The Mercer General Audit
A procedural audit of Mercy General Hospital following the discovery of a misidentified body in the morgue. The investigation examines access logs, security footage, and personnel statements to reconstruct a timeline of events. Multiple staff members exhibit behavioral anomalies and procedural irregularities under questioning.
Initial Crime Scene
The fluorescent hum of the morgue corridor underscoring the silence. A fractured white plastic keycard, snapped cleanly at the magnetic strip, lies near a secure door. The air carries a faint, formaldehyde-clean scent. The sterile, shadowless light reflects off the stainless steel of a body drawer labeled #47-883. A spliced security tape reel sits on a shelf outside the editing room, the adhesive on its recent splice still slightly tacky.
Crime Scene Environment
The lighting profile is uniformly sterile and shadowless from overhead fluorescents. The humidity is low, with a chilled, refrigerated air temperature. Acoustic density is minimal, dominated by the constant, low hum of fluorescent lights and refrigeration units.
Investigation Constraints
Centralized hospital patient database (with manual entry logs), digital keycard access logs for secure areas, desktop workstations with basic email and intranet, landline telephones with internal extension logs, security camera system with 48-hour recording loop and physical tape backup, pneumatic tube system for lab samples, handheld digital pagers, paper-based patient charts with carbon-copy forms.
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