GENESIS

*Genesis*, stylized in all-caps, is part of a story told in an incomplete police case file: CASE #0511997. It was created by Aquiles Castro on February 25, 2023. The story is told in two parts: a Las Cruces Police Department Incident Report (along with witness statements) of a gruesome crime, and a handmade journal belonging to Kwon Lenore.

### Plot

#### LCPD Incident Report

The first half of GENESIS is contained within a 10 by 11 ¾ inch classification file folder labeled KWON LENORE, with the case number #0511997. It contains a Las Cruces Police Department Incident Report and various witness statements regarding the aftermath of the murders of Christine Himmelfarb and Dolores Sanchez.

The incident report explains that on the night of February 23, 2019, a woman named Penelope Palacios made a 911 call from outside 4009 S Angelino Blvd in Las Cruces, New Mexico, after she'd heard a scream come from inside the home. Officers Jurou Miyazaki and Greg Patterson, recurring characters in the Gemini Feed universe, responded to the scene and found the bodies of Christine Himmelfarb and Dolores Sanchez in the basement "strangled with their torsos partially carved out and eyes gouged", along with being "partially dissolved at the fingers in a vat of potassium hydroxide". When the officers entered the basement, the owner of the home (Dr. David Willard) called out to them, and he was apprehended on suspicion of first degree murder.

The incident report notes Emilia de León as the approving supervisor for the case.

#### Witness Statements

##### Penelope Palacios

Penelope explains that she was leaving a friend's party at 11:30PM on February 23rd, trying to find the main road to call a taxi, when she came across a yellow-painted house at the end of Angelino Boulevard. Thinking it was strange that the curtains were open so late at night and in a more dangerous neighborhood, she moved closer and heard a shrill, hog-like scream for help coming from inside. She then remembers hearing a crash and something ripping, then proceeding to called the police.

When the two officers arrived, one stayed with Penelope. The other began inspecting the home. At that moment, another scream rang out, so the latter officer "broke in the whole door and ran in guns blazing". A taxi arrived shortly after, and Penelope departed the scene while the other officer followed his partner into the home.

##### Officer Greg Patterson

Patterson explains that on this night, he and Officer Miyazaki received a phone call from a concerned citizen. They arrived at the scene. While Miyazaki stayed behind with Penelope Palacios to get her side of the story and contact information, Patterson circled the perimeter of the home and looked into the windows to no avail. Just as he was about to return to his partner, he heard a woman scream "Stop this!". He entered the home, and "announced [his] presence".

Pistol at the ready, Patterson called out before entering the basement through the open door. He saw "two women desecrated in the basement", later revealed to be Christine Himmelfarb and Dolores Sanchez. He described their bodies as missing their eyes and most of their torso. Patterson directed Miyazaki to the same area and instructed him to call for backup, when they heard a man, later revealed to be David Willard, calling out from the kitchen upstairs. Willard was apprehended and taken to the Las Cruces Police Department.

##### Officer Jurou Miyazaki

Miyazaki mostly corroborates Patterson's account of the night. However, he specifies that when entering the home, his partner "broke down the door to the residence brandishing his pistol or tazer" [*sic*]. He also mentions that when meeting Patterson in the basement of the house, he saw that he was vomiting at the sight of the crime scene. Miyazaki adds that the arms of the victims hung over a vat of acid.

He cites that "Officers Jamie Moore and Luna Villareal arrived on the scene with forensics to log the crime scene and take the bodies in to be identified and autopsied".

#### Lenore's Journal

##### October 17, 2018

Lenore's first journal entry entry takes place the day after her 20th birthday. To her delight, she and Korolev are now the same age.