The dark Black Box recording studio behind glass, its monitors still glowing
Case IH-042 · The Hype Collective house · New Year’s Eve

Influencer House

She had 4.2 million followers and a camera in every room. Nobody saw how she died.

Listen: the call from Dispatch
The rest of the call is in the case file.
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A party upstairs, a sealed studio below

New Year's Eve at the Hype Collective house. While the party ran upstairs, lead creator Ashley Kim, 26, with 4.2 million followers, was found unresponsive at 23:18 in the soundproof basement studio the housemates call the Black Box.

The housemates say she locked herself in to sleep it off. But the studio was sealed from outside, the ventilation was off, and Ashley's story went up during the window she was supposedly out cold. She had found something wrong with the house's money, and she was about to go public.

who was in the house

Four suspects. One victim.

Ashley KimDeceased
Ashley KimLead creator, 4.2M followers
Ryan Cole
Ryan ColeHouse manager
Lexi Monroe
Lexi MonroeLifestyle influencer
Jay Park
Jay ParkHouse editor
Milo Reyes
Milo ReyesPrank and stunt creator

What makes this case different

01A house that logs everything

Smart-home logs record doors, locks and the ventilation. Read what the house saw.

02The last story

Ashley's final post went up while she was supposedly incapacitated. Work out what it really proves.

03Follow the money

Sponsor contracts and a crypto wallet trail show where the house's money went.

04Four digital alibis

Scheduled posts, DMs and edits: everyone has a timestamp. Not all of them are honest.

The file so far

Death investigation
IH-042 · Hype Collective house
Partially released
  1. Deceased: KIM, Ashley. 4.2M followers.
  2. Location: soundproof studio known as the Black Box.
  3. Found 23:18. Door sealed from outside, ventilation off.
  4. House cameras: .
  5. Present in the house: .
  6. Cause of death: .
The housemates say

She locked herself in to sleep it off.

The studio says

Sealed from outside. The ventilation was off.

Your orders

Rebuild the night from the house's own logs and find out who sealed the Black Box.

The soundproof Black Box studio
Exhibit A · the Black Box studioBuilt so nobody outside could hear a thing. What happened in here while the party raged upstairs?
The studio keypad lock with scratches
Exhibit B · keypad lock, 22:57Locked at 22:57, with scratches under the handle. Who set the lock, and who was on the wrong side?

"I’m not protecting anyone anymore."

Exhibit C · house group chatAshley's last word to her housemates. Who was she done protecting?

the party never stopped

Somebody in that house knows who locked the door.

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