With the weekend looming over me and homework piling up, having been too scared to venture outward, I chose to trudge along Mayflower Hill Drive to investigate my crime scene. With my coordinates in hand and music blasting my ears, I ventured off to my destination.
As I strolled past Miller Lawn, I noticed the cool breeze starting to fall as the sun set and the lack of noise of college kids bustling toward their next destination. Miller Lawn only occupied a few stragglers enjoying their day, different from its average day. Walking further up to the crime scene, I heard the cars rushing past me off to new places and the heavy breathing of the jogger couple passing me up. Everything seemed to be building up to be weird as I passed by a man running on a tightrope between two trees next to the Woodman Dorm. (Unfortunately, I could not get a picture of this random activity I stumbled upon. However, do know that he was exceptionally good at balancing.) This trip of mine was starting to become a bit more unusual than what I had become accustomed to at Colby, which excited me. Maybe this was the universal way of preparing me for the crime scene.
Arriving at the crime scene, I was shocked to find nothing out of the ordinary. During my journey here, I tried to find things out of place, like the few kids on campus, the breeze (which was enjoyable after a week of 90-degree weather), and the tightrope walking man. Yet, all there was a beautiful clearing with overgrown grass and a generator.
The only mysterious thing in sight was a stairway down to the clearing. (Which I avoided due to my knowledge of horror movies, nothing good ever happens in mysterious places.)
I thought there would be telltale signs of a crime, maybe I had been channeling my inner Sherlock too hard, but it just seemed like a clearing where someone might check up on the generator every so often. I began to wonder what crime scene I could’ve wandered onto. If it had been a murder, wouldn’t there be blood? Or wouldn’t there be tape, since it was right next to the road? Maybe it was something minimal like vandalism on the generator. On my way back to my dorm, all I could think was what could’ve been?
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It seems like your walk to the crime scene was more usual than the crime scene itself. I think that if there had been a crime such as murder committed here things such as tape or maybe even blood would not be visible. I think that whatever crime was committed here was definitely a long time ago. Therefore things such as tape would have been replaced with fences if the intent was for people not to go near the crime scene. This leads me to believe that like you said the crime committed might be minimal such as vandalism.