The man sighed as he cleaned off his axe. The blood from another man's slit throat was splattered all over the dismal New York city alleyway. The knife-man looked over his handy-work with a morbid happiness. He thought, "This'll get that little fucker Rorschach's attention." He finished cleaning his ax and walked off down the alley and into an apartment complex.
Rorschach's Journal. January 19, 1976
Cold today. Streets icy from recent rains and freezes. Found decapitated corpse in alleyway this morning. Gruesome murder, not professional. No signs of struggle. Could tell mans head had been cut off with some sort of crude tool. Not sharp knife, skin to torn up. Have not seen murder like this before. Will begin investigation tomorrow.