Vinyl Hell

NOTHING MORE MONSTROUS HAS EVER BEEN SEEN BY THE POLICE HOMICIDE DEPARTMENT. The bodies of the murdered women were sliced with perfectly even spirals, which could only be left by an industrial machine. The killer cut the skin of his... victims from the center of the abdomen with a two-millimeter step. Most likely, the body was rotated under the cutter, which could vaguely resemble a vinyl record player... Soon, detective Fyodor and his profiling assistant Ramute came up with a completely wild version: THIS IS A MESSAGE, SOMETHING IS RECORDED IN THE SPIRAL CUTS. With the help of unique specialists, recordings were made from each dead body. The quality turned out to be terrible: an indistinct hum, no more than that. But Ramute, who had thoroughly studied the speech apparatus and intonations of a person, managed to decipher one phrase…