The Red Candle Murder Poem by Micah Krahn

(laid out like a Crime Scene Investigation Report)

Anonymous Phone Call
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A steel worker named Ellie Geisner, called The Port Coquitlam Police Department to report that a body found was found on a construction site, when she arrived for work on the site at 6: 30 am.


Response
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Police Officers responding to a 187. Homicide. Detective Hardiman is called in to investigate the murder. As he firsthandedly witnesses the scene of the crime he sees everything fall into place and begins to recount the events which might have occurred late last night.


Crime Scene
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An unfinished construction site, on the crossroad intersection of Oak Avenue and Charles Street, The work site is unfinished and has steel everywhere, rebar has been lain but not set in concrete yet.


It had rained the night before, the scene itself is quite muddy, rain water everywhere. Current weather conditions are cloudy.


Scattered amongst the body are what appear to be her personal effects. Contents of her purse spilled everywhere. Red lipstick, eyeliner and other make up, wallet and concert tickets scattered everywhere.


Red Candles are placed around the corpsed lifeless body.


The Victim
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According to her driver's licence, her name is Anberlin Stone. She was an assistant manager for the Metricity Bank located on Bell Avenue.Age 23, an attractive Caucasian young woman married to a lawyer named Jeremy Stone; and pursued as a suspect as Detective Hardiman would discover later on.


The Victim's naked corpse is held together by four steel strands of jagged rebar protruding through her body.One through the neck, one through her chest and another through her lower abdomen and the fourth through her left leg.


Upon closer inspection, Detective Hardiman notices that there the killer poured hot red candle wax on her eyelids, which had hardened. This would later become known as the Red Candle Murder; yet for now remains unsolved.


She was wearing one of her black Chanel heels, the other was nearby. A black miniskirt and white blouse assumed to have belonged to the victim.lay nearby as well.


The Coroner on site, Courtney Remy. Later suggests that this was a crime of passion, a possible affair. Upon further study at the morgue, she will discover more clues. On site however, she noticed that not only had the victim bled to death but also suffered trauma to the head from a blunt object.

Murder Weapon
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Although she may have been pushed to her death caused by the head trauma she had suffered earlier, then falling onto jagged rebar. Bloodied rebar was also recovered from the scene on the other side of the street as officers laid out and canvassed the area.

Conclusion
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Though this case remains unsolved, it will be revisited at a later date. Officers still need to catalog all evidence to this case. Perhaps Detective Hardiman will solve this cold case. Time will only tell.