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Every Confessd case, spoiler-free: where it happened, what happened and who is in the room. Who lied, you find out by playing.
Meeting room behind the ballroom, pageant sashes piled up, the audience screaming on the other side of the wall.
Hotel Maharlika, Manila, 9:40 pm. The final of the Binibining Perlas pageant. The Perla ng Silangan crown, made of gold and South Sea pearls, has vanished from the backstage display case.
Marisol VillanuevaFavorite contestant, 24
Jericho BautistaPageant choreographer, 38
Corazon LacsonPageant organizer, 56
The lab's meeting room, a whiteboard full of formulas, the hum of the freezers behind the wall.
Hale Lab, 5th floor of a biotech institute in Boston, 6:10 am. Postdoc Lakshmi Iyer opened the -80 °C freezer and found slot 7 of the rack empty.
Desmond HaleLab director, 58
Lakshmi IyerPostdoc, 31
Nelson BarrosJanitor, 52
The castle library, a low fire in the hearth, old tapestries and paper bats from the party still hanging from the ceiling.
Vlădescu Castle, in the Carpathians, Transylvania, night of October 31, 11:25 pm. Constantin Vlădescu, the castle's owner, was found dead in the study at the top of the tower, struck on the head with an iron candlestick.
Ilinca VlădescuThe host's niece, 29
Grigore MunteanuThe castle's butler, 61
Radu IonescuActor hired to play Dracula, 38
The archaeological station's lab in Hanga Roa, stacked boxes of samples, an old fan turning.
Rano Raraku quarry, Easter Island, 8:40 pm. Chilean archaeologist Tomás Riquelme, 61, was found dead at the foot of an unfinished moai by a park ranger on the night patrol.
Liesel BrandtGerman archaeologist, Tomás's rival, 48
Hotu PakaratiRapa Nui guide and watchman at the quarry entrance, 35
Rowan PrescottAustralian documentary photographer, 39
The stadium press room, empty chairs facing the backdrop with the club crest, the floodlit pitch behind the glass.
Castellana Stadium, Madrid, 10:40 pm, the night before the cup final. On his night round, the security guard found the display case in the exhibition room empty.
Anselmo BarriosClub kit man, 61
Pilar ArrietaSports journalist, 38
Tobías MerinoFootball agent, 45