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Is the committed crime a murder?
Is the committed crime a burglary?
Did Harland get injured in the dungeon?
Was he compensated for his wrongful imprisonment in terms of money?
Was there a crime committed at all?

Is Harland's profession of importance for the solution ?
Is Harland the forename?
Is Harland the surname?

Was Harland taken for somebody else ?
Does Harland have a lookalike?

Thanks Heltenjon for nudging this thread again.
And thanks Mandle for this new challenge !
Just to make it clear :

Is Harland still alive ?
Is/was Harland human ?

Jack Putter ,
Thanks so much for this elaborate explanation!
I can hardly believe how much work you put into this post alone!
You really have put up something special, I wish I had just a few
percent of your narrative talent.
One last question : How did you come to ALFRED Einstein instead of Albert?
I laughed out loudly, because Alfred is a rather rare german forename in these times.
And I still blush when I think of my near-perfect pentagram leading to Sheldonville :-)))))
So thank you once more for this great piece of entertainment!!!!!!!

JackPutter, this is/was fantastic !
I will come back tomorrow with a more detailed acknowledgment,
had a few swigs too many!
Thank you so much and cheers until tomorrow!!!
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JackPutter, I would like to thank you once again for this great and challenging entertainment.
Like your antecessor Mandle, you really put up something special here.
Your writing was so extraordinary, I could hardly wait for the next chapter to appear.
The riddles were really fair at all times (also for non-native speakers),
the puzzle with the audio file was simply ingenious !!!!
And the passage with the typewriter in McGee's house: Brilliant !
And the funny side-story with our whiskey drinking chief, I KNEW it would have this outcome :-))

The only thing I have to criticise: You raised the bar to such a high level that I can hardly imagine
how someone can come up with a case similar to the one you created here.

It would be nice if you wrote a few lines about how we could have done better (e.g. less injuries ,
I still think that the"jump of the quick brown fox" was related to not stepping on the bomb hidden under the
board in the staircase)
So thank so much you once again, I can imagine how much work you put into this.
And thanks for your patience ( especially with the final puzzle and our endless search for Schaalburg...)

Also, my thanks go to all officers here who contributed their skills to solve this case. It was a great pleasure having
you on my side !!!

I hope this wasn't the last CTI case, I would be happy to be on the team again for future challenges !

Thank you all and Cheers !
 

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WOW LAURA !!!!!!!
I never would have guessed LAX, since I don't know that this stands for L.A. Airport.
That is why I excluded the letter x immediately, since it is only found in the Industrial Complex, which we already searched.
Great Job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, Kastchey, I have the same feeling, but just don't get it.
"Beginning ist the End" tells me that there are 2 letters to be found per line,
making it a 10 letter location, providing that we are actually looking for a location.
I tried so many combinations, e.g. last letter of first word in the line plus first letter
of last word in the line, but to no avail. Maybe my approach is totally wrong or probably I didn't see it
(Remember Schaalburg, where it took days until Laura suddenly got it).
If it is only one letter per line than it would have to be KERRY.
I also divided each line into a left and a right portion, skipping the word in the middle, but could not see a thing.
(All lines have an odd number of words )

Oh you think you've spoiled my climax?

All good plans contain a failsafe so they will be successful!

Once I get out of here, I'll put a stop to the destruction of the master's work, believe it!

Kidnapping and murder are just the start, there is so much to take care of!

Just watch me!

Anyway, here are the 10 letter locations I found on the map, I don't think I missed one:

SCHAALBURG
WEEPY GROVE
LEITH ACRES
UNDERFIELD
ROCHESTOWN
ALDRIN WALK

Hope that someone is better at this than me ....

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Good to know, Laura !
I am hopelessly lost at this.
The only thing I could guess is that the chief would be drunk soon :-))
EDIT: I am still playing with the thought that she wants us to watch her somewhere.
(Just watch me at the BOTTOM of the transript and believe it two lines above)
I was sure we could find something through BeeLive, but we didn't.
However, there is also a streaming tool named be.Live , maybe she is trying to lead us to a streaming platform.
Any ideas ?

Heltenjon, looks like we are the last two fighters left.
I had a similar idea about Shudder Lake, especially when our Chief
arranged the last phonecall (fishing)line by (fishing)line.
However, I am absolutely clueless, I have a textdocument containing the transcript and
the wierdest possible combinations of letters following the beginning/end hint, but to no avail.

