Common Human Decency

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The town of Greta, Michigan, has historically been small and uneventful. Crime is generally nonexistent, and what little crime does happen is usually overshadowed by news from the neighboring city of Flint.

Danny Hammond tries to keep out of the local news by staying home from the community college's local parties, where most of the arrests in Greta take place. The town hasn't exactly been a hub for criminal activity; Danny knows it, everyone in Greta knows it.

So when a serial killer appears in the small downtown area, it's unusual. He seems to have a knack for leaving his victims immortalized in what they were doing before they died; one man was found dead sitting on a bench waiting for the bus, another standing at a crosswalk, still upright.

Normally, Danny would leave these kinds of things alone. But with the local detectives having trouble finding a suspect, his friends convince him that it wouldn't hurt to poke around.
Just a little.