark approached the podium.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I’m Dr. Mark Sloan from Community
General Hospital, today I’m going to talk about the fascinating world of
Cardiology, but first of all I would like to start with any questions you may
have on any aspects of the field. If you were thinking about specialising in
this area then this would be a great opportunity for you to find out more.
Does anyone have any questions? To Marks horror almost every student puts up
there hand simultaneously. Mark is bewildered by this, wondering where to
start, he simply smiles and then puts his best foot forward, "right we’ll
start with you sir in the second row in the blue shirt, what’s your question?” CHAPTER
3: DISCOVERY The lecture went without
any mishaps, well without any serious mishaps. During the lecture everything
was going perfectly until Mark wanted to use the over head projector. Instead
of activating the projector he accidentally hit the button that raised the
blinds on the windows Mark quickly realised his mistake and quickly lowered
them again, receiving only a few giggles from the audience. Then trying to
find the right button he mistakenly turned off the lights in the theatre, but
quickly turned them on again. Mark was then saved with the help of Dr.
Ballston who had got out of his chair to come to Marks rescue. No other
mishaps occurred and the lecture ended promptly at As the students left Jesse
and Amanda went up to Mark and congratulated him as did Dr. Ballston who
apologised for the students leaving so abruptly. Mark accepts his apology and
they all begin to leave about five minutes after the students. "You
really do have very good facilities here Dr. Ballston" commented Mark.
They exit the building and start to head towards the lunch hall. "Thank
you Dr. Sloan, as you probably noticed we are having renovations done all
over the campus, new laboratories and new equipment is being put in. These
advancements should make us one of the best Medical universities in the
country, in facility terms". They continue to walk to
the lunch hall when they turn a corner and discover a man lying face down on
the ground. Mark, Jesse and Amanda run to him. They turn him over gently, Dr.
Ballston’s face goes completely white as recognises the man, "oh my god,
that’s Arthur Simms, the University chaplain". Mark feels for a pulse,
everyone looks at him as he does so, he then slowly looks up to everyone and
shakes his head, there is no pulse he’s dead, everyone especially Dr.
Ballston is effected by this. Then Mark notices something as he examines him,
"look his necks been broken, and look his cloths have been ruffled up,
looks like a fight occurred, he’s been murdered". Everyone looks
confused, "but who would want to murder a Chaplain?" inquired
Jesse. "Well who ever it was he could still be around, Jesse, Amanda
have a look around". They comply but they can’t see any one. Meanwhile
Mark calls the police and an ambulance. Jesse and Amanda run back to Mark,
"we didn’t see anything," said Amanda, Mark began to look even more
worried. " We’ve got a killer on the loose" he exclaimed. CHAPTER
4: THE BRIEFING Within half an hour the
LAPD and medical personal were at the scene of the crime. Steve, Mark’s son
was in charge of the investigation, his men were busy dusting for prints and
searching the scene of the crime for any evidence that could give them the
slightest clue to the murderers identify. Whereas the medical staff were
making preparations to move the body to begin the possibly very important autopsy
which could lead to the identify of the killer. Everyone was looking very
busy, the university students and teachers were already gathered around the
crime area in hope of understanding what happened to a man they all respected
and looked up to. Mark was giving his statement to a police detective,
"that’s all I can tell you I’m afraid, I hope that will be of some help
to you at least". The detective thanked Mark for his time and left to
interview Jesse and Amanda. Mark walked to Steve who seemed unsettled. Mark told Steve what he
had just told the detective. "That’s not much to go on dad, but we can
narrow down the time when the murder took place", Mark nodded and
continued talking. "We were in the building at about "I’m going to head
over to the main building and talk to the staff, try and shed some light on
this situation" Mark announced as he left his son and accompanied Dr.
Ballston to the main building. Mark gathered everyone in the staff common
room and began to relate the day’s happenings. Everyone responded with total
shock "I can give you the assurance that everything is being done to
identify the killer, but I do suggest that the university is closed down
until this is resolved" said Mark. The administrator was very obliging
and took his advice, however the university could not be completely cleared
due to many of the students having to take their final exams and other tests.
He agreed to relocate some but it was simply not possible to relocate them
all. As a result all the students who had to stay were asked to limit their
movements on the campus. There was also another problem; a lot of the
students lived on campus. "Don’t worry" Mark comforted the
administrator "security will be increased day and night on site".
