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Crime podcasts and novels have become really popular in recent years. I can date my interest back to the time I listened to the first Serial series. There was something about how the story was told that really got my interest. I was trying to work out what happened. What evidence did they have for and against?

So, today, I thought it would be interesting to plot out a similar situation.

You have someone who has been accused of a crime and someone who has been the victim of one.

The perpetrator – who are they? How old are they? What was their relationship to the victim? Interests? Hobbies? Personality.

Who was the victim? How old were they? Hobbies? Interests? Personality? What put them in harms way?

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