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I bet it turns out to be pig blood.
That would lead to Carrie/Kerry

Would it be helpful to know WHERE the audition took place ?
EDIT: And who the auditors were ?

Maybe a name of a woman who killed a king
I‘m bad at history .....

Why not queen ?

I'm getting desperate...
Just an idea: Rachel Edison was held by her tormentor for about a week.
I don't know how rural the area is, but from what our chief told us at an early stage
i understand that it is rather sparsely populated. We might ask in local foodstores if anything unusual has
been observed, e.g. someone suddenly buying more food supplies than they usually do.

I still have the suspicion that our perp or however we might call him/her has captured someone.
I have the movie "Misery" in my head, just a feeling ......

I have a german keyboard layout thus making it impossible for me.
Instead, I used an anagram decoder using the green and / or brown letters
in the note.
The result was rather frustrating, i set a limit of 500 words and i got 500.
for both the brown and the green letters.
Maybe someone can do it better than me....
Here's what i used for the search (I hope i didn't miss out any letters)
Green:
tiidgaosaufreeththaowhh                 
Brown:
ibenoopsirous   

Pretty hopeless, just too many results....
P.S.: I don't consider this cheating, after all our chief encouraged us to use keyboard and mouse :-)

[TASTE]

The chief adopts a comforting tone for once, which has the uncanny effect of being even MORE unsettling than when he is screaming. "I'm very proud of all of your work so far. You've been scouring the internet up, down, and backwards. It hasn't paid off yet, but I can TASTE how close we must be.

There must be something behind the TASTE , I just don't get it

I tried Stephanie Queen in all ROT-X decoders, yet to no avail :-)))

I got a feeling that there's something hidden in the green letters
of the last message, maybe a username

[POTENTIAL SOLUTION]

Ok, we have come to a point where we have a LOT of information already, maybe too much
to get a picture of what to do next. Just to remind us of what our target ist, here's the quote from JackPutter
concerning the game's rules:

There are a couple of important details that are specific to this case, which I will go through now.

Firstly, this criminal has many crimes lined up, but a big finale planned. To stop the finale, you need to do one of two things. You either need to figure out who the final target is and get them into protective custody, or you can track the criminal to their home town and arrest them. However, if you arrest the criminal without identifying who the final target is, the criminal may have had time to put their final plan in motion and you won't be able to save the target. On the other hand, if you manage to get the target to safety without identifying where the criminal is, then they might be able to escape.

We have two notes/letters from the prep, the first note written with a lot of typos, the second one not containing any typo at all.
Maybe the prep has a "Split Personality", that would justify a request at the eligible hospitals or to search the police records.Or there are two persons involved.
The last three lines of the recent letter point to at least one location, to me Torrent (Audio puzzle) leads to Torrent Crescent.
So instead of waiting for something to happen, we should seize the initiative and search (POTENTIAL SOLUTION)
Torrent's Crescent. Of course, we must be EXTREMELY careful. As Officer Cassiebsg pointed out, the prep's primary intention might be to hurt the police and used the former victims as decoys. I cannot make a better suggestion at the moment, but we have to do something. What do you think?
EDIT:
Could we also send a request at the eligible hospitals or to search the police records for persons with a "Split Personality".
Maybe something can be found here.....

I have a slight suspicion that the prep is trying to lure us to Torrent`s Crescent.
There are a number of birds showing a crescent marking ( a bird that chirps )
and Torrent could have something to do with Torrent Audio and torrent rain
(The audio that causes rain ).
Don't know about the somersaults. though
EDIT: Found something in the web about "Tweener Somersault"
There's Tweener's Way on the map, Maybe between Tweener's Way and
Torrent's Crescent ?
@Heltenjon: Which Stephen King film was the last crime related to ?

KS. The S could stand for slave or servant , the Master was mentioned in the last message

The TEATIME is a great alternative in case
nothing is found in Weepy grove.
You have good eyes, Mandle !!

[POTENTIAL SOLUTION]

Yes, I agree, it must me Weepy Grove.
Officer Helten Jon, would you make it a potential solution,
it seems that a have a bad hand for that :-(
EDIT: Chief, could we get a tracking dog? KS must have left
some traces on the axe. We should (POTENTIAL SOLUTION)
send a unit to Weepy Grove, i leave it up to you to decide who
the most suitable persons are for this job :-)

OK, here it comes:
UIFNBTUFSTXPSL
NVTUOPUCFUPVDI
FEIFJTUIFNBTUFS
BOEJQSPUFDUIJN
JXJMMTQBSFIJNUI
FUFBSTIFTIBMMOP
UGFFMUIFTPSSPX

THEMASTERSWORK
MUSTNOTBETOUCH
EDHEISTHEMASTER
ANDIPROTECTHIM
IWILLSPAREHIMTH
ETEARSHESHALLNO
TFEELTHESORROW

Must think about that ....

That is brilliant, Officer Laura Hunt.

I got this, if I did it correctly:
UIFNBTUFSTXPSL
NVTUOPUCFUPVDI
FEIFJTUIJNBTUFS
BOEQSPUFDUIJNX
JMMTQBSDIJNUIF
UFBSTIFTIBMMOP
SGFFMUIFTPSSPX

THEMASTERSWORK
MUSTNOTBETOUCH
EDHEISTHIMASTER
ANDPROTECTHIMW
ILLSPARCHIMTHE
TEARSHESHALLNO
RFEELTHESORROW

Oh no, it was my fault. I really should have considered sending out more officers.
I hope i will be helpful in deciphering the letter array, how could I not get the clue
with Ender's Copse .......
Heltenjon, you saved their lives !

[POTENTIAL SOLUTION:]

Never been so clueless..
First birdie, so there must be a second birdie
*ACHOO* ? Cannot find a thing, neither in the "poem" nor outside of it....
I'm afraid that Garret Hawthorne will be a widower soon ...
POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
Following heltenjon's guess i'd suggest we send Officers Leland and Ullman
to ENDER'S COPSE
EDIT:
There may be a lot of traps over there, it's a copse, so be extremely careful !
Thanks Officer Mkennedy

After all, this criminal has been sending messages directly to the task force - it would make sense that they had researched who was in charge of the operation.

I wonder how KS got the information about Collins' shoulder injury. You normally wouldn't give that detailed information to the press, would you? Maybe KS has access to our radio traffic or someone from our own personnel gave out information.

How is your injured officer? I was hoping to have done more damage than a busted shoulder

I am absolutely clueless for the moment. Your observation with "Hello Chief" sounds
interesting, so does the theory with the allergy. I looked at the places on the map to
find a clue about possible plants that cause allergies, but to no avail.
Let us wait until we get information concerning the contents of the book(s).
Maybe SARSDALE was the only hint in the poem. I don't expect much from Garret Hawthorne,
looks like he might not have seen much before he was hit on his head.....