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Occlude
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It's hard to figure out what conclusions to draw when several bodies with their jaws wired shut show up in the park. They all appear at around the same time and appear to be in the same stage of decomposition, so really, it could have been a freak disaster at a dentist school or something. But the leap from accident to serial killer was not a far one. More like a short stumble. But they never make assumptions. Outwardly.

The investigation goes on and no more bodies appear. For a while.

Three months later, another cluster of bodies, jaws wired shut, float up from the lake. They are only a few weeks old, but the smell is horrid. Definitely a serial killer, now. It's not good news, but it's progress.

Evidence is hard to come by. Serial killers are often meticulous. This one doesn't disappoint. The bodies from the lake are almost immediately abandoned because the only hint they can give is their identities. One of them is working on cross referencing the victims' schedules and hobbies. It seems like business as usual.

They find the killer in a school at night, stealing copper wire from a metal shop. When they search his house they find tools for puncturing bone and sedatives. And a body. It's strange because there's only one and the rest of the murders had been en masse. They brush it off, satisfied with knowing they got "the guy".