Don't you think that due to the fact that there are 5 lines and each line would give two letters,
the clue we are looking for should be made from 10 letters ?

There is a number of places on the map that consist of 10 letters, I just don't get it.

This is driving me nuts....
The only thing I notice is that each line has an odd number of words,
a coincidence ?
Maybe the clue is found in the passage between the words „start“ and „stop“,
I am giving up at this point....
Map for reference:

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Wow, Heltenjon !
I had already taken the champagne from the fridge when I saw
your theory. The „more“ from Sycamore could be found in the sentence
„There is so much to take care of“ , it could definitely contain a „more“
I was so sure of having found the clue, but now I am in serious doubt...
Let‘s see what Jac the Chief comes up with....

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destruction of the master's work, believe it! Kidnapping and murder are just the start, there is so much to take care of! Just watch me!

Just watch me on BEELIVE ?
Time to watch !
EDIT:
POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
We should find out if there is an upcoming event
related to Stephen King at BEELIVE
EDIT: And try to find a user named  ,,reyalsgnik,, there
(Though it's in Arabic, Thai and Chinese only ...)
EDIT: There's also a user named BeeLive on Facebook and Twitter
We should check there, too !!
( I don't have an account there )
EDIT: Forget about the german beekeeper dude on YouTube :-))

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My God, I feel so dumb :-(
If it's in the last phone call, the only thing I see is HOME,
made up from the first (OH) and the last (ME) word of the phone call.
But we did check her home after she made the phone call, so I don't expect anything there.....
EDIT: Maybe the beginning refers to the place she was born.
POTENTIAL SOLUTION
Can we search her parents home ?
EDIT : And if nothing is found there, we should search her home once again VERY thoroughly from the cellar to the attic.
It might be that PLANS is meant in an architectural sense, meaning that there is a hidden room in her house.

P.S.: How much whiskey can our chief take ?

[3 4 8 0 11 5 6]

Oooof,
my resources have been exhausted.............
Assuming that the papers we found DO include a hint in form of a phone number,
the only remaining numbers I could make up from  3 4 8 0 11 5 6 would be
555-6511
555-6520
555-6510
It should be no problem to find out if any of these belong to someone in the surroundings
On the other hand, we still may have overlooked a clue in the last phone call, but as I said,
I used up all my imagination......
But just to make sure: Could we please advise the tech team to check possible owners of the a.m. numbers?
REMEMBER: The big finale is still to come !

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Did we ever check whose phonenumber the 555-1408 is?
I don’t think we did
So I am pretty sure that she wants us to call 555-1408 again
EDIT: Why did we NEVER try to find out whom that number belongs to, or did we?
EDIT: POTENTIAL SOLUTION: Try to find out whose phone number that is

Me stupid !!
We DID try to trace the phonecall from the beginning, i completely overlooked it, sorry for the confusion !
Anyway, I am quite sure that she wants us to call that number again.
I see no other clue in the last call she made, so let's give it a try, so POTENTIAL SOLUTION
Let us call 555-1408

Sallynoggin Heights revealed nothing
Was sure it would be a hit....
( see previous page )

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Cassiebsg, I believe you are right with going back to the beginning of the case.
And it began with a phone number which might be hidden here as well.
When you look at the numbered paragraphs you notice that they have a different number of lines,
where 4 would represent a Zero.
That would make 3 4 8 0 11 5 6, doesn't look like a phone number to me, though,
because from how I understood it, it would have to start with 555 for the area
Pretty clueless at the moment, I don't see any pattern there
EDIT: Wait, the first 3 numbers make 15=3x5=555
Hmmm, i think Officer Heltenjon should have a look at this,
he elegantly solved the puzzle in the beginning , I would
still sit on that today
And IF it’s a phone number we should find out to whom it belongs and
NOT call it because it might trigger a bomb
EDIT: The number in the beginning was 555-1408, checksum 28
The checksum from the last message is also 28
Did we ever check whose phonenumber the 555-1408 is?
I don’t think we did
So I am pretty sure that she wants us to call 555-1408 again
EDIT: Why did we NEVER try to find out whom that number belongs to, or did we?
EDIT: POTENTIAL SOLUTION: Try to find out whose phone number that is

I don‘t have a savegame for this anymore, but this is what I remember:

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Did you look at the ladder in the shop to the left ?
And in the supermarket: Take a close look at the sandwiches,
their date of expiry has been exceeded, talk to the owner about it
It only works if you know what book the man outside is reading, I think

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