The Shipping Crate Killer Strikes Again!

Over the past few moons, the ports of Eorzea have been finding peculiar packages being shipped around the region: corpses. 

Most recently, a crate with a body in it was found at Vesper Bay, but ports in Gyr Abania, La Noscea, and Dravania have also had such deliveries pass through their port. An extensive investigation has been launched by the government of Limsa Lominsa, as the preeminent naval power of the Eorzean Alliance. Security at ports provided by the Yellowjackets has increased, spot inspections by Mealvaan's Gate assessors have been made more frequently and with more rigor, and international investigators have gotten involved to help coordinate efforts between public agencies like the Grand Companies or local law enforcement and private shipping concerns and enterprises.

The bodies are believed to be victims of a serial killer, using the cover of shipping to and from Eorzean ports to obfuscate their body disposal. As such, they've gotten the not-that-imaginative moniker of Shipping Crate Killer, and the killings themselves are being called the Shipping Crate Murders.

Yellowjackets on the scene of a body discovered at Candlekeep Quay in La Noscea reported few leads in the investigation thusfar. Mealvaan's Gate has been unable to trace the crates to a common source and the international investigation has largely been a reactive one, not yet able to get ahead of the criminals. 

"We think they be a sailor," said Maelstrom Intelligence sergeant L'lanci Rahn. "This on account a the intimate knowledge of ports and shippin' lanes. But we got no leads on who. Tons of ex-pirates out there, if'n they even one of them. Could be some midshipman on the Queen Lhaminn just went rabid."

Private investigations are underway, and intermediaries are acting to laisse between them and the government criminal investigation teams. The lack of leads, though, has prompted some unrest and growing concerns. Rahn was quick to remind readers that this is still early days of the investigation, and was confident with all the various agencies working the issue it would only be a matter of time until the Shipping Crate Killer gets caught. 

"Also," she added, "for the Navigator's sake, stop callin' 'im the Shippin' Crate Killer."

The Black Chocobo Courier will continue reporting on the Shipping Crate Killer as the investigation progresses.