Varun Shah

Crime Thriller Others

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Varun Shah

Crime Thriller Others

The Missing Children

The Missing Children

4 mins
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Sam after spending a much needed vacation, deboard the train in his home town. Just as he stepped on the platform, his eyes were attracted to a newspaper stall.


And why not? He was probably the most genius detective of the city.


It was the headline in the newspaper which drew his attention, that read as : 'City under the grab of kidnappers! One more child missing!!'


All other newspapers, he read, were having similar headlines, different words but same context.


He murmured "Just a fortnight, I was away from city and the crime has gone uncontrolled..."


As he stepped out of the station, as expected, he received call from the police station.


The police officer, informed him the situation, which already, he had some hint from newspaper and asked for his support.


Sam instead of going home, drove straightway to the police station.


"There are five missing cases in last fifteen days. Surprisingly, all are of children." Said the Police Officer.

"As believed by people at large, I don't see any kidnapping angle as none of the parent has received any call for ransom."


Sam was on his work immediately and started gathering information. The only common thing which he found that all of them were kids, staying in different area, studying in different school and not knowing each other in any manner.


He studied all the investigation progress made by the Police but didn't found anything sparkling. So, he decided to start from scratch.


He visited home and school of every child. He collected several raw information, useful or useless. As he was analysing the case, he received the call from police station, as one more child had gone missing.


Luckily, this time there was one eye witness who chased the kidnapper but unfortunately he eloped.


Sam, reconstructed the scene from where the eye witness watched kidnapping upto where he saw the kidnapper last. The last location where the eye witness saw kidnapper was a deserted market street with very few shops open.


Sam assessed the location carefully and noticed that at the end of street it was a dead end and before that there were couple of shops both of which were related to kids toys and other activities. He checked in both the shops, but didn't found anything strange.


 He received call from his assistant, that he has found, some clue from the information, he gathered from school. He reached back office and his assistant informed that, there is one common thing in all cases. All the missing children, were learning music and its a common person who taught them music in school, he is visiting teacher in all schools.


Suddenly, something struck Sam's mind. 

A spark was in his eyes. "Yes, yes, that it is.." He screamed in excitement.


He immediately called police station and called them to the deserted market street. He too left with his assistant to the spot. On the way, he told that when he visited the shops in the street there were plenty of musical instruments there. Believe me or not but I think it has something to with this missing children case.


Soon, along with police they reached the shops and interrogated everyone. But to there despair couldn't found anything. There was no clue which can indicate the presence of either kidnapper or children there. The shops were large but having no other rooms where someone could hide.


Sam was not ready to believe that, his judgement has failed. Just as was about to step down, his sharp eyes caught attention of Piano in corner in opposite shop. He noticed that while the other things in shop were new and shiny, the piano was dusty with lot of marks on it. He went near to piano and thoroughly checked it.


Once again a spark was there in his eyes, as he noticed a small piece of cloth, trapped between the top cover and the body. This was the biggest finding, as the cloth piece was nothing other than a part of school uniform of the last kidnapped child.

He ordered to remove, the top cover and to everyone's surprise it was not just a piano. It was just constructed as piano and from top of it there was a secret tunnel.


The tunnel was opening deep into the ground to a secret room, where all the children were kept hostile after kidnapping. It was a child trafficking racket and the so called music teacher was just one of the handler. Finally, all the criminals were arrested and the case of missing children was solved! The piano, without playing a tune told everything!


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