Cole Burkhardt
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840 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Cole Burkhardt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The confirmation, I learned immediately upon my arrival, was nothing more than necessary paperwork for the investigation that had already begun.
They knew what they had found, and I did too.
I still think about the early morning janitor that had simply been doing her job.
The scent of human remains is not one she'll likely to forget soon.
Human bones, rotten skin, torn muscles, and wet sinew stuffed into individual white plastic bags and thrown into the dumpster, where they had immediately collected flies and other squirming, crawling creatures.
A team of specialists removed the four neatly tied bags from the dumpster and followed the customary procedures to contain them safely and categorize them as evidence.
I don't know what sort of degree or training you have to receive to be given the privilege to work with what was once a human body so closely.
I remember wondering if the people in the plastic full-body suits appreciated how lucky they were
to be so close to something so intriguing.
Human bones cleaned so thoroughly that there wasn't even any blood in the bag.
The technicalities of being a private investigator, however, were intimately known to me.
When the job was offered to me, I accepted it immediately.
The city chief of police had been brought in swiftly to take over for campus security, and I think he mistook my enthusiasm at the job for an overeager sense of justice.
He expected me to find the killer, his words, not mine, and to scope out the full details of the crime they committed to determine just how many life sentences would be necessary.
I took about a week learning my way around the campus.
I exchanged my collared shirts and slacks for hoodies and jeans, and even at 30 years old, I passed for a student moderately well.
I spent time exploring each building, familiarizing myself with what classrooms were busy and when, which areas were open to the public and which weren't, and listening in on every stray rumor that had kicked up
since the mateshift body bags had been found and taken away.
The rumors ranged from suggestions that the claims were exaggerated, and the janitor had freaked out about finding some animal bones, to speculation over which student or faculty they thought was capable of murder.
I kept a running list of names.
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