The weird life of Vincent Techler

I say this with all seriousness.
I normally do not reveal much about my sources.
But this source is placed within the Peoria Public Library.
The source has access to the list of books being rented out by card holders.
He/she recalls witnessing Vincent Techler -- the missing husband of murder victim Melissa McMahon Techler -- buying some books during a recent book sale. One book was a handmade copy of something called the "Necronomicon." It looked fake, and it's didn't have a price tag on it. So it was sold to Techler for one dollar.
A week later, Techler's wife was dead.
And one day after this wife was murdered, but before her body was discovered, he showed up to research two books. They were called "The Whitby Murders: A Case Study" and "The Van Helsing Family Journals." I do not have the books in front of me, but I am told they constitute some sort of vampiric horror story, and purport to tell the "real" story of a vampire's attack.
The Necronomicon is a fictional work by several authors. I am told that several people who love this sort of stuff imagine it to be real. There is no accounting for taste.
This source talked to police. They never asked about that books in which he had an interest.

Another missing person, another murder victim

A clerk from All-Air-Cell-Tech has been missing for three days. he was last scene locking up the place on Friday. On Tuesday, a cook at "Fish Fish Fish" IN THE EXACT SAME STRIP MALL" was found murdered inside the store late that night.
I knew her. She was the prettiest thing.

Anna Lin Choi is missing, weirdness abounds

There was a "closed" sign on the Poh House for three days. The paper says Anna Lin Choi, wife of the slain co-owner, is being reported as missing by her kids, who are now home from college.
Peoria is more and more bizarre every day.
Including the two Techler kids and the one who was taken by a giant bat, there are eight kids who have gone missing in the past two weeks. A warehouse owned by the dude who probably make two of those kids go missing burns down. The restaurant next door to the warehouse turns up dead and his wife goes missing later.

Vampire bat takes child

Seriously. A woman claimed that the left her kid in her car for just a second, year right, and when she came back outside a giant vampire bat flew away from her car carrying her one-year-old baby, who was screaming her lungs out. The woman had just gotten off work at her restaurant and co-workers claim she was not not drugs. The women was hysterical, cops told the paper. Me things she's be charged soon.

The mind plays tricks on you. When my grandmother died when I was in the sixth grade, I imagined I saw her everywhere. So, I am imagine i am seeing poor Andrew Choi everywhere. I thought I saw him at Starbucks looking in at me through the window one evening. The next night I saw him again in the parking lot of the "Poh House." I'll have to ask Anna Lin next time I'm in there. Probably a relative or something.

Warehouse fire linked to Techler investigation

This is weird. On a lark, I check records at the courthouse and discover that the owner of Reichert's burned down warehouse on West Main is Vincent Techler. You know, the missing husband of Melissa McMahon Techler. Who was found dead in the home they shared in North Peoria. I haven't paid much attention to this, because I figure that the chairman of of the tractor company can pretty much buy justice for his daughter.
Police have been thinking that Techler absconded to Canada or Mexico with their two kids. And he's gotta be a suspect in her murder.
This is what I know:

• Police really think the fire was lightning.
• Several days after the fire, police were sifting through the ashes.
• A black van showed up to make a pickup at the scene,m a week after the fire. I think the van belongs to the coroners office, although what the coroner's office needs with unmarked vans remains a mystery.

Normally loquacious police officers have shut up tighter than a clam on this case.

Andy Choi passes

This is terrible. Andy has been running his restaurant "The Pho House" for close to 20 years, just across the street from Reichert's empty warehouse. He argues before the council to tear it down. Three days later, it burns to the ground. The next day, Andy's body if found outside the restaurant with his throat ripped out. My best wishes to his wife, Anna Lin Choi and his kids.