Criminal Report: "New Ashen's Lecher"

Fifty years ago there was a string of murders with a similar modus operandi. Each of the victims had a major organ removed, before being converted into an embalmed puppet of some sort, each more surgically altered than the last. The recurring constant that remained among each cadaver was that they had their mouths stretched into unnatural smiles. The locations where each body was discovered was seemingly random, alleyways, schoolyards, factories, always left out in the open. It was forty years ago that a suspect had been arrested for the countless murders, however, this man admitted to the murders, and more that had gone unreported. He never gave a true answer as to why he did it.

Always changing the answer as to what motivated him. 

The convict who had been arrested for the murders had died in prison of a heart-attack. 

In later years this became more random, as a copy killer seemed to be able to get into places that most would have no access to.

This fact had surprised the city guard, seeing as how none of the bodies had any relation to the places they were left in. Many of which were becoming more mechanical.

The killers would start with toes, fingers, then whole hands and feet, slowly moving up the limbs with each target.

These days the children at the schools have a strange nursery rhyme that they sing for a laugh. Local teenagers will visit abandoned homes and claim the ghost of the Lecher haunts it, and he would turn them into a puppet.

Some of the retired brass that have been interviewed had their theories, one suggesting this man was a failed practicing necromancer. Others thought he was a crazed scientist from one of the various companies around the city employed by Nexicorp.  

What we know now is that there is some truth to what the children of the city say, there is still a New Ashen Lecher, and they are pushing his work to something far more diabolical.

Recent reports show runes carved into the necks of each victim, with the words “I’m Back” written in what we can only assume is the victim’s blood.

(Unauthorized entry, Officer O’Mallie severely injured.)