The Investigators, Inc. Mountain Cabin Murder Mystery. Chapter 10. No Trust.

It’s a good thing the Black Wolves have a number of big, strong men in their team, they found a lot of gold and silver which was rather heavy to carry. Alfred estimated the gold to be worth more than the cash they found. The gems and jewelry was worth about 5 million pounds he said and all but some of the diamonds were stolen, which made sense. These people have their hands in a lot of different things. The next day there was a knock at someone’s door and a young teen girl answered. A woman asked to talk with her parents but the girl said they were not at home, both were at work.

The woman asked when they would be home and the girl said she didn’t know since they often worked late. The woman said she would come in and wait but the girl tried to close the door, unsuccessfully. Then the girl tried to run away, but she was caught by the woman who then called to her friends outside and they also came in. “You can’t do this,” yelled the girl, “I’ll call the police!” She attempted to pick up her phone but the woman grabbed it from her. “We know your parents are not really your parents,” said the woman, “and you are in serious trouble.”

“So what?” she asked, “The police can’t do much to me, I’m only 16.” “A 16 year old can be murdered just as easily as an adult,” said the woman, “many teens your age and younger children too have been murdered by your fake parents and their friends. Once your usefulness to them is over, then you will also be murdered.” “Right, I don’t believe you lady!” she exclaimed, “These are my real parents, I’m not adopted.”

“You’re right about not being adopted,” said the woman, “but you were kidnapped at the age of 4 and raised as their daughter so they could use you for sex videos, for thefts and for delivering drugs and also for talking to a group of private investigators, telling them they would die in the death room that they had been trapped in out at a mountain mansion.” “You can’t prove any of that,” she said confidently. The woman then opened a laptop she had with her and took her to a porn site. “That’s me and my little brother Matthew!” the girl gasped, “Dad said that was only for our own family to watch!”

“We have also matched your voice to the voice heard in that death room,” said the woman, “and you have beaten 2 young girls of parents who had gotten behind on their blackmail payments.” She then showed the girl paperwork from her Dad which proved he used her to do that. “Dad said those people were blackmailing him,” said the girl who was now crying, “are you going to arrest me and send me to jail?” “Well, that depends on you Kayla,” said Ivy.

Meanwhile, back with us. Aari sent me some of the paperwork he had found in Mr. Frazer’s office and it was very interesting reading, though I really wished it wasn’t true. I communicated with Kat the information that we now had and told her to search the entire cellar of that mansion, but not to go in the death room except through a different entrance. I told her how to find that one. I imagine our 3 prisoners are getting rather hungry about now, although we did leave them with a little food and water. But we did have to keep their handcuffs on so they couldn’t escape.

I told her to give shovels to the prisoners so they could do some digging for us. The teams had found all the remaining listening devices and cameras and had destroyed them. Carine sure helped in picking up conversations from our parents group which helped us locate all of them. We knew of six, but there were 10 altogether.

Now, back with Ivy and the Wildcats. “Very well done Kayla,” said Ivy, “we will soon find out what happens next.” Back at the office of Mr. Frazer the men of the remaining parents group stopped by for a visit. “Well, what brings you men around for a visit?” asked Mr. Frazer. “We were doing some thinking,” said one man, “it sure seems odd that these Black Wolves came around when they did. They seemed to know exactly what they were looking for too.” “Yes, I quite agree with you,” said Frazer, “it was rather odd. Sheila, my secretary, and I were talking about that this morning, weren’t we dear?”

“Yes, we just don’t understand it at all,” she said and she went back to the outer office. “Why don’t you open your safe for us Frazer,” said another man. “Why?” he asked, “There’s nothing left, they cleaned me out too, I already told you that.” “Then you won’t mind if we look,” said a third man. “Fine, but it sounds like you’re accusing me of some wrong doing here,” he said indignantly as he opened his safe for them, “look for yourself.” He then stepped back and one of them looked inside. “See, what did I tell you?” said Frazer. The man then pushed a button revealing the bottom safe.

“How come we never knew about that safe Frazer?” the man asked. “Well, that one is just for office papers, nothing else,” he said, “and they took everything from there too.” “Open it Frazer,” said the man. “But I told you it’s empty,” he said, “what is this anyway?” The other men took out their guns and Frazer was told again to open the safe. “Okay, okay, but I have to turn off the alarm first or the police will arrive,” he said. They let him do so and suddenly two men showed up from behind a wall panel and began shooting, killing the other men.

Frazer then quickly opened the safe and sure enough, all the gold, silver and drugs were in there. “I don’t understand it,” said Frazer, “but let’s take it and run while we have time. It will take us a few trips to get all this gold out of here.” But, as Frazer put the first gold bars on his desk he noticed the police standing there. “You won’t be going anywhere except to prison Mr. Frazer,” said the police captain. The wives of the men were arrested, along with Sheila and all of the children were taken into custody as well, except for Kayla, she was left in the custody of Ivy for now.

Out at the mountain mansion they found the graves of several children. After finding one grave we called the police to take over. Rossana had told the police about the murders of the first two girls but was able to keep things quiet until we could uncover the whole gang and what they were doing. She said we were working under her direction to expose this gang and put a stop to what they were doing. That kept us safe for a while. But this isn’t quite over yet…

To Be Continued. ©2026 Steve McLeod.