When I first heard the assignment from Professor Millard that we had to visit and take a picture of a crime scene, I didn’t know what to expect. For me, hearing a crime scene makes me think of the Batman movies where Bruce Wayne and his family walk into a dark alley late at night full of trash and shadows and then get killed in a dinghy and crime filled city. What I wasn’t expecting was for it to be maybe a quarter mile away from the college campus I am living at.
When I first approached this spot, it seemed like any other spot just off of the road where some generators would be. It was only a couple feet off of the road and hardly looked like somewhere where something terrible could happen. It didn’t even look like a place where anyone would even walk past. It was just an open piece of land with some concrete barriers and generators. Looking further though revealed a staircase behind the generators that led down into the woods and to a locked door, walls and door covered in graffiti. The graffiti spelled out “CHOKE” and “RIP TRUST” creepily enough. This more fit my general expectations of what a crime scene would look like. This secluded area where it would be impossible to see anything, especially at night.
This area is so secluded that it begs one major question, why would anyone be there in the first place? Behind the staircase there was nothing, just a very thickly wooded forest, along with some rocky and uneven ground that I could barely even stand on to take the picture. Other than that there is just a locked door that likely just leads to something with the generators for maintenance. If this back area is where some crime happened, what would have led someone to be there? Also, what did those cryptic and creepy graffiti messages mean? Did they connect to the crime or were they just conveniently creepy set dressing? I guess we will see…
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