Fun fact: a lot of my clients don't actually believe in the supernatural. I've had plenty of jobs doing fake rituals for mental patients, finding teenagers and college kids who got mixed up in neo-pagan cults, and analyzing crimes with occult elements. On cases like that, my clients don't need to believe in the supernatural, they just need to believe that they other people in the equation do. So it wasn't that out of the ordinary when I got a call from an attorney wanting me to testify as an occult expert this morning.
There's been a streak of violent murders in the greater Sacramento area over the past two months, and someone is finally going to trial over it. From what I've heard from my law enforcement contact (including the person who called me this morning; it turns out wheedling information out of people is mostly a matter of being annoying and trying to seem innocuously idiotic), there's a ton of evidence connecting this guy to the crimes, but most of it is scattered around; there's only one murder that they can really pin on him. He also has a bunch of supernatural paraphernalia. The prosecution is hoping that I'll be able to tell them he was trying to use harmful magic so that it can add to the total weight of evidence and also prove premeditation.
Well, I'd better put on some pants. I've got some evidence to examine.
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