🔍 Forensic Report: Evidence ID #003 — “The Confession File”
🕵️‍♀️ Filed By: Mayra Mains, Resident Reluctant Believer
📁 Division: Dead Wrong Investigations
📎 Case Reference: DWI-0725-FMF

📍 Location Recovered:
Discovered in a locked drawer inside Father Mick McCall’s rectory office. Drawer key was taped to the underside of a worn leather Bible marked “Private – Do Not Remove.”

✏️ Evidence Details:

• Material: Aged manila folder (faint water damage on bottom edge).

• Contents:

  • One black-and-white photo of a bruised child (identified by sources as Stuart Burney).

  • Psychiatric assessment dated 2004.

  • Handwritten note signed “Fr. M.M.”

• Additional Items:

  • Prayer card tucked between pages.

  • Church bulletin from the same week of the report — folded to a sermon titled “What We Choose Not to See.”

🧠 Analysis:

• Photograph: Timestamp and uniform place the child near the church in 2004.

• Psychiatric Report: Redacted sections, but clear mentions of fear, evasion, and potential emotional trauma.

• Handwritten Note:

  “I failed him. I knew. I said nothing. Lord forgive me, but don’t let the silence win.”

• Ink on the letter has run slightly from either water damage or tears. Tone indicates guilt, not malice.

• Retention of file suggests unresolved remorse or fear of wider scandal.

• Raises major questions about who else might have known — and what they did with that knowledge.

📌 Player Considerations:

• Father McCall may have been hiding more than this file.

• Could be blackmailed, confronted, or protected depending on player alignment.

• Several characters have reason to dig deeper — including the Sheriff, Grandma Jean, and Robert Burney.