[h3]Setting Details #1: The Diamond Killer[/h3]

Any character that has been based in New York for any decent length of time will be aware of the infamous serial murderer, The Diamond Killer. What follows is common knowledge about the Diamond Killer. Your character may or may not follow of the news, so it's up to you how much of this stuff your character knows.

The Diamond Killer seems to appear to people of wealth or at the very least those wearing copious amounts of precious gems, hence the name. When the headline went out on April 19th, 1921 warning people about this fact, people in the area began to stop wearing precious gems. The killings, however, continued with the only hints of it being The Diamond Killer being removed diamonds from wedding rings, or missing bejeweled objects. Some even speculate that the killings could possibly not have even been from the same killer, thus making it only harder on investigators to pin down the target.

Other than the Killer's consistency in stealing jewels, there is no rhyme or reason to their victim pattern. None of the victims have a solid connection nor is there a common thread of method of murder.

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Marilan Taff: bashed to death by blunt force trauma. A crime of passion, as even long after the girl would have been dead, the murderer continued on until the head is in the state it is now. Crime took place in Taff's home. All precious jewels had been lifted out of the precious metals they were set in, with no sign of the murder weapon.

A man with multiple stab wounds to the abdomen has curled into the foetal position and died in a disgusting alley. Blood had pooled all around his corpse.

A little girl in a flouncy dress lying crumpled in a heap on top of a building that sat next to a sky scraper. She had been pushed to her death. Her leg and neck sits at an awkward and unlikely angle, her fixed expression one of pure fear.

An old man surrounded by buckets of clams has had the specimens's he'd been shucking shoved into his eyes and mouth. The razor clams had cut off his tongue in the process, causing him to both bleed out and drown in his own blood on the beach sands. Several of the clams lay open beside him with their pearls, or the possibility of them having them, missing. This was the murder that began the panic surrounding the Diamond Killer.

A ballerina impaled with several glass shards. She lay on the stage in her ballet outfit, her glamourous gems missing from her attire.

There have been seventeen other murders, but these are the most high-profile.