Note from Detective Everette Larson

My name is Everette Larson, I worked as a detective for the Washington County Police Department for many years, mainly serving the town of Hurricane, Utah. I was part of the investigation into the 1985 Freddy Fazbear’s Missing Children Incident. I was a younger guy back then, only in my early 20’s. I was very green, and so I didn’t really do much during the investigation itself. I mainly just followed around the head detective, Clay Burke, and took notes on what he was doing. Truthfully, though, I’m not sure how I managed to get assigned to such a high-profile case. This was the largest and most egregious crime that the PD had seen in years. Five kids, all going missing at the same place, within the same week? It was big news at the time, and there was a lot of pressure on us to find out what happened and who did it.
We turned that place upside down, and we never found any bodies. We didn’t even find any evidence of foul play. It was like they just vanished into thin air. It was a disaster. No culprit, not even any bodies for the parents to bury. The public was outraged. The pressure was building higher and higher for Clay and the rest of the department. Eventually, the public would get their answer.
First it was some grainy surveillance footage, then a weapon and some fingerprints, quickly leading to a mugshot and an orange jumpsuit for one Mr. Henry Emily. Looking back, it’s obvious what had happened: they needed a scapegoat, and Henry was the easiest target. He was a reserved guy, let his partner William do all the talking. He was easy to distrust. He was being framed, they must’ve been able to see that, I mean the guy had an alibi and no motive whatsoever, but they let it happen for the sake of the people. It’s pretty sickening what they did to him. People actually pushed for the death penalty, but that got overturned somewhere up the chain of command.
There were a lot of weird things going on in the PD at that time. Strange decisions, odd behavior from our senior officers. I heard talks of bribes, even forged evidence. I was never high enough up the food chain to ever know for certain, but I’ve got a pretty good hunch. I mean, all the evidence implicating Henry was only ever discovered when it was just Clay at the scene; I wasn’t allowed there with him on the day he found the fingerprints. Same with the CCTV footage; it was suspiciously cut off when we all viewed it for the first time, but a “secondary analysis” by Clay and some other higher ranking officers revealed the incriminating footage. Hell, for being such a prominent figure at the restaurant at that time, William Afton himself was never even a suspect on our list. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I’m just saying that William Afton was a very rich and powerful man, especially for a small town like Hurricane. I don’t think he got away with what he did just because he was such a genius criminal.