Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-39380631-20190528145139/@comment-35711173-20190528200654

How dark can you go? The kids were tortured, mutilated and starved? Cops see that kind of thing.

In reality, the cops would be called. The officers would do a rough preliminary investigation. The coroner's office would take the kids out of there and the forensics team would sweep the place for evidence. The coroner would autopsy the kids (if possible). The detectives would get that info as a written report with some pictures. Maybe they would go by the coroner's office to look at the mummies, maybe not.

The odds are that something is going to eat the corpses, flies, and maggots if nothing else. Unless the circumstances are extraordinary like the cave is in the Mojave desert, in eight years they are going to find a skeleton with maybe some hair and clothes on it.

None of that is going to make a detective go insane. Hell, it's not even going to make him skip his lunch.

I suggest having the horror happen in the first person, to the people down there.