Write a statement to the police from the casual acquaintance and neighbor of a paranormal investigator. The investigator, named Audrey Lipsky, has recently gone missing.
Well, I wouldn't say I knew Audrey, really. I said hello to her after I moved in about seven months ago. I was saying hi to everyone on the block. Just being neighborly.
She seemed really surprised to find me at her door. She was pretty suspicious of my motives too, even with my gift basket in my hand. No, I don't think she was fearing for her life. Well, I don't know, really, but it didn't strike me as due to someone being after her. She just seemed really suspicious of other people and high-strung in general.
I didn't go any farther into her place than the parlor, but I did spot a lot of kooky stuff laying around. What I guess people would call supernatural or occult artifacts. The kind of stuff you'd find at, like, Ripley's Believe It Or Not. I asked if she was a fortune teller or something, and she looked at me like I was crazy. She was a paranormal investigator, is what she said.
No, I don't really know anything about her work. She didn't talk about that stuff. I want to point out that I didn't really talk to her much at all. I just tried to be neighborly, just as I did with anyone else who lived on this street. So I'd drag in her trash bins if she forgot to and left them out, that kind of thing.
We were friendly, but I'm not sure if we were friends. I'm not sure she had any friends, to tell you the truth. I never saw her get any other visitors.
