The evidence
13 exhibits.
Some matter. Some don't.
REPORTMISSING PERSON
EX. ACOASTAL RESCUE
EX. BTHE GAZETTE
EX. CTIDE TABLE
EX. HCCTV · 23:41
EX. I[REDACTED]
EX. MTHE MAP
???HOW HE GOT CAUGHT
A man paddles out at sunset and never comes back. His wife collects $1.2 million. Eleven months later, a box of records lands on your desk. Somewhere inside it is the one boring mistake that gives him away. Find it.
OPEN THE CASE $1221 pages, Letter or A4, plus an ink-saver version. Or skip the printer and play straight from a tablet. Seal the solution pages before you start.
Spread the exhibits across a table, a floor, a wall. Rebuild the night of 14 March hour by hour. Red string optional. Obsession guaranteed.
Name who did it, where he's hiding and the mistake that gave him away, with an exhibit for every answer. Then tear open the sealed file and score yourself out of 15.
He's on a beach somewhere, laughing.
You'd have caught him. Eventually.
Vance owes you a coffee.
Fedora earned. Nobody fakes it on your watch.
Elias Marsh is fictional. How he gets caught isn't. The case is built on the patterns that sink real fakers, like the "Canoe Man" from CAUGHT. Case #001.
No. It's an instant PDF download: Letter and A4, each in full colour and ink-saver. Print at home, or play straight from a tablet.
Three out of five. Sharp first-timers crack it in about an hour. Every clue you need is in the file, so there's no outside googling. And yes, there are red herrings.
1–4 detectives is the sweet spot: date night, game night, a rainy Sunday. Solo works too, if you like arguing with yourself.
The sealed file walks through every answer and the exhibits that prove it. It scores you out of 15, gives you your rank, and breaks down exactly how he got caught.
14+. No gore, no violence. Just fraud, lies and one very dry kayak.
