Sieving Through and Getting News

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We went through
hundreds,
maybe thousands,
of missing persons reports.
Nothing,
and I mean
nothing,
matched Bella's description.

When we transferred the body
over to a new coroner,
a fancier coroner,
he had confirmed that she died
from asphyxiation
with a piece of taffeta cloth
torn from her dress and shoved down her throat.
It was a sorry thing to hear.
But,
we all knew that there had been foul play.

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