The Lighthouse Signal
Minutes before the keeper fell to his death, someone sent a radio signal from his lighthouse.
A storm, a rock, and a keeper at the foot of the stairs
Point Argent Lighthouse stands on a cliff-sided rock off the point, reachable only by boat. After a violent storm, night keeper Robert Hale was found at the base of the stairwell. The senior keeper calls it a fall: wet steps during the power fluctuation.
Three things don't fit. The harbour radio log shows an unscheduled burst from the tower inside the death window, and that night's signal log is corrupted. Someone was at the console. And Hale, newly assigned, was about to send headquarters a report on unauthorised manual overrides at the station.
who had business with the tower
Three suspects. One victim.
Deceased
What makes this case different
An unscheduled transmission went out minutes before he fell. Decode what it carried.
Recover the night's signal log, damaged on the one night it mattered.
Someone was at the controls that night. Find the session in the lighthouse system.
Three suspects and dense interviews. Every statement can be checked against another.
The file so far
L-014 · Point ArgentPartially released
- Deceased: HALE, Robert. Night keeper.
- Found at the base of the tower stairwell.
- Initial finding: accidental fall.
- Unscheduled radio burst 23:40, inside death window.
- Manual signal test entered by .
- Weather: storm peak.
He slipped on wet steps when the power flickered.
An unscheduled burst left the tower inside the death window.
Treat it as a potential homicide. Rebuild the night from radio, console sessions and network logs, and find out who was awake.
"Storm peak conditions contributed to fall."
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