PAST HUNT ARCHIVE
2021 - A Squeaky Footbridge With No Park
CLUE #01
A kindred spirit guided you to Belvidere, top shelf!
The plan concrete, but blown up at Cass Gilbert
Threaded the needle at Kellogg in-between spans
Things got corny amidst Como's top lot
The golden rule applied at Pedro, sans baggage
Steps were taken, the height of success at Irvine and Irvine
Winged it at Newell when the puck got mowed down
A monster with 35 eyes, cornered at Robert Luck
Welcome, please join us for Hunt #9
"Wait", you surmise, "Those hunts are out of order?"
The clues that unfold, lead to treasure, the story, a fateful timeline
Limit your search to St. Paul's border
EXPLANATION: Welcome - hospitality, out of order - court language, pierce butler.
The storyline parallels Paul Michael Stephani's serial murders but the sequence of events and locations were out of order.
The hunt boundaries of city of st. paul, also borrowed from clue 1 1965, a location not in a park.
CLUE #02
Plot your course - from here to there, employ lateral thinking
Its dark passenger, in conflict with duality
"I'll play dead" she thought, hope sinking..
She wasn't its first, "God, help me", he cried, struggling with reality
EXPLANATION: Plot your course, here to there - route, lateral thinking, duality, dark passenger: lets you know you are dealing with a serial killer, they typically live two lives while rationalizing their actions.
Denise Williams, his last victim. At one point, during her attack, she played dead in an attempt to stop being stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver, to no avail. Stephani, a devout Catholic, would struggle with remorse and control over the urge to kill
CLUE #03
She was barely past the age of a minor, but hardly a threat
"You taunt me from safe inside your crowd", a voice whispers in its ear
"My looks, they must threaten you", it said, feeling superior
A lightbulb clicked, "It's time to kill", continued the voice, the end was near, and she had no idea
EXPLANATION: Lyrics from minor threat - i'm seeing red, also the name of a podcast. Stephani's victims wore red.
Lightbulb click, feeling superior, complex and six-sided bldg.
In Energy Park neighborhood
Superior and scrambled Oneida - location of body of Kim compton was found, a red ribbon placed on trail corner near lamp post - was a red herring..
CLUE #04
From its river dwelling, wielding double arrows, encased in ice
To its large in-land sea, yielding frozen rocks
"Find me", it pleads, "Be warned, for tomorrow -- not so nice"
Make your way, watch out above! -- or you'll end up in a lead box
EXPLANATION: Stephani lived at the apartments at the location of '62 hunt - case of double arrows, packed in snow/ice. Frozen rocks - concealer for '69 hunt - hints to nearby location of victim and that this isn't hidden in a park. Make your way - route, lead box - concealer for '65 hunt - como is above you
CLUE #05
It spends its days drinking, lamenting its cursed vex
"If only I could reach out and touch someone", it confides
The nights, it hunts, serving the whispers like a hex
At twilight, 'tween spans, where crows gather, the coin hides
EXPLANATION: Reach out and touch someone - old commercial, cell phone tower at beginning of footbridge nearby, predator - hunter - leonidas
The footbridge is not lit up at night, at bridge looking down you could see a blue led spotlight shining on the med location
There are three schools in the vicinity, twilight being a popular movie/book series for tweeners - lex bridge and footbridge
Crows gather - murder/mob - syndicate
CLUE #06
It offered her a smoke and a ride home, once the music had drowned
She nervously mentioned, "I hope it's OK?", fumbling thru her purse
From a six sided bar 'cross the river she later was found
Lifeless and still, living no longer, “Listen", It calls,
"I'm sorry... but you'll need a hearse"
EXPLANATION: Hexagon bar, Barbara Simmons, Stephani's last victim - great river school playground with hexagonal and geometric shapes
CLUE #07
She looked up at it, helpless, through the water
It smiled as the light grew dim, whispering, "Danse Macabre"
Without a trace it left in the dark
To hide in a place with nowhere to park
EXPLANATION: LED light shines on location, no lights on bridge, no parking signs. a neighborhood without a park and no lights, irony.
No parking baby, no parking on the danse floor!
CLUE #08
From a phone booth near a depot and diner, again it called in its transgressions
The cops traced its call hoping to find him, but it took off in a dash.
It zigged and zagged down near the river, a PBR in hand,
"Those Pigs", he laughed, "I've schooled them!"
(perhaps you can make the connections?)
EXPLANATION: Dash - a short line - hamline-midway, zig zag - switchback style bridge, PBR - pierce butler route, connections - school, pigs - ham
WHERE IT WAS FOUND: At the end of the footbridge near the short line in the Pierce Butler Route area, behind two No Parking signs.
WHAT IT WAS FOUND IN: A skull containing a solar light, magnetized to the back of a No Parking sign. Its light shone down on a red skull marker with an ice pick through it.
WHO FOUND IT: Not yet confirmed.