The smoking gun that the internet conspiracy theorists needed had finally been produced. Strangely though, only a few hours after Murkin posted his account online he mysteriously disappeared. The natural assumption among the few thousand who had read his entry was that the government had intercepted his messages and made him disappear, but the truth of the matter was a little more compelling.
The powers that be were content on allowing Murkin's posts to go unchecked because they realized that any involvement in censoring his story would reveal their guilt. Further, one persons tale of being present while a forced occupation took place could easily be disregarded as an attention seeking work of fiction. The official stance was that Murkin's account was just another yarn spun by another whack job attempting to "blame the government" for the inconvenient circumstances of their life. So Who then was responsible for silencing Murkin? who besides the government had anything to lose if the information got out about their involvement in the plague? The answer was no one.
After a few weeks of silence one of the members of a message board called ZOMB-USA sent an email to Murkin's parents asking them to check in on him. When Murk's parents arrived at his apartment they were surprised to find everything in its right place. There were no signs of struggle but there were also no signs that anyone had been living there recently. When Murk's dad investigated his closet he noticed that some of the luggage they had bought for their son many years ago was missing. He also noticed that a few bald hangers were hastily tossed in the clothes bin inside his closet.
Murk's mother however was responsible for the biggest find by far. After a little noodling with his computer password she was able to figure out that the code was the name of his favorite movie spelled backwards. Once inside she looked up his internet search history which linked to a message board inbox containing a single personal message.
