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Here's the list as far as we've been able to piece it together this week. Mind you, every time I think I've got them all, WWN reports another. Or The Prophet.

Speaking of which, we've picked up a good informant at the paper this week. Bloke called Cornelius Verbosen, and he's got good ties to the news staff at WWN. Anywiz, Verbosen works the crime desk and has press access to Buckingham, which I think means he gets briefings from Ptolemy Baddock, so there're definitely controls on what he finds out, but he makes it sound as if he's got other people who sometimes talk to him off the record. Could, of course, be a plant, feeding us information, but most of what he's given me here checks out with our other sources. Some of it's unique to him, but we don't have a good way to get confirmation for some of these reports because of location or DEMLE involvement.

* Cadmus Mulciber former head of MLE (replaced by Crouch; now replaced by L S-P). Crouch killed Mulciber during a debriefing at Buckingham following Fradswell. Malfoy heard someone at the Elysian say it was for making a stupid joke about Dolohov's having lost his illusions.
* Philip and Victoriana Greengrass. Pretty sure Crouch killed them because they were collaborators with the Order and because Philip, was Admin of Fradswell Camp and gave control over to the Order, so in Crouch's view he was responsible for Dolohov's death. (They were killed in Brighton at Alexandra Greengrass's home--Daphne's grandmother. She was elsewhere, luckily. No one's heard yet from Astoria and Queenie, but they may have been with other relatives.)
* Athena Belby, opera singer, Crouch's ex. Sources say she'd been rude about his relationship with Dolohov, including giving unattributed statements to various gossip mags. Told Whirl the adoption was a 'polite fiction'.
* Ephraim and Christophanus Clarriker, father and son. Clarriker was co-owner of Folkestone Ferriers with Lucius Malfoy as silent partner. Crouch must have had some evidence that Clarriker was collaborating with the Order. We think DEMLE have been investigating whether he had a hand in our takeover of Dover. Christophanus would've been a 7th year at Hogwarts. A Hufflepuff.
* Barnabus Cuffe, editor-in-chief of The Daily Prophet. Killed at home overnight. Nobody knows if it was personal with Crouch, or whether it had to do with how the Prophet reported Fradswell, or something else.
* All of the staff of Whirl magazine. Iris Kepke, editor; Sophia Novello, Tartarus Kendall, Oreille Kreswell, Splendiferus Grey, and Macrella Fulsome, reporters; Madge Gobble, finance; Nuntius Spindle, security. The killings occured at half-nine, just after the magazine's weekly staff meeting began. According to Verbosen, this scene looked more quickly done than the others in Crouch's spree, but he'd still marked the cardinal points (east, south, west, north) in owl's blood, put a galleon under the victims' tongues, and laid out one body--Sophia Novello's--head to the east. (Sophia Novello wasn't just a reporter; she was in the scene, too; a regular New London It-Witch who was always at society functions and throwing parties that you couldn't get invited to unless you were all that. We understand that Crouch had had words with Kepke, the editor, but that was a while ago. Maybe a year or more ago. Anywiz, there were 8 staff members there, and he killed them all, including the security wizard, but Verbosen says they had security onsite to keep hacked-off society folk from storming the place after the magazine publicised their affairs and other scandals--not because they expected anyone to come assassinate them all. And even if they'd had better security, Crouch was prepared: he disabled the panic alarms they had, threw up a containment ward to prevent any of them from escaping by doors or windows, and put up anti-apparition wards before he started. There were signs people did try to get out or hide, but obviously that didn't help them.
* Rawlings and Thalia Powell who lived at Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Surrey. Discovered dead at noon on Monday, 3 August. (Time of death not certain.) Names were withheld by the NL press, 'pending notification of kin', but Verbosen says that when they finally got that info out of DEMLE, the story had moved on, so I guess they were never named at all in the press. (Lee's got them on the list he's going to read, though, so we'll remember them, at least.) Hatchlands Park is a big manor home. Our sources say Powell got it for some kind of favours to the Protectorate five or six years ago. Couldn't find out what that was about, but maybe it's got something to do with why Crouch had them on his list.
* Emma Lamont. So far as we can tell, the WWN and Prophet never got this report. DEMLE may not know about it, either.
