Scioly Assassination 83: A Christmas Killing

[EastStroudsburg13]

Glancing at the kill clue, I begin to suspect zyzzyva, but I don't have time to study it because I have to rest for Tiger tomorrow.

[Assassinator]

haverstall has correkly protektd Luo.

haverstall may give his extera accusaytion to another officer.

new clue:
azxk azq ue ftq oxgq. ftq aftqde iuxx tqxb kag ruzp uf.

frghyd
aazsbe
hytswx

[TheGenius]

azxk azq ue ftq oxgq. ftq aftqde iuxx tqxb kag ruzp uf.

Shifting this 14 times yields, "only one is the clue. the others will help you find it.".

[quadratic]

z hiding behind bad grammar?

[TheGenius]

No.

[EastStroudsburg13]

We need some kill leads. I'm sort of leaning to zyzzyva, but it's by no means certain.

[TheGenius]

zyzzyva could not be the assassinator: on February 4th, he was at a competition; the Assassinator made a post on that day, at 8:25, 5 minutes before the first event started.

[SciBomb97]

zyzzyva could not be the assassinator: on February 4th, he was at a competition; the Assassinator made a post on that day, at 8:25, 5 minutes before the first event started.

The 21st century has created something called the smart phone.

[Assassinator]

none of the offizers evan made an attemp to stop me. i walkd up and shot him poinnt blank in a crouwd of people. he was only trying to help.

TheGenius is ded.

solution (Click to Show Hidden Text)

azxk azq ue ftq oxgq. ftq aftqde iuxx tqxb kag ruzp uf.

frghyd 
aazsbe 
hytswx

the first part was a simple shift yeilding 'only one is the clue. the others will help you find it.' the others were one time pads. 'hytswx' was the first pad on 'aazsbe' yeilding 'tcgafh'. 'frghyd' was a pad on that yeilding 'olathe'

new clue:
episode 22nd. first on oct 6 1998.

id clue:
4aff2a

[TheGenius]

TheGenius is ded.

I am what? Did you mean death effector domain? Because that doesn't really make sense.

zyzzyva could not be the assassinator: on February 4th, he was at a competition; the Assassinator made a post on that day, at 8:25, 5 minutes before the first event started.

The 21st century has created something called the smart phone.

On the phone 5 minutes before an event? That's a horrible thought.