Crime stories told through the case file
These crime stories come as evidence, not chapters. Witness statements, scene examination reports, call transcripts, internal emails and text messages, each dated and in order. Nobody tells you who did it. You read the file and decide for yourself.
Every story on Fictra is free to read and written by a real person.
Featured: Verdant (crime mystery)
A police investigation into a domestic services company uncovers a pattern of stalking, coercion and tech-enabled interference in people's lives. Start with The Cleaner: a cleaner discovers the weekly instructions she's been following in a missing woman's house weren't just cleaning tasks. Her witness statement opens the file.
Five strands so far: The Cleaner, The Teaching Assistant, The Nanny, The Safe Place and The Feed.
Disclosures · told through found documents
- The CleanerA cleaner discovers the weekly instructions she’s been following in a missing woman’s house weren’t just cleaning tasksVerdant · 16 documents · about 20 min
- The Teaching AssistantA nine-year-old girl becomes increasingly distressed as subtle changes at school begin to isolate her from her friends.Verdant · 10 documents · about 11 min
- The NannyA live-in nanny starts experiencing unsettling incidents in a smart home where the technology never seems to behave quite as it should.Verdant · 15 documents · about 12 min
- The Safe PlaceA woman keeps taking in parcels for the neighbour across the landing, until she starts to wonder why they never arrive at his door.Verdant · 10 documents · about 7 min
- The FeedA security guard begins noticing strange discrepancies in the CCTV feed.Verdant · 9 documents · about 3 min
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