May 2, 2020: Short order cook Delma Black disappears
after leaving work at the Eastern Diner in a mixed
business/residential district near the city’s downtown
core.
May 5, 2020: Landlady Roberta Warren complains
to a tenant in her nearby building of strange smells
emanating from her apartment. The tenant, Waldo
Maclagan, responds rudely, but the smells soon cease
and Warren thinks nothing further of it.
May 17, 2020: Residents of 37 Aldwych Crescent,
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Zadovsky, report prowler activity
in their backyard. Police respond an hour later, find
footprints in the garden, but no sign of an intruder.
Aldwych Crescent is part of a swank residential
neighborhood.
May 19, 2020: Investment banker Morgan Cook, late to
a dinner party at 37 Aldwych, calls police to report signs
of a break-in. The Zadovskys and two other guests,
Bill Thorley and Kika Bard, are missing. Blood spatter
and evidence of concussion beam activity are found at
the scene. The words END OF TIME are scrawled on
a wall in a blood, along with a strange symbol like a
devouring happy face.
May 31, 2020: Roberta Warren finds that Maclagan has
abandoned his apartment, after leaving it spotlessly
cleaned.
June 3, 2020: A box delivered to the city’s top-rated
TV news broadcast contains the left hand of Julius
Zadovsky, along with video of the torture-murder of
Kika Bard.
June 7, 2020: Jeweler Amandine Warren is accosted
while jogging not far from Aldwych Crescent by a man
in a van, who appears to be wearing a mask. She flees
to a neighbor’s yard; the van pursues but is stopped by
a fence in front of 140 Northcote Rd.
June 12, 2020: Courier Bernard Leichter goes missing
while his delivery vehicle idles in front of an office
tower.
June 14, 2020: In a message uploaded to a video
sharing site, a masked individual calling himself the
Anthrophage claims responsibility for the murders of
Julius and Deann Zadovksy, Bill Thorley, and Bernard
Leichter. His voice is electronically distorted.
July 16, 2020: A maid shows up for work at 140
Northcote Road (site of Amandine Warren’s escape)
to find the front door open and residents Bart (42),
Colleen (36), Emily (12) and Caden Guest (7) all
missing. Signs of concussion beam use are found at
the scene. Again a message is scrawled on the wall
(DOOM EVER CLOSER) along with the devouring happy
face character.
July 28, 2020: In a second Anthrophage video, the
masked man claims to have eaten portions of his
victims and proclaims himself the “harbinger of a new
apocalypse.” He calls on his fellow mutants to rise up
and devour the non-enhanced.
July 29, 2020: In three separate incidents, suspected
mutants are attacked by mobs. In each case, instigators
of the incident believed them to be the Anthrophage.
All are subsequently cleared.
July – August: Atmosphere of fear breeds a string
of violent incidents throughout the city. Businesses
close early. Tourism plummets. Retired policeman are
recalled to active duty to boost patrols.
Aug 9, 2020: Real estate broker Joanna Painter is reported missing by her husband Brennan after failing
to return from a home showing.
Aug 12, 2020: In a third video, the Anthrophage briefly
tastes a plate of pasta, then says, “Mmm, tastes like
real estate agent.” He then announces that he intends
to “move up the food chain to someone everyone has
heard of.”
Aug 17, 2020: Enhanced bodyguards of Dr. Lucius
Quade spot a masked prowler on the grounds of his
estate. They give chase; he eludes them, but one of
them, Annice “Ebony Avenger” Beedell, reads his
mind, seeing a cinderblock building obscured by willow
trees.
Aug 18, 2020: A police sketch artist’s rendition of the
scene caught by Beedell is broadcast to the media.
Aug 19, 2020: An incoherent, possibly intoxicated
Anthrophage appears in a final video, denying that he
ever consumed the flesh of his victims, and offering a
year-long truce if police stop looking for him.
Aug 20, 2020: An anonymous tip identifies the building
in the sketch as occupying a small lot in a rural area
twenty miles from the city. State and local police
coordinate a raid on the property, apprehending
Waldo Maclagan. He injures several officers with his
concussion powers before being subdued by a water
blast.
Aug 21, 2020: Maclagan denies being the Anthrophage,
despite the discovery of partial human remains on his
property.
In the weeks that follow, forensic scientists match
body parts found on his property to the Zadovskys, Bill
Thorley, and three members of the Guest family.
Sept 17, 2020: Maclagan requests a new interview
with police, and confesses to the six murders that can
be directly tied to him by forensic evidence. He does
not confess to other disappearances clearly connected
to those crimes.
Apr 4, 2020: Maclagan is convicted of the killings
mentioned in his confession and sentenced to life in
prison without possibility of parole. The Painter, Black
and Leichtner murders remain technically open but
are no longer actively pursued. Maclagan begins his
sentence at the Kane Correctional Facility, isolated
from the general population.
Oct 23, 2022: In a television interview with television
reporter Tod Stahl, Maclagan recants his confession.
Feb 26, 2023: Maclagan is stabbed to death by
fellow inmate Leonard Wayne Lennard.
Feb 28, 2023: Lennard confesses to the murder,
claiming that he won Maclagan’s trust over a period
of months, “until he knew everything about him,” then
got close enough to him to shank him with a melted
tooth brush.
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