* Oliprance Robards, his wife Procerity (Chillicotte) and their two kids called Hap and Florinda. And a Muggleborn servant. We haven't been able to find out his name. The Protectorate press wasn't saying who these people were, either (just calling them a 'family of five in Wiltshire'), but they were having a rough time keeping up with Crouch's pace. Turns out Robards was Crouch's mother's cousin.
* The Southcran family in Folkestone, Wirt, Violet and their daughter, Aster. They ran a cafe and lived above their shop. They’d been dead at least a day before a delivery person found them late Monday afternoon. Said the shop had been open but unstaffed all day. He'd stopped in twice before he tried going up to the flat. There was money left on the counter along with a dirty plate and soup bowl. The press reported all the details on this one except the names, but they really latched onto the fact there was a toddler and that the wands were snapped and left in the bin. That was the first time they got that detail about all the scenes.
* Ganymede Bobolis, editor of Londinarium. Was in a relationship with Regulus Black for a while. Nobody seems sure why Crouch went after him.
* Aoife and Aislin Drumgoole, 35-year-old twins: Aoife waited tables at White’s and had one child, a four-year-old called Siren, who was also a victim. Report on her is she was Maebh Drumgoole’s arty younger sister; guess she was a singer and a poet, too. The other twin, Aislin was assistant editor at the Prophet. Neither one was married (no one seems to know who the kid's father is). Anywiz, they shared a flat in Hatton Gardens. Thing one of our sources pointed out is how much they looked like Maebh. I've seen pictures, and that's definitely a thing.
* Annetta Rickett, member of the Hogwarts Board of Governors. Loads of speculation about why Crouch killed her. She voted to sack Dolohov, for one thing. Her death was reported to us and the Protectorate press was really slow to get wind of it. (And when they did, they made a meal of the fact she was a halfblood.)
* Josiah Peakes, who was head of the Hogwarts Board of Governors. He was always on the safe side of everything that came up for a vote, but I reckon Council politics was complicated enough that didn't keep him safe. I hear he made himself obnoxious to Dolohov and Crouch over the years. And he was head of the Board and the Board sacked Dovs, so it could've been that.
* Mariposa Poddington, who was Narcissa Malfoy's assistant at Witch Weekly.
* Hannah Abbott's family in Godric's Hollow. Protectorate-side reports have been speculating that Crouch killed them because they were halfbloods who were artificially elevated to purity after Carrow killed Hannah. We've got another theory, though. Brindl and I went out to Godric's Hollow because, well, it's where Harry was from and we thought that was worth looking into. Anywiz, we found something (well, two things, actually) that Buckingham was maybe sitting on (assume DEMLE found it, too, because it looked as if someone'd tried to vanish it): just outside the bounds of the fidelius around the Potters' house, there's a message carved into the walk. It's the same thing Crouch put beside loads of the bodies: 'The dove always dies'. Anywiz, our theory is one of the Abbotts saw him there and he saw them, so he went to theirs and killed all four of them.
* Bathilda Bagshot. So this is the other thing we found when we went poking around Godric's Hollow. We tried taking a reading on Crouch from the residue in the walk outside the Potters', and it pointed us to this other old cottage, not just to the Abbotts'. And when we got inside, we could tell there'd been a dead body in there. One that'd been dead a long time. There was a big stain on the carpet and it reeked. Seriously, it stank like the body was still there, only it wasn't. They'd taken it away. But you could tell it hadn't been gone long by the way the dust was deep most everywhere, except where it'd been shifted. So DEMLE know about it, but they've kept it out of the press, even though they were reporting the Abbotts. Our theory is that Crouch killed her, too--Brindl reckons it was back in May or April, even--and took time to go back and have a look at her corpse while he was in GH last Wednesday. No telling if we're right, of course.
* Ryan Mackrell, owner of Puddlemere United. Well, majority owner. Turns out there's a group of owners that included Crouch. Mackrell and Crouch were yearmates in Slytherin in school. Friends near as anyone can say. Mackrell's sister, Jaqueline, owns Mackrell Security and Surveillance Systems. Both have been solid for the Protectorate.
* All four of the Jugsons--Janus, Camille, Remy and Alfie.
* Jerome and Mary Spinx This one's new: WWN have just got hold of it this afternoon.
* Madam Rosmerta at Three Broomsticks. The nine others killed there were:
1. Ruari MacGhille
2. Tertius Foster
3. Sturl Hofnagel
4. Vespa Tamblyn
5. Roger Thrush
6. Carlus Dervish
7. Brace Carden
8. Holda Wunsch
9. Cilla Pottage
The one who survived is Mesmerie Fellowes, who's still recuperating in the Hospital Wing.

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