All items included in the assemblage were found at the crime scene.
This new crime investigation method was initially scoffed at by the media, however it's success in a number of previously unsolved cases has now guaranteed it's adoption by forces across the world.
Certainly, it has allowed police artists a much wider range of aesthetic choices than were previously available to them, relegated as they were to merely sketching mugshots of suspects from the even sketchier descriptions of witnesses.
The tourniquet (bottom left) was found around the victims' neck, and is considered by both police forensics teams and the Detective Chief Aesthetic Inspector to be the murder weapon. The map fragment and wooden laminates are thought to have some fetishistic significance to the killer.
The resultant aesthetic profile (illustrated here) has been circulated to all units, and an arrest is expected imminently.
They say I'm disturbed. Well, of course I'm
disturbed. I mean, we're all disturbed. And if we're not, why not? Doesn't this
blend of blindness and blandness want to make you do something crazy? Then why
not do something crazy? It makes a helluva lot more sense than blowing your
fucking brains out. -Mark Hunter