BEAUMONT MANOR — CHRISTMAS EVE COLD CASE (2004)

COLD CASE REOPENED 2026 // CRIME: FRIDAY, 24 DEC 2004

🏛️ Beaumont Manor: The Forensic Protagonist

An English Gothic estate isolated in a Class 4 blizzard (-14°C). The crime scene, the architectural blueprint, and the official cold case epilogue.

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❄️ Beaumont Manor Facade // Class 4 Blizzard Isolation

OFFICIAL DOSSIER

The Cold Case File: Beaumont Manor (2004)

Original inquiry: North Yorkshire Police (2004) // Reopened by Scotland Yard Cold Case Review Unit (2026) // Case Ref: #2004-XMAS

For twenty-two years, the Christmas Eve murder of Genevieve Beaumont (68) has been an unsolved file. Her heirs have kept Beaumont Manor sealed under court order, untouched since the night the police left. In 2026, at the request of North Yorkshire Police, the sealed evidence boxes were opened and every exhibit was re-examined with modern forensics. The file is now yours.

On Friday, December 24, 2004, at 9:30 PM, a Class 4 blizzard cut Blackwood Valley off from the world: no road, no mobile signal, and the manor's main telephone line down. At precisely 10:05 PM, the original Victorian dynamo failed and the whole estate fell into pitch darkness. When the lamps were lit again, the matriarch and antique collector was found dead in her private study beside the great stone hearth. Six people had shared her Christmas Eve dinner. One of them is a killer.

Genevieve never modernised Beaumont Manor: a steam boiler, a Victorian dynamo, a private magneto telephone. Every machine in the house kept a record of that night. Your task is to read them.

✝️ DECEASED // PRIMARY VICTIM DOSSIER SCOTLAND YARD #2004-XMAS

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✝ DECEASED

Genevieve Beaumont (Age 68)

Manor Matriarch & Antique Collector

🏰 The Manor Estate Explorer

Beaumont Manor has been sealed since Christmas Eve 2004, exactly as the police left it. Explore the floor plan, select room pins, and inspect the rooms and exhibits re-photographed by the Cold Case Review Unit.

ARCHITECTURAL FLOOR PLAN // BEAUMONT MANOR (2004) Estate Architectural Floor Plan

🔍 ROOM SURVEILLANCE & EVIDENCE

GATHERING HALL 🔍 4.5× Zoom

Grand Hall

🔥 Roaring Hearth & Gale Winds Outside

The cavernous central hall with an imposing limestone hearth, family portraits, and sweeping staircase. Here, at 9:30 PM, Genevieve Beaumont announced her contentious new will to all gathered guests before retiring upstairs.

Forensic Items Uncovered in this Room:

📌 Suspect Deductive Cross-Off Board

Examine the dossiers of all six individuals present at Beaumont Manor on Friday, December 24, 2004 (Christmas Eve). Scrutinize their declared alibis against physical clues, stamp their statuses, or confront them directly.

⏱ Forensic Timeline Reconstruction

Scrub through the night of Friday, December 24, 2004 (Christmas Eve), or step back to the 8:00 PM dinner with Previous Event. Pay close attention to the 10:05 PM blackout and to the exact minute of the blow, which the autopsy dossier in the Prologue gives you.

🔎 HOW TO USE THE FORENSIC TIMELINE (DEDUCTION KEY)

Genevieve Beaumont was murdered shortly after a total power blackout struck at 10:05 PM. The pathologist can only bracket the death between 10:00 PM and 10:25 PM; the autopsy dossier in the Prologue gives the exact minute of the blow. Use the scrubber slider or Play Reel ⏯ to follow the night. The tracker below shows where each person claims to have been, or was seen, at that moment. Prove or disprove each account with the exhibits, then stamp the Suspects board.

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22:05 PM (10:05 PM)

⚡ Manor Electrical Dynamo Shorted — Total Blackout

⚡ 10:05 PM BLACKOUT

⚠️ CRITICAL DEATH WINDOW (10:00 - 10:25 PM)

🕵️ WHEREABOUTS — AS CLAIMED OR WITNESSED CORRELATION SCAN

🔬 Forensic Evidence Vault

Examine the fourteen exhibits from the sealed 2004 evidence boxes, re-examined by the Scotland Yard Cold Case Review Unit. Inspect high-resolution macro details and connect proof to the indictment.

⚖️ Scotland Yard Indictment Hall

Submit your formal case dossier to the Crown Prosecution Service. Select the primary culprit, specify the exact murder mechanism, cite between three and six items of evidence, and uncover the final verdict.