MITCH
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Mitch built the formal case against the Marlowe family with a specific cold precision that felt different from every previous investigation this compound had run — not fueled by urgency or fear, but by the deliberate, careful construction of something meant to hold up against people who genuinely believed they'd done nothing wrong.
"Their belief system is documented extensively," he told the round table, laying out weeks of careful research. "Internal correspondence, teaching materials apparently used with the children, a coherent ideology that frames the structure's historical work as necessary population management rather than murder."
The specific clinical language of it made my skin crawl even secondhand.
"How do we approach the children," I asked. "Without traumatizing
