Shredder Investigation

### Performers

Peter Bourgot, Phillis Burger, Tom Einstorn, Andrew Marino, Cirilla Monarch, Merlyn Murphy, North Yorkshire Police, Elliot O'Donnell, Jack Sherwood

### Location

England

The **Shredder Investigation** was a cold case by the North Yorkshire Police involving a series of brutal murders across England attributed to a serial killer known as Shredder, committed by Peter Bourgot, a lawyer who was secretly a werewolf.

## Overview

### The Shredder Murders

In 2019, the lawyer and werewolf Peter Bourgot's bloodlust reached an insatiable level. He began killing innocent people left and right. Peter's only confidant was his business partner Phillis Burger. The killings would be attributed to a new serial killer known by the media as Shredder, due to the fact that the bodies of the victims tended to be torn apart.

#### The Shredder Case Goes Cold

On January 17, 2020, Peter would kill his final victim. Cirilla Monarch, a barista at Tom Einstorn's café in York, was killed by A64 near Clifton Moor. Because of Jack's personal feelings about his friend Cirilla, and due to how much he frequented the café, he and his partner Elliot O'Donnell were taken off the case. The Detective Inspector of the station at the time was Andrew Marino, who often wrongfully closed cases that should have remained open. As a result, the case went cold after Jack was taken off, and no new leads would present themselves for several months. The small amount of evidence would remain boxed up at the station: Cirilla's cross necklace, a pile of hair from an unknown source, and clothing with Cirilla's blood on it.

### Framing Tom Einstorn

After Jack left the force, Tom Einstorn, the owner of the café, confessed, not believing what his own eyes had told him about the night Cirilla died. Peter, working as the prosecutor on the case, went after Tom, trying his hardest to falsely prove that he was the one behind not only Cirilla's murder, but also the rest of the Shredder murders as well. When CCTV footage surfaced apparently showing Tom being aggressive towards Cirilla, he had his partner Phillis call Jack and asked to meet him at a restaurant, hoping to hire Jack as an outside private investigator.

Hiring Jack backfired for Peter. When Jack compared the evidence at the station with a journal Peter kept, he discovered that Peter had written about murdering Cirilla. This coupled with Merlyn Murphy's hunch about Peter being a werewolf and an article Murphy found from the Werewolf Trials mentioning Peter's name led to the conclusion that Peter, not Tom, was actually the killer.

### Closing the Case

Murphy, Jack, and Elliot confronted Peter and Phillis at the scene of the crime. Initially, Peter denied all accusations against him, but changed his tune when Murphy brought up her knowledge of Parliament, a secret organization dedicated to researching and dealing with monsters, cryptids, and other creatures from folklore. A fight ensued, and in the end Peter and Phillis were defeated.

Peter drafted a letter confessing to his crimes. The letter, along with the journal pages incriminating Peter, were given to D.I. Marino, who believed that Peter had gone insane. Tom Einstorn was freed, his innocence having been proven, and Peter was transported by Murphy to an isolated werewolf village.