The Killer on the Polaroid Camera

5th August [chatroom]

Clare joined the chat

Ava: WTF?
Jamie: Who added Clare?
Poppy: Clare left the chat?
Catherine: Clare? How've you been?
Matt: Why'd you leave?
Oliver: WOAH!!!! IT'S LIKE THE UNFRIENDED THING!!!! BILLY123 AM I RIGT!!!! 😱😱😱
Clare: Hey guys, how've you been?
Catherine: Good thanks ☺️
Matt: Good thanks, and yourself?
Clare: Honestly, I've been so good, thanks for asking! My family and I went down to the beach yesterday, and I got myself the BEST tan ever! 🙏
Poppy: ... this isn't Clare.
Ava: Agreed
Jamie: Took the words out of my mouth
Oliver: Clare, I hope you didn't do that much damage to your skin. You're going to really regret it when you're older when it starts looking all saggy and 🤢
Matt: Exactly
Catherine: Oliver? That was unlike you 😂😂
Oliver: WELP, SOMEONE'S GOTTA BE THE NERD 🤓
Ava: No way, this isn't Clare! She'd never in her right mind go out and get a tan! The only time we saw her last year outside was when she was studying in a park! And even then she was wearing the strongest sun cream anyone's ever seen!
Poppy: Yeah, Clare is known for hating the sunlight!
Jamie: I don't know. Maybe this new version of Clare will be more exciting. We can all go to the beach together right 😝
Clare: Okay, there was something that I didn't tell you! When I was on the beach I took my computer with me and I was doing some digging as to why Melody is missing and the murder of Heather. I think I've got some answers 🙃
Oliver: CLOSE THE FRIDGE!!
Catherine: Really??
Jamie: You're joking!
Matt: Wow!!! Yes Clare!!
Ava: ...?
Poppy: Is this a joke?
Matt: TBH, she wasted a day at the beach to do some research in an otherwise impossible mass crime. You've got to admit that sounds like a very 'Clare' thing to do 🤷‍♂️
Poppy: I'm listening...
Clare: What we needed to know was WHY the criminal did what they did. The murder of Mark was easy, and it was because he just knew too much. He had a genius IQ and he'd figured it out before the murderer wanted him to. He had to be silenced. Easy enough.
Heather and Melody on the other hand, I found a match. Don't you think it's weird that the criminal only targeted the two sisters? This leads us to believe that there's a reason WHY they would get targeted. Who knows, mainly it's because somebody here had a bit of history with them... 😏
Catherine: Wow, yeah?
Matt: That's crazy! It's so stupid that Mark just lost his life over something like that 😡
Jamie: Who's the murderer???
Ava: History?
Poppy: What kind of 'history'
Oliver: SOMEBODY WAS DOING SOME DIRTY ACTIVITY WITH THAT EMOTICON NEXT TO IT 😏😏😏
Clare: Oliver is not wrong. We all know what happened with Heather's relationship last year, right?
Catherine: What??
Matt: No way!
Clare: Yep. He was so angry that Heather slept with someone else that all his anger just got pent up.
Poppy: That makes no sense, why now?
James: Shut up right now Clare.
Ava: ???
Clare: The answer to that Poppy is that he's been being counselled for a year. He was having 'anger management' issues, and he's had to take pills to calm him down.
Matt: Wowww
James: Go. Away.
Clare: And according to his parents, he tried to overdose on those pills so he wasn't allowed to take them anymore. Could it be that the face of his ex, sleeping with another guy just put him in a fit of rage?
Oliver: THIS IS FLIPPING CRAZY!!!
Clare: And so he disposed of Heather. But then, seeing how close everybody got after the death, we all spent valuable time together. To bond. But he and Melody bonded a bit too much. Dare I say, even developed feelings for one another. I mean, she did have exactly the same face as her sister's. After seeing Melody in her downright suicidal state, he decided to put her in a place where Melody would be safe... even if she can't make any decisions for herself anymore. You should see the woods she was last spotted in. You can hear the gentle buzzing of electric fences everywhere. You can bet my ass that they weren't there before!
Ava: I can't process this.
Poppy: I'm with you there.
Jamie: Same.
Clare: We all suspected him. After he missed Heather's funeral. So James, what do you have to say?
James: This is bullshit!
Ava: That's what anyone would say
Catherine: WTF
Matt: The evidence is damning.
Poppy: I actually thought you were a decent guy.
Jamie: Police. Called.
James: WHAT THE FUCK!! I DIDN'T DO IT!!!! YEAH YOU'RE RIGHT I CAN'T TAKE MEDICATION ANYMORE, I HAD A CRUSH ON MELODY, SO WHY WOULD I KILL HER!
Oliver: Melody's... dead?
Ava: What? How could you?
James: What? No! I'm just assuming!!!!
Clare: I think you've said enough.
Matt: Damn, you've done messed up.
Catherine: Thanks Clare. For clearing this up.
Jamie: Melody's gone then 😭