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From what i read in the recent letter,
INGENIOUS must be wrong.
I believe that it must be

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INSIDIOUS

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This would mean that OVEREXERTED
would not fit, but it surely must be
a word beginning with OVER or OUT
A pity that

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OVERINDULGED

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doesn’t fit, but i think this is the
right direction

Bravissimo !!!!
That must have been the missing one

That‘s ingenious !!!!!!!!
Never would have found this one out !!!

[POTENTIAL SOLUTION:]

POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
RICHMOND HILL
(see above post)

[POTENTIAL SOLUTION:]

EDITED:
I think that Leeches and Hate make sense, but Hate could as well be Love,
for whatever reason only the killer knows
Stupot may be right :

It doesn’t fit our current thinking that the Killer thinks the system is broken or corrupt. Perhaps, rather, he views the court as a holy, sacred institution

The first victim was a criminal lawyer, not
a judge,who was accused by the court, so maybe the killer
is actually a judge.
Just a thought , so 7 down might rather be a
positive adjective......

POTENTIAL SOLUTION:
In my desperation, I have searched the map for locations with 12 letters.
Assuming that from what we have so far the words HONOR, ILL, LEECHES and LIARS are correct,
the only 12 letter location with HILL i found is :
RICHMOND HILL, which in turn means that a few other words
in our crossword solution are wrong :-((
BUT: The current score would be 9 letters of 12, so TROFIE und JUSTICE could be wrong
with 7 down still unknown
Instead of JUSTICE, DESTROY could be an alternative, but a kind of pasta with Y at the end ??
That would be TROPHY instead of TROFIE, but the T doesn't appear in Richmond Hill
However, with the D in DESTROY instead of JUSTICE we would have 10 hits out of 12,
if i counted correctly
So 1 and 7 should be O and C

I am still a bit baffled about the meaning of Justice Killer's letter :

I will be sending you no more hints until I see my puzzle, fully solved, in the newspaper

Maybe the primary task is only to publish the solution of the crossword puzzle....
The numbered boxes contain too few vowels, whereas the light blue intersections contain too many
to make a meaningful sentence or location

Dear colleagues,

I have tampered with the crossword using MS-Paint and the
suggestions that look reasonable to us. Also, I have marked
the intersections of rows/columns in light blue.
Maybe one of you will find the missing 7 down and solve
this mystery. You find the file in the link below :

Good luck !

Iaal

We are getting close , i guess.
The pasta leaves me clueless,
so do 7 down and 2 across
As far as I understand, there won‘t
be an update until the puzzle is solved
Note: For 12 across it could also be :
Bedbugs :-))
The solution might as well consist of
the letters found at the intersection
of rows and columns (10, if i counted correctly)

[Noobs]

Referring to letter two i am pretty sure that 6 across is

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Noobs

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I think 3 across was hidden in your last post

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Honor

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And for 9 across, could it be

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Ingenious

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?
Plus a suggestion for 1 down

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Napoli

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Wow, you are surpassing each other !!
This is challenging and i give it a try.
Somehow reminds of the Zodiac Killer movie ….

As far as i can see on my smartphone’s
tiny display, all initial letters of the parks
( shown in green on the map ) are found
in the 7x7 letter matrix, except the "V"of Van Cortlandt Park,
which is where the first victim will be found

Bravissimo heltenjon,
That was the breakthrough!
Really nice and clever riddle, and the names in
the solution are great :-)

Hope it won‘t be the last one , i am still
torturing my brain to make up a story of
this quality !!

I am still stumbling across your previous answer :
Is the gender of victim/killer relevant? 
(Not especially though a heterosexual attraction is partially involved in the choice of victim)
About the motive:

Is jealousy involved in the motive ?
Did the victim insult the killer ?
Is the fact that the victim was a lookalike of the wax figure random ?
Is the victim‘s face the template for the wax figure‘s face (not clear yet to me) ?
Were the victim and the killer a couple for some time ?

I liked this one, don't know if the company is as popular in the U.K. as
it is on the continent

Thanks CaptainD,
There were a few clues in your reply....

Was there some ..ahem... rather unusual sexual practice
involved in the murder ?
Did the preserving agent have to be replaced periodically?
Was a different agent used in lack of the right one?
Was the corpse temporarily unavailable for the agent treatment?
Are the wax figure's current whereabouts of importance?

Thanks for the summary, heltenjon !
The accomplice must be the male killer's sister
From how I understood it, the victim's face didn't have
to be treated with wax, since it actually looked like the
wax figure already, I may be wrong in that, because I
didn't put my question precisely enough, will do that by editing my last post
This question was answered with YES:
Was the skin of the victim‘s face visible for the people passing by ?
We don't know the motive and how the victim was murdered, if the preserving agent
caused the death or if she was already dead when her blood was replaced by the agent
Also, it is not clear yet how the murder was discovered
It is obvious that something in the plan went wrong, otherwise the murder would not have
been discovered

Great riddle, I wish I had 20% of CaptainD's fertile imagination :-)

Was the murder discovered due to a physical impact on the corpse ?
(Not quite sure what you mean here - if you mean did someone bump into it, no,
if you mean did the corpse physically decay, yes)
Sorry for the ambiguous question, what I wanted to ask is:

Did something bump into the victim's corpse ?

Did the victim's face look like the wax figure's face beforehand
(i.e. it was not modeled with wax to look like the wax figure's face) ?
Did the preserving agent drip from the victim's corpse ?
Is the victim older than the killer ?
Was it a ritual murder ?

This riddle has the potential for the screenplay
of a computer game or a movie :-))

Were there more corpses looking like wax figures in the museum ?
Is the wax museum part of an amusement park?
Is it part of a ghost train ?
Was the murder discovered due to a physical impact on the corpse ?

If i were a detective i‘d most likely be fired by now ....
Is the killer a conservator ( someone who prepares corpses for funerals) ?
Did the victim‘s corpse lie in a coffin ( horizontally)?
Was the victim‘s corpse found in a vertical position?

The plot thickens ...
Does the killer work in a morgue?
Does the killer work in a funeral parlour?
Is the killer a medic/physician ?

Are killer and accomplice siblings ?
Is the wax figure now used for a special purpose ?
Was the initial intention not to hide the victim but to
get hold of the wax figure ? ( the corpse thus
only substituting the wax figure and the victim
looking like the wax figure was just right
for this purpose)?
Is the wax statue of great value, in a financial or emotional sense ?