Senator McCoy’s Daughter Kidnapped! 3/06/3134
INN - Interstellar News Network
ARGOSIA – Police in Argosia officially announced today that unknown persons have
kidnapped Lindsey McCoy, daughter of planetary senator Robert McCoy of Towne’s
Argos Province. The announcement follows the delivery of a pre-recorded holochip
where the kidnappers demanded a half-billion C-bills from the senator’s family in
exchange for the return of the sixteen year-old heiress, and ends speculation about her
disappearance following a night of partying in the provincial capital city.
Lindsey McCoy’s father, Senator Robert McCoy, is also the affluent baron whose
landhold includes over half the southern coastline of the tropical Argos Province,
whose estates and assets have been valued at close to a billion C-bills in a recent
edition of Nobility vidzine. Although he did not respond to calls from reporters this
afternoon, a spokesperson for McCoy’s family told INN that Senator McCoy and his
family remain deeply concerned for Lindsey’s welfare.
Police say that Lindsey McCoy, a student in the exclusive Argosia Valley Preparatory
College for Young Women, went missing soon after attending a society ball in the
northern part of the provincial capital. Close friends of the teenager said she then
joined them at the Amarello, a popular dance club in the city’s downtown district that
caters to teens and young adults, where she remained for a few hours before leaving
with an unidentified young man. Initial reports also suggested that Lindsey had been
seen drinking, despite being under the legal age by city mandates. Representatives of
the Amarello, however, have vehemently denied this, citing the club’s policy for
serving no alcohol without valid identification.
“[Lindsey] McCoy is a well known and very regular patron of our club,” said one
club manager, who refused to be identified. “Even with false ID, she could not have
purchased alcohol here.”
Argosia police say that the identity of Lindsey’s unknown companion when she left
the establishment remains under investigation. What is known, however, is that, less
than fourteen hours after her departure, Senator McCoy officially reported her
missing to the city police department. The arrival of ransom demands this morning at
the McCoy estate confirmed the family’s worst fears, and local and planetary
investigators are already on the scene.
Reportedly, even Sir Kristoff Erbe, Towne’s native-born Knight-Errant, will be joining
the investigation in the days ahead, but officials with the Towne Bureau of
Investigations have not confirmed this. In the meantime, a family, a city, and a planet,
wait with baited breath.
Towne Log
+ Half a BILLION C-bills!?! Holy ! :- GreasL
+ There’s no way old man McCoy is going to pay up that much. I’ve got a bad
feeling about this one… :- RepMan
+ Say, the article doesn’t say who’s running the investigation. Doesn’t that seem odd
to anyone here? :- Synnik
+ It’s Frances Becca again. Same girl who handled the “Little Luthien” case here.
(They had it on the local feed.) All I can say is, good luck to McCoy, with *her* on
the job! :- Draco041
+ Ah, jeez! Figures! Anyone look at a map lately? Agros and the Zingara Province are
neighbors! This could be a copycat of the LL Killer, or maybe Erb didn’t really get his
man after all! :- RaiRai
+ Serves her right, anyway! Going off with some strange guy she met in a club?
What woman in her right mind does that? :- Vesuvius
+ Uh, Ves. What makes you so sure she didn’t know this guy? Wouldn’t be the first
time the date was blamed for something he didn’t do…. :- RepMan
INN - Interstellar News Network
ARGOSIA – Police in Argosia officially announced today that unknown persons have
kidnapped Lindsey McCoy, daughter of planetary senator Robert McCoy of Towne’s
Argos Province. The announcement follows the delivery of a pre-recorded holochip
where the kidnappers demanded a half-billion C-bills from the senator’s family in
exchange for the return of the sixteen year-old heiress, and ends speculation about her
disappearance following a night of partying in the provincial capital city.
Lindsey McCoy’s father, Senator Robert McCoy, is also the affluent baron whose
landhold includes over half the southern coastline of the tropical Argos Province,
whose estates and assets have been valued at close to a billion C-bills in a recent
edition of Nobility vidzine. Although he did not respond to calls from reporters this
afternoon, a spokesperson for McCoy’s family told INN that Senator McCoy and his
family remain deeply concerned for Lindsey’s welfare.
Police say that Lindsey McCoy, a student in the exclusive Argosia Valley Preparatory
College for Young Women, went missing soon after attending a society ball in the
northern part of the provincial capital. Close friends of the teenager said she then
joined them at the Amarello, a popular dance club in the city’s downtown district that
caters to teens and young adults, where she remained for a few hours before leaving
with an unidentified young man. Initial reports also suggested that Lindsey had been
seen drinking, despite being under the legal age by city mandates. Representatives of
the Amarello, however, have vehemently denied this, citing the club’s policy for
serving no alcohol without valid identification.
“[Lindsey] McCoy is a well known and very regular patron of our club,” said one
club manager, who refused to be identified. “Even with false ID, she could not have
purchased alcohol here.”
Argosia police say that the identity of Lindsey’s unknown companion when she left
the establishment remains under investigation. What is known, however, is that, less
than fourteen hours after her departure, Senator McCoy officially reported her
missing to the city police department. The arrival of ransom demands this morning at
the McCoy estate confirmed the family’s worst fears, and local and planetary
investigators are already on the scene.
Reportedly, even Sir Kristoff Erbe, Towne’s native-born Knight-Errant, will be joining
the investigation in the days ahead, but officials with the Towne Bureau of
Investigations have not confirmed this. In the meantime, a family, a city, and a planet,
wait with baited breath.
Towne Log
+ Half a BILLION C-bills!?! Holy ! :- GreasL
+ There’s no way old man McCoy is going to pay up that much. I’ve got a bad
feeling about this one… :- RepMan
+ Say, the article doesn’t say who’s running the investigation. Doesn’t that seem odd
to anyone here? :- Synnik
+ It’s Frances Becca again. Same girl who handled the “Little Luthien” case here.
(They had it on the local feed.) All I can say is, good luck to McCoy, with *her* on
the job! :- Draco041
+ Ah, jeez! Figures! Anyone look at a map lately? Agros and the Zingara Province are
neighbors! This could be a copycat of the LL Killer, or maybe Erb didn’t really get his
man after all! :- RaiRai
+ Serves her right, anyway! Going off with some strange guy she met in a club?
What woman in her right mind does that? :- Vesuvius
+ Uh, Ves. What makes you so sure she didn’t know this guy? Wouldn’t be the first
time the date was blamed for something he didn’t do…. :- RepMan
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