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61. Kept the only master key to the bell tower. Known to carry theological conviction to extremes — former parishioners in his previous posting in Brockton describe a priest who 'chose doctrine over people' during a contentious period in the early 2010s. Was at the church the evening before Penn was found; his car was spotted on Brendan Hill at 10:40 PM by a neighbor walking a dog. Has never publicly explained what he was doing there.

54. Found the body. Took a photograph before calling anyone — she says it was reflex, that she documents everything for the parish records. Has an encyclopedic knowledge of the tunnel system beneath the church from decades of managing the building. Changed her account of her arrival time twice in the first week: initially said 7:15 AM, then 6:50 AM, then settled on 7:05 AM. Claims the discrepancy is nerves.

49. Penn visited the Caldmere Public Library twice in the four days before his death, requesting local history materials and the 1970s-era survey of the church tunnel system. Maren Falk pulled those materials personally and signed the retrieval log. A genealogy project she pursued for eighteen months — ostensibly tracing Caldmere's founding families — was later found to contain extensive cross-referenced notes on Covenant of the First Stone membership patterns in New England coastal towns. She describes it as 'background research for a local history presentation.'

48. Processed Penn's remains under the unclaimed protocol. Normally, unclaimed remains in Caldmere are held for ninety days before disposition. Penn's were cremated after thirty-one days — a full two months early — on a form signed by Nate Driscoll citing a 'facility storage capacity emergency.' No such emergency appears in any other Tidewater records from that period. The canvas bag from Penn's rented room was logged into Tidewater's personal effects storage and remained there, unopened, for over two years.

27. Managed the library's security camera system. Footage from the two days surrounding Penn's library visits was overwritten on a non-standard schedule — the library's system retains footage for 14 days as a default, but the relevant files show only 48 hours of retention. Casey Wright adjusted the retention settings two weeks before Penn arrived in Caldmere. Claims it was a routine storage optimization. Has a prior address in Gloucester — the same city listed on Penn's intake form — from two years before arriving in Caldmere.