For me the suspicious parts are the fractured skull and the young man insisting it's suicide.
Regardless,the universal dark underbellies of quaint small towns ask not for era nor geography.

A young girl goes missing after attending choir rehearsal with her unrequited (?) crush. The guy claims she was sucidal.A few weeks later the workers of the hydroelectricity plant find her body in the river during routine maintenance. Not sure if any meaningful investigation was ever conducted.

Been rewatching Twin Peaks for obvious reasons and I can't help but think of this very Lynchian story I stumbled upon a few months ago,after my grandmother died.I skimmed through the local newspaper from the week of her birth in nov.1928 and there it suddenly was,this very Laura Palmer setup...

Did that stupid Google Maps trend and of course it crushed my damn heart. Somewhere in 2013,on a hot summer day my grandparents are still alive and I bet my grandfather has checked the thermometer outside the bedroom window this morning...