Narrator wrote:At first he doesn't find anything at all, but after cutting down on the number of criteria things start popping up. Most notably it seems to be two different cases. One in the US where the father shot and killed his son and wife before killing himself, the other in the UK where the parents of a small child were convicted of murder for killing their only daughter with an axe. The two cases seem to have nothing at all in common, the one in the US having taken place in 1962 while the one in the UK happened in 1980, 54 and 36 years ago respectively.
Narrator wrote:Looking at 6 year intervals yields yet more cases that don't really stand out. There are a lot of murders that happen in a year around the world, so it's possible he's just missing the needle in the haystack, but 6 just doesn't feel as right rolling around in his head. The dates don't feel like they're particularly notable at first glance, until he starts pulling up wikipedia lists for notable events and both dates list a partial eclipse and a little further digging reveals that they seem to be part of an eclipse cycle, as astronomical event during which eclipses repeat in fixed intervals due to the earth, sun and moon being in harmonic orbits. Due to the Earth's rotation these are visible on different parts of the planet, first in North America, the second in the United Kingdom. The third - and first full eclipse - of this particular cycle occurred 18 years ago.
Narrator wrote:Nothing. The connections between the two cases are just too flimsy, too unconnected. And not a single homicide he can dig up from that year, or even that week that would seem to fit. If something happened that year, maybe it didn't make the headlines or went unnoticed altogether?
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