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The Harlow County File

about 4 h · 4–6 players

Harlow County, Oklahoma, June 14, 1952. District Attorney Curtis Mabry is shot with a shotgun on his own front yard, the evening after a raid on the gambling house in Langley. No one is arrested, the witnesses stay silent, and the file is put in a drawer. In 1959 it is pulled out again, along with a tape recording no one wanted to hand over. The file was closed without charges. Three witnesses were deposed in 1952 and are dead: the mother in the house by the shed, the pump attendant at the filling station, and the hired hand who swept around the pumps, and two of their children now sit on the other side of the table. The voice on the tape calls himself a man from Vinita, and whoever follows the tape straight through ends up at the assistant district attorney. One sentence about sawdust at the edge of a tire track appears in three files and explains the rest.

The Harlow County File – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.