Although this was said to inspire comfort, it inspired little in Mark. Mark
left the meeting knowing that any good killer could get past the heaviest
security, especially if his greatest fear was true, that the killer was a
member of staff. But what was the chances of the killer striking again, the
killer would probably try and establish a low profile and attempt to cover
his tracks so he wouldn’t be discovered, Mark just hoped that killer didn’t
have another agenda. CHAPTER
FIVE: SETTING UP CAMP Mark, Amanda and Jesse,
despite the current events decided to stay in the university accommodation,
using it as a base for the investigation, in a case where the lives of
teenagers were at stake they felt they couldn’t simply leave them out in the
cold. They were shown to the student accommodation as the day drew to a close
and were introduced to the housemaster Mr. Bixby, he had an imposing
presence, Mark guessed that he was about 6 feet 2. He also had a deep
authoritarian voice and spoke in a strange accent, they couldn’t quite place
it, it wasn’t English, not German, perhaps he was from a small state Mark
thought. Mr. Bixby was well built and had a thinning beard; he must have been
in his early 50’s. Amanda thought he was quite attractive at first, but the
accent was a turn off. Mr. Bixby said that he would try and make them as
comfortable as possible. The accommodation was quite bland, with dull grey
walls; the entire place lacked any home like qualities. It reminded Mark of
his Amanda had to leave Mark
and Jesse later that after "It certainly gives
us some thing to go on, what’s Jesse up to? Mark inquired. "He’s been
working on the whereabouts of the staff and students, but he just went out on
his hot date with Lacy" Amanda said. "Well I suppose he needs the
rest, he’s been working a lot of double shifts lately" Mark added.
"You saw Lacy right Mark? With someone as good looking as that, I think
the last thing Jesse is going to do is rest!" With a grin Amanda left
and Mark continued to get ready for bed amused at Amanda’s comment. Half way
through the night Mark awoke, not being able to sleep due to the case playing
over and over in his mind, as they often did. Half his passion for solving
murders was usually so he could get a goodnights sleep, as he was someone who
couldn’t easily let things go. He got up and was about to go to the toilet
when he realised there was no toilet paper, Mark left his room to go in
search for some. After a couple of minutes scrambling around in the dark of
the ground floor of the boarding house he was finally successful. He quickly
headed back towards his room. Just when he was about to
go up the stairs he was greeted by Mr. Bixby. "Ah Doctor Sloan, settling
in all right are we," he asked. Mark stopped his advance and answered
Bixby. "Yes fine thank you, just going off to bed now" Mark
replied. "Then I won’t keep you a second longer Dr. Sloan, good
night" and with that he headed for his study and Mark for his room. But
just then Mark looked at Mr. Bixby as he left, to find that he was limping
away into his room. "Hurt your leg Mr. Bixby?" Mark called out.
"Yes I knocked it a couple of days ago when I took a few students hill
walking during a field trip" Mr. Bixby replied. "Anything I can
help you with" Mark asked. Bixby showed him the injury, which Mark examined
for a few seconds, the leg was quite bruised. "Well its not too bad, I
suggest you put some ice on it, try and keep off the leg for a few days and
it should be fine" Mark advised. As Mark left Bixby it
suddenly dawned on him, he flashed his mind back creating a recreation of
murder, a technique which he found invaluable. He saw the struggle inch by
inch, second per second, the attacker delivering another blow, causing Simms
to crash against the wall, dislodging a section, landing on the murderer, who’s
face had been blank for so many days, but no longer, the man he saw now was
Mr. Bixby. That was no walking injury, Mark headed up to his room with a look
of triumph on his face. He stopped off at Amanda’s room to tell her the good
news. " Amanda, I’ve got a lead, I think I know who committed the
murder" Mark beamed with pride as he made the revelation. Amanda who was
barley awake could only mumble "that’s great Mark, tell me in the
morning, when you’ve caught him, good night" and with that Amanda showed
Mark to the door and then collapsed on her bed. Mark returned to his room a
bit disappointed that his break through went unpraised. But it had been a
long day for all of them, and he couldn’t blame Amanda. He returned to his
room, remembered he had to go to the toilet and then retired for the night,
sleeping like a log knowing that everything was beginning to come together. CHAPTER
6: LOOSE THREADS The next morning Jesse
woke up with the sunlight on his face shinning through the open curtains, he
looked over to find Lacy lying next to him. Jesse had to pinch himself to see
if he was dreaming, it all seemed like a dream, everything was perfect, just
like in a dream. Just like last night when he and Lacy had gone to a romantic
restaurant, where they ate and talked to the late hours of the night. After
which they went back to her flat where they made love all night long. He
couldn’t believe that he was with this beautiful, prefect women. Jesse was
the first thing she saw when she woke up, he just stared at her, with a look
of contentment, and she just stared back. They then held each other for a
while before falling back to sleep in each other’s arms. Meanwhile Mark, Amanda and
Steve were assembled in the university I.T. centre studying the CTV footage
in an attempt to find some clue to the killers identify. It turned about
there was a lot of footage from the murder day as the campus had over 100
cameras operating at any one time. However what was unbelievable was that the
area where the murder took place was not covered by the cameras. "You
mean to tell me that there’s no footage from the scene of the crime?"
