AfterNet 01 - Good Cop Dead Cop

church doesn’t believe in it and I don’t believe in it so just stop tyring to contact me. Don’t email ever again.
    “She turned off new comments and hasn’t updated it since,” Munroe said.
    Yamaguchi let out a small sigh. “Oh, God, that’s really sad. Someone pretended to be her parents.”
    “Again, not quite. I found this on the Forgive and Forget forum on the AfterNet.”
Dearest Peg,
Your mother and I love you so much. Please, please respond. We were wrong about the afterlife. It’s obviously not heaven but your Mom has no pain, no suffering and I can think clearly again. Maybe we’re not ready for heaven yet. Maybe God has other plans for us, like looking after our little girl. Please let us into your life. We watch over you and see that you’ve made questionable choices after we left you. Let us give you that love and understanding and help put you back on the path.
    The username on the posting was Joshua.E.Duggan. “It’s a certified identity,” Feore said.
    “He filed one before he died,” she said.
    “I found the website for his nursing home,” Munroe said. “They strongly encourage every patient to file a certificate. I guess he filed one before the Alzheimer’s got too bad. I also found a username for her mother. She doesn’t have a certified identity, but I found a posting in Lost Love where Joshua met a woman claiming to be his wife. Obviously he accepted her.”
    Feore and Yamaguchi both sat back, looking stunned. Feore said, “You said she had other blogs.”
    “Yeah, right here. She started this one last year.”
God is not testing the faithful. He wants to challenge our commitment. He wants to see if we can recognize Satan in his works, or if we will be dissuaded from the true path that is the word of God.
That path does not lie with the mealy mouthed protestations of collaborators who embrace the legions of Satan’s demons. If they fail to recognize the threat posed by these false voices who claim to be the souls of those who have gone before, then it is up to those of us who heed God’s call to expose them for what they are.
And it is not enough for us to stand idly by and merely protest. It is up to us to act and expose these vile creatures for what they are.
    “Wow, that’s a little nuts,” Feore said.
    “I agree, but it’s hardly proof of anything,” she said.
    “I know, but take a look at this. Google found this as a forum posting. A website called ‘Recognize Satan.’ The posting’s been deleted, but it’s still in Google’s cache.”
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    “So, how do you know it’s her,” she asked, “other than some similar wording?”
    “It’s another thing we can’t prove,” he admitted, “but the username of the person who posted this is magdalene, which is also the username Duggan used for her personal blog. And I found the same avatar in this posting and at her blog: a jpeg of a painting of Mary Magdalene by Bernardino Luini. I’ve found a lot of postings at a lot of forums similar to this by a user named magdalene and the exact same avatar. The same dimensions, the same file size and cropped identically.”
    “What’s the stuff about the plans?” she asked.
    “Woodworking plans, an exploded view of a simple box. Basically, a cubic foot box with a simple sliding shutter.”
    “And you think those are for capturing the dead?” Feore asked.
    “Or rabbits. It’s not as if it’s labeled ‘Disembodied Trap Plans.’ They’re just specific about the dimensions because they’re designed to be stacked. Bob, I sent you an email. Can you get it and open the attachment?”
    Feore went to his email and found it. In a few seconds, they were looking at a spreadsheet.
    “All right, I admit that what we’re looking at isn’t really statistically significant. I visited as many forums and Twitter postings and chat rooms as I could. Bob, being on the Internet backbone is a little addictive. Anyway, I tried to find as many mentions as I could of someone missing an appointment, have you seen so and so, whatever happened to. Then I tried to find the last time these missing people were recorded as