Part 1 and Part 2

Lots to update you on today as we dive deeper in to the rabbit hole. Today is tight for time so I won’t go into the psychological details I normally do and just hit you with the chain of events that continues to unravel!

We followed the instructions from yesterday’s letter, made the best chick replica we could and placed it in the dryer as instructed.

Already there was a letter with our next clue.

We quickly found the 3rd floor light box, but there was nothing there!

We didn’t have any M&M’s yet (as the instructions told us we needed) so Melissa picked some peanut ones up today. Her idea was to booby trap the wrapper with sparkles that would get all over the culprits hands, incriminating them (have you ever tried to get sparkles off of yourself? Borderline impossible!). As she went to set her trap, she found 2 pics of the chick situated in one of the trebuchets from the activities during Medieval Week along with another bag of M&M’s!

And also earlier today, Melissa found this in the Café!

How bizarre! It seems to be the remnants of a stolen chick if you ask me…

So Melissa meticulously checked people’s hands throughout the day, seeing if any sparkles could be found. No luck. She decided to check back at the light box and found these…

The kidnapper knew enough to not grab the candy unprotected, soiling the gloves and not their hands. Now these aren’t just any ordinary gloves. These were specifically from the goodies bag at the Canadian Museum Association National Conference. This narrows things down quite considerably if you ask me. But I’ll get in to my new number one subject in a little bit.

Melissa then found 3 peanut M&M’s on her chair with no witnesses as to who deposited it.

And the last bombshell – Sarah’s most recent fonts used in Word on her computer seemed to match the specific fonts used in the letters from the kidnapper!

My gut reaction says that it’s a smokescreen. I would be SUPER surprised if Sarah was the mastermind behind this. In fact, I now have a new number one suspect: CEO of THEMUSEUM, David Marksell. Only he is diabolical enough to develop such an insidious and complex scheme. Many have suspected him, but determined that he’s way too busy to pull this off. However, we’re starting to suspect he has someone who’s executing his wishes…an Executive Assistant perhaps, like Chantelle. She would be so under the radar no one would suspect her. But we have no hard evidence on either of them. Truthfully, there’s no hard evidence on anyone but Meaghan and Sarah but it would be very surprising that they would stoop this low. At the same time, it’s always the ones you least suspect. No, only a criminal genius like Marskell could mastermind such a plan. Well at least that’s where I’m placing my chips today. But I haven’t stuck with one suspect through this whole mystery so I’m sure I’ll change tomorrow!

I must admit...I'm terribly confused. I'm definitely no Batman to this kidnapper's Joker. And to reiterate, this isn't some idea hatched internally to put out some cool content or a marketing scheme...someone is really doing this here and I am determined to figure out. I think I need your help and would love any guesses, hints, hunches, intuitions or random accusations. Just let us know on Facebook or Twitter!