Steve exclaimed. The I.T. technician looked at Steve like a little schoolboy
who was about to be told off. "There is a camera there but we don’t have
the funding to have film in each one, about a third of the cameras are empty
around the campus, but we change them around every month". The
technician replied. "The positions of the ‘live’ camera are kept on
file" he added. "Well it at least proves that this was done by an
insider, how else could he know which cameras were working" Mark
deduced. However Steve pointed out the possibility that he could have simply
got lucky. "Let’s scan the footage of the other cameras for any sign of
abnormal behaviour, near the murder scene or on the campus at the time of the
murder" Amanda suggested. "That could take weeks, looking at
everyone who went by in every detail, by then the killer could of disposed of
the any evidence or even worse, committed another murder" Steve added.
Mark gestured the technician to leave the room so the gang could begin
examining the footage. "I think I can narrow it down a bit for us, I
noticed yesterday that Mr. Bixby the dormitory master was limping. I examined
his injury, which suggested to me that a heavy object fell on him, it would
explain the presence of the piece of stone from the wall at the scene of the
crime, I think he killed Simms". Everyone looked at Mark with a look of
uncertainty. "I know it’s a little week but that’s all we’ve got. Let’s
find Bixby on the tapes and lets see what we can see" added Mark. They scanned through the
tapes for what seemed like hours until Bixby appeared on the screen, he was
walking from class to class popping in and out of various buildings. An hour
later Bixby reappears, but still nothing occurs out of the ordinary, and then
Mark spots something. "There it is, pause the footage and zoom in on
that section" Mark pointed to the screen. Everyone looked puzzled as Bixby
was only walking around the buildings in the shot. "Look at what he’s
wearing" Mark continued. He was wearing a brown suit and jacket.
"Amanda you said you found a brown piece of fabric on Simms, there’s
where it came from" Mark pointed to Bixby’s jacket, it looked like it
was of the same texture and shade as the brown fabric found on the body. They
continued to scan the footage for any more information. They found that
before the murder took place Bixby was wearing his brown jacket but after the
murder the jacket was inexplicably gone and he was only wearing his shirt and
tie. "It’s got to be him," Steve said triumphantly. However they
still needed concrete evidence, they needed the brown jacket and of course
the biggest piece of the puzzle, the motive behind this terrible crime. Just
then Jesse came running through the door, "sorry I’m late" he
exclaimed, "did I miss anything? He asked. "You could say
that" replied Steve". CHAPTER
7: DIVERSION That evening Amanda, Jesse
and Mark returned to the boarding house in order to find evidence that Bixby
was the murderer, to do that Mark planed to break into Bixby’s office and
living quarters. "Ok remember Jesse, Amanda keep him occupied for as
long as possible, I should be back in 10 minutes". With that they parted
and Mark headed down to Bixby’s office, Bixby was upstairs helping students
with there work. Mark picked the lock of his office and slowly entered and
took out his torch keeping the lights off. The first place he went to was
Bixby’s bedroom, which was accessible through his office. Mark couldn’t find
his jacket anywhere so Mark went back to the office and began searching the
desk. Meanwhile Jesse who was positioned at the top of the stairs saw Bixby
coming his way. Jesse intercepted him and thanked him for letting them stay,
giving Bixby a few false facts about how the investigation was going. Back in
the office Mark had found some interesting folders, he turned on the desk
light and examined them further, and he then took out a miniature camera and
photographed them. Jesse couldn’t hold Bixby
any longer and Bixby continued down the stairs towards Amanda where he
greeted her with smiles, they began to talk, Amanda talked quite loudly so
Mark could here them. Mark quickly finished photographing the documents and
then left by the office window carefully putting everything back into place.
Mark then entered the building from the main door to see Amanda and Bixby
parting with Bixby entering his office. After he went inside Mark and Amanda
headed upstairs to their rooms, "That was close," exclaims Mark.
"Too close, I’ve now got a date tomorrow" replied Amanda. They both
walk up to their rooms attempting to contain their laughter. The team after a
few minutes gathered into Mark’s room. "Well what did you find
Mark" Jesse asked. "I couldn’t find the jacket but I did find some
interesting documents which I photographed, I’ll get them developed in the
morning and run them past Steve, hopefully this should shed some light on the
situation". "I don’t think Steve’s going to be too happy when he
finds out what we did tonight," added Amanda. "I know but there was
no other way, but if we had been caught the investigation would have been
jeopardised. But now hopefully with these documents we’ll kick start
it". They all then retired to their rooms and went to bed, knowing that
tomorrow would be a busy day. CHAPTER
8: DISCOVERY #2 &3 The next morning Mark woke
up to some terrible news via a phone call from Steve who was on the
University Campus. "Dad you better come quick, we’ve found one of the
students lying face up in the university swimming pool this morning, he’s
been murdered" Steve exclaimed. Mark quickly dressed and alerted the
others to meet him by the poo1. It was revealed that the student’s name was
Paul Clark, a first year medical student; he was only 19 years old.
"This has got to be related to the Simms murder" Jesse said,
"but how, why would someone kill a kid". Mark considered the
possibilities and came to the conclusion that he must have witnessed the
murder of the chaplain and as a result Bixby killed him to protect himself,
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