[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Shaun

After being accused by the forum of being the killer, The_Watchman - otherwise known as Matthew - went on the run as he believed that the killer would target him next. Matthew decided to investigate the murders for himself from a safe distance. Attending the funerals of Alex and Kieran was a real eye-opener: the user known as 'Kelly' was a relatively popular 'girl' on the forum that was always rumoured to be involved in silly flings and dirty screenshots with the other male members - no pun intended. Yet his real identity and generally solid, supportive family network made Matthew suspect something. Why would he masquerade as his dead sister online?

After trailing the investigation for a while, Matthew made the brave decision to break into Kelly's apartment in Dover. There, he eventually acquired Voyeur's laptop which was filled with powerful hacking programs that allowed him to investigate everyone on the forum. The apartment was rather immaculate; for someone struggling emotionally he kept himself incredibly clean and organised. A few family photographs littered his bedroom wall, but there were certainly no tell-tale signs you'd see in the movies; no map of the UK with crazy red strings connected to photographs of the victims, no mysterious locked trunk in the wardrobe, no kitchen knives missing. His suspicion of Kieran only intensified after reading a series of psych reports that Voyeur had hacked her way into.

Kieran was mentally unstable and desperate for someone to blame for his sister's death; these feelings exploded into violence when Verona died. Living up to his username, The_Watchman tracked his internet history and saw that Kieran had read an article about Verona shortly before the murders started - this date happened to correspond with a particularly grisly thread on the ICB forum surrounding the death of a young woman in a car crash. On a quick glance of the victim's memorial page on Facebook you could even argue she looked like Kelly. Matthew believed this unfortunate coincidence may have been the switch that turned Kieran. He deducted that Kieran killed the forum members as an attempt to work through his own grief; if there wasn't anyone to blame for Kelly's death then he'd avenge Verona in her place.

Matthew handed his findings to the police (but covered his tracks on the hacking front first) but they couldn't do anything about it as Kieran had already died in a suspected suicide.

Upon discovering the truth, Matthew had planned to inform the forum... but after what they did to him, he decided to leave them to fester in their own paranoia. He never told them the truth and he moved on with his own life, but the incident had changed him forever and turned his heart cold. He would never truly trust another person again.