The crime scene that I chose to go to was very close to Colby. The location was along the road in front of Miller Library. As I ran through this road, I started nearing the end of campus near the president’s house. On both sides of the road ahead there were fields of ankle-length grass that extended several hundred meters followed by many tall pine trees. Further along the road the trees got closer to the road and eventually they were cut off by a thick but short metal fence that extended for a couple meters. Right in the middle of this fence there was a big opening where the fence would go into the forest. I had reached the crime scene.
Looking around I could see that the fence was concealing two metal boxes that I assumed were electricity generators.The first generator, which was closer to the road, was long and short while the second generator closer to the woods was tall and skinny. The ground where these generators stood was clearly man-made and it had a pattern of repeating squares. These squares had small crevices in between them where some dirt and overgrown grass had grown. As I approached the second generator I could see that to its left there was a staircase leading downwards towards a building underneath the generators. This building was made of old red bricks and it had some graffiti on it. However, it is clear that no one has been down that staircase in recent times because at the beginning of the staircase there was a spider web with its spider right in the center, eating a relatively smaller spider. If it had not been for this act of cannibalism by the spider I might have tried to go down the stairs and explore the building a bit more.
When I left the scene I was left wondering what the story behind this building was? Had it been a local hangout spot for teenagers as the graffiti seems to suggest? And if so, was there some occasion when these hangouts went too far to the point where there might have been a major crime committed such as a murder?
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It seems that the building had a sense of normalcy and regularity, but as you mention, the scene easily could have been the spot for a murder. The scene just sticks out like a sore thumb, when you see how overgrown and unmaintained it has come to be. It maakes you wonder what really could’ve happen here, if there nothing to indicate malicious intent.