Building 3 “The Unknown Bodies”

The following case has been deemed unsolved and officially closed. However, there are still several pieces of the mystery that continue to intrigue and confound those who have invested their time and effort into helping find a resolution to the deaths.

There are really two questions that have refused any sort of explanation: how did an entire family manage to die without any of them waking, and who was the family that was killed? This is of particular interest as the owners of the home were out to see relatives at the time and could not identify any of the victims.

The majority of the events are assumed to have taken place in the owners white house on Wellington Street, constructed in the Georgian colonial style. It is a two-story home, with ten windows on the top floor and eight on the bottom. The home is rather nondescript, and very little of it seems to stand out from the other properties.

The bodies were found after a neighbor had noticed a person in the window and realized that they had not moved for over a half hour. Concerned since they did not recognize the person, they contacted the police who managed to find a total of four bodies; two children around the ages of ten and twelve, and two adults whose ages were approximated to have been in their thirties. It was originally assumed that it may have been some sort of squatters, but nothing had been taken including food.

The mystery begins with the bodies themselves. All of the bodies showed bruising, but they were on strange places like the ribs, back, and lower thighs. The bruising ran deep, and surely would have resulted in a great amount of pain, though none of the bruises were on places that would suggest something that would kill, like on the neck. The bodies themselves seemed to have been killed without struggle, as none of the bruising seems to be the result of a fight. There were no stab or bullet wounds, and other than the bruising no exterior evidence of damage. The cause of their deaths remain a mystery though several theories have been considered.

The main theory, and the one that predominated throughout the case, was that the family was somehow poisoned. However, toxicology revealed no foreign substances in their bodies, and investigation of the organs and other tissues suggested no reason for death. The house was checked for elevated carbon monoxide levels and other gases both in the home and in the bodies. No evidence was found to confirm that the people's deaths were caused by exposure to elevated levels of gases of any kind, or asphyxiation.

The adult who had been seen in the window had been posed by way of an intricate metal contraption, one that was obviously homemade and took some time to construct. The man was posed in the upper bedroom. The other bodies were also modeled, one of the children being found lying in a bed in the kid’s room, another playing with odd toys in the foyer, and the third, a female, “walking” down the stairs. At each location a camera had been set up, and had all recorded to the point of running out of batteries. The tapes were later watched, though they were all started around the same time, suggesting multiple assailants.

Strangely, the tapes begin several days after the people's death, the purpose of which has yet to be determined. The toys were also homemade, and were obviously in a state of great age, possibly personal items owned by the assailants.

No fingerprints were found on the cameras, as well as on the contraptions, and no manner of identification, including dental, were able to positively identify the bodies. Records of missing persons turned up no leads, and no one in the community has come forward to claim them. No evidence of forced entry was found, and it is unknown how the victims or the killers managed to make their way into the home. It is also unknown how such a seemingly complex operation could have been accomplished without anyone in the neighborhood noticing.

Shortly after the bodies were found the owners of the home moved to another location, and to this day the home has not been purchased. The only record of the crime ever happening is the writing that was put on the wall. Because of the haste of the move, and a general lack of interest, the writing has never been removed. The writing reads “We are watching.” To this day this is the only crime of its type, and efforts to reopen the case have been refused based on a lack of new evidence.