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CVI – Confidential Victim Insert

Case Reference: GC–FIR–003 (Supplemental, Unfiled)
Compiled by: Inspector Tomas Reed
Status: Not Entered into Official Record
Reason: Unidentified deceased / No claimant / Jurisdictional overlap

These individuals were not counted among the fourteen fatalities.
They were removed from the rail bed after clearance operations and logged as “non-reportable remains.”


CVI–A

UNIDENTIFIED MALE — DECAPITATION

Estimated Age: 30–45
Location Found: Passenger Platform edge, beneath signal gantry
Condition:

  • Head severed cleanly at cervical vertebrae

  • Body largely intact below shoulders

  • No defensive posture evident

Notable Findings:

  • Pocket watch recovered (no inscription, high-quality brass)

  • Single railway ticket fragment folded inside coat lining

  • Ticket was not validated at any station gate

Observations:
The decapitation was consistent with train speed and angle. However, the body’s position suggests the individual was standing closer to the track than platform markings allow.

Ticket fragment corresponds to a non-public routing code. No such route is listed on civilian schedules.

Disposition:
Classified as “unauthorized presence.”
No effort made to trace ticket origin.

Personal Note:
People don’t buy tickets for places that don’t exist unless they expect to arrive.


CVI–B

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE — BODY MAULED

Estimated Age: 25–40
Location Found: Between rails, Goods Trains Platform spillover
Condition:

  • Extensive post-impact trauma

  • Facial features unrecognizable

  • Hands intact, no jewelry

Notable Findings:

  • Inner coat pocket contained a sealed paper slip

  • Paper undamaged by impact, protected by oilcloth

  • Contents: handwritten time, location, and initials only

Example:

“06:00 — Hourglass — R.”

No names. No context.

Observations:
The slip does not resemble a ticket, receipt, or official document. It resembles an appointment marker.

No matching reservation exists in public Hourglass Court logs.

Disposition:
Classified as “incidental commuter.”
Paper returned to effects storage, later misplaced.

Personal Note:
Someone expected her somewhere at a precise time.
She did not miss it.
Time missed her.


CVI–C

UNIDENTIFIED MALE — PARTIAL REMAINS, DISCOLORATION

Estimated Age: 35–55
Location Found: Track drainage channel, downstream of impact zone
Condition:

  • Lower body destroyed

  • Upper torso recovered

  • Head separated but present

Notable Findings:

  • Distinct blue discoloration around neck and jawline

  • Pattern inconsistent with post-impact bruising

  • No ligature present

Observations:
Discoloration resembles pre-mortem oxygen deprivation or chemical exposure rather than trauma-induced cyanosis.

Rail medical officer attributed coloration to “impact pooling.”

Post-mortem toxicology requested and denied.

Reason given:

“No identity. No jurisdiction. No necessity.”

Disposition:
Classified as “non-identifiable remains.”
Cremation authorized without further examination.

Personal Note:
I have seen this color before.
Not on tracks.
On tables.


SUMMARY DISMISSAL NOTE (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

All three individuals were excluded from casualty totals due to:

  • Lack of identification

  • No next-of-kin claim

  • Absence from validated passenger records

Their deaths were deemed consequential to the primary incident and not subject to independent investigation.


INSPECTOR’S PRIVATE ASSESSMENT (UNRECORDED)

Three people died who were not supposed to be there.

One had a ticket that goes nowhere.
One had an appointment no one admits to scheduling.
One carried the same blue shadow I have now seen twice in this city.

If they were accidents,
they were inconvenient ones.

I was advised not to pursue identification.
I was reminded the case was already closed.

I have complied.

I have not forgotten.