The locket
[00:22.05] moonlit cafe, jazz in the background
[00:26.30] clock strikes 12 as my partner gets sat down
[00:29.30] ""mad town, ain't it?"" heard him say between the sirens
[00:32.30] we both knew the answer so there's no point in replying now
[00:35.55] someone made a call about an hour ago
[00:38.05] about a body found, left out on countington road
[00:41.30] no signs of struggle, no trauma sticking out or exposed
[00:44.55] just a heart-shaped locket with two flowers enclosed
[00:47.55] a single rose in a gold-tinted tunic
[00:50.06] with an old-scented tulip wrapped around it's fragile stem
[00:53.56] and behind the flora's aura was engraved a battle hymn
[00:56.31] it read ""better find me before i do it again""
[00:59.55] no cause of death was ever found, nor identity recovered
[01:02.55] it resembled a cadaver that was placed to be discovered
[01:05.80] and it only took two weeks until we found another
[01:08.80] but this time it was the figure of our home state's governor
[01:12.05] wait, wait, wait, wait, no... heart racing
[01:15.30] the same circumstance, location, and pacing?
[01:18.30] the same twisted flowers, same fingerprint erasing
[01:21.30] and the same heart shape with the same gold casing?
[01:24.55] the same engraving, but now a new message:
[01:27.55] ""this was your last chance to learn your lesson""
[01:31.05] a threat in/of itself, but upon further inspection
[01:33.81] the carvings housed tainted blood samples and resin
[01:37.05] close examination led to find the same poison
[01:40.05] in the body of the first victim that had been reported
[01:43.30] details recorded, mulled over, and considered
[01:46.30] were thought to be going nowhere until we received a picture
[01:49.30] of our victims at a party, hot and heavy, sharing hands
[01:52.56] the governor was thought to be a faithful, married man
[01:55.81] so when his wife was named the culprit and was rottin' in the can
[01:58.81] i knew that i had been successful when i thought to lay my plan
