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2000s: “Sometimes the news is what happens when the camera cuts away….”
The Cutaway
What you need to know before your trail
When Virginia Knightly, an investigative news producer, hears about the case of a missing woman, her journalist radar is on high alert. It’s an unusual case – Evelyn Carney was at a restaurant with her husband before running out in distress. She hasn’t been seen since and the trail has gone cold. There’s plenty of opinions as to what could have happened but no proof of anything. So Virginia vows to get to the heart of the case and really find out just what could have happened. She knows she has a story to tell, but will Washington, a city known for its secrets disappearing, be ready to reveal them. And just what is going to be Virginia’s new headline?
Travel Guide
Washington DC
Evelyn Carney goes out for a walk from a restaurant here and then disappears. She lives on a street of “two-story row houses with trimmed yards and gravel-lined driveways disappearing into alleys behind the houses. Thick black bars over basement windows… to the east, the distant wail of police sirens. Here the neighborhood seemed to hold its breath.”
Georgetown
Georgetown? No one went missing from Georgetown. Now with police officers standing sentinel every couple of blocks, protecting the expensive houses and trendy restaurants and upscale shops
Capitol Hill
Just to the east of the political and government side of the city – it’s the largest historical neighborhood in the city. The buzz of the newsrooms is clear – journalists vie for the next best story – the click of the cameras and the excitement of being the next station to break the next big story is the thrill that everyone here is chasing. “A super anchor if truth be told, as damn near celebrity as you could get in Washington”
The trail of clues around the city…
The trail to find the woman is clever and gives a tour of the city at the same time albeit a macabre one at times:
Locations : Community Center, Rock Creek Park
Police task force meets community leaders, re: sex assaults of female joggers in park. Latest victim, twenty-year-old Susan Wilkes of New DC, died from injuries
It’s in this more rural side of town that Bradley Harnett lives in the Kennedy -Warren a condominium wedged between Connecticut Avenue and Rock Creek OPark and to its south the National Zoo. The tigers and wolves in Washington’s political corridors and newsrooms are not just the only animals in this city
Streetview Maps
A) Washington DC - Capitol
B) Washington DC - Wisconsin Ave NW
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Cutaway
Author/Guide: Ms Christina Kovac Destination: Washington DC Departure Time: 2000s
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