Case File - Scrolls

Employer - City of Ponyville; Princess Celestia

Assigned Wizard - Travis Voyageur

Victim - Silver Scrolls, Unicorn

Age - ???

Power/Special Talent - ???

Time of Death: ???

Cause of Death: Blood loss, caused by severed neck. Thought to be cut by a diamond-coated, serrated metal wire (garrote).

Location: Ponyville, back alley two blocks away from Sugarcube Corner.

Suspect: Name unknown; Tan pegasus with amber eyes.

Notes: 

According to the Princesses, this isn’t technically required of me, but I guess old habits are hard to break. As an Auror, I was asked to file annual reports on a case whenever significant progress was made, or if I had anything vital to say on the matter. The entire process helped me catalog my thoughts, making it easier to keep track of everything that was going on. With this new situation, I might need that more than I have before.

Alright, first the basics: Silver Scrolls returned to Ponyville for unknown reasons after moving to Canterlot. She’s a known bibliophile, and is known for her extensive collection of rare texts. I haven’t found out if she has any family yet, but for now I’m guessing she doesn’t. Hell, all of this information is just stuff I’ve gathered from both local law enforcement, witnesses (Pinkie Pie), and my own searching. While Miss Scrolls was in Ponyville, she met with an unknown Pegasus (See Suspect) in Sugarcube Corner, who gave her a few old books. It’s unknown what happened after this, but later that night, she was murdered in a back alley. There were no witnesses, other than the murderer itself.

After the local law tried to investigate bless their incompetence, bless them, I started poking around, and uncovered almost all of the information on here. It’s not much, but it’s one hell of a boost compared to everything else. Anyways, I looked where the body had been found. There’s the key word, found. Initially, I believed that to be the actual place where the murder had happened. Upon closer examination of the blood stains that were around though, I found out that there were too few for that kind of murder.

Ergo...That wasn’t where the murder took place. I did a little more digging, and found another alleyway not too far from where she had been found. Unfortunately, if there was any evidence to be found, the rain must have washed it away.

Yeah, that’s right. It was raining on the night of the murder. That means the running water would have washed away any blood, DNA from the murderer, and any residual magic that I could have potentially used to track them down. Whoever did this knew what they were doing, that’s for certain.

That’s another point of concern, though. From everything I’ve seen, these ponies seem to despise the idea of taking a life to a near extreme.  Scars are hideous, bloodshed of any kind is tragic, and the very thought of murder makes most of these ponies physically sick. With that in mind, that means any law enforcement will be un-used to handling a case such as this one. The murderer will be able to avoid them easily, thanks to their bungling around. That’s more or less the reason I’m on the case in the first place.

As it stands, I was only lucky enough to find half of the things I have. That feather I found, it turns out, is a Pegasus’ primer feather. Judging by the color of it, I would wager a guess that it formerly belonged to the same pony that Scrolls met at Sugarcube Corner on the day of her death (Confirmed by Pinkie Pie). She mentioned that he was staying in one of the hotels in town, meaning I’ve got a bit of legwork to do.

There’s still something about this case that makes me uneasy. What happened to those tomes that Scrolls got when she met that pony? Who would want to murder her in the first place? Who was that pony she met? Why was the body moved? Who else is involved? And the two most important questions of all:

Who killed her?

And how are they smart enough to pull off a murder like this?

It seems the more I dig into this, the more questions I get instead of answers. In any case, I’ll report more when I can. I’ll send a copy of this to the Princesses, the Ponyville Police Department (as required by law), and save the original for my own personal use.

I just hope I’m getting paid for all of this.

- Detective Voyageur