Location file
02 · EXPLORE DETROIT
THE
STREETS
Geography & Crime Crawl
Detroit was worked block by block. Streets led to precincts, factories, taverns, homes, courtrooms, and cases. This section connects Ralph Palmer's chronology to the physical city beneath it.
THE MAP ROOM
Two ways into the same city.
One view follows the street grid and old maps. The other treats the chronology like an investigator's working board: locations, dates, cases, and connections. Both remain anchored to verified geography and chronology.
THE STREET MAP
Trace Detroit.
Period-map atmosphere, major arteries, neighborhoods and documented locations. Red routes can follow the streets that carry the chronology.
OPEN MAP →THE INVESTIGATION BOARD
Connect the files.
A period-inspired case board: pinned locations, dates, police units and strings that show relationships without turning history into fiction.
OPEN BOARD →DETROIT RIVER
WOODWARD
MICHIGAN
GRAND RIVER
TIREMAN
McGRAW
THE STREET MAP
The city becomes evidence.
This first map is deliberately schematic. Documented streets, addresses and period maps govern the historical geography; invented locations do not.
major route documented location
THE INVESTIGATION BOARD
Pins. Dates. Connections.
Not a Hollywood conspiracy wall. A restrained, period-inspired research board that lets visitors see how a place connects to a case, a police unit, a newspaper date and a chapter.
Sixth Precinct
Police Headquarters
Street geography
Cases connect through time and place.
CRIME CRAWL
Choose how to enter.
BY YEAR
Watch Ralph's working geography change from patrol to Vice, Robbery, SIB, Homicide and Narcotics.
BY STREET
Start with an address and follow its neighborhood, cases, newspapers and nearby history.
BY CASE
Open a documented investigation and see where every known location sits in Detroit.
THEN & NOW
Compare the historical location with the city that occupies the same ground today.
SEALED FEATURE
DRIVE RALPH'S DETROIT
Choose a year. Follow the streets. Watch his assignment — and the city around it — change.
19461949195319551960LATER FILES
THE WORLD KEEPS OPENING
One address can lead anywhere.
A street can lead to a neighborhood, a case, a newspaper, a police unit, an archive item and back into the book. That cross-linking is the engine of Crime Crawl.
← BACK TO EXPLORE DETROITENTER THE CITY →SOLVE THE MONTHLY CRIME · CASE OPEN
Solve Monthly Crime 01 · The Missing Shield · Evidence 03 of 05
Read the street record.
The first letter of each line names the month:
McGraw Station marks an early beginning.
Assignments carried Palmer beyond patrol.
Rank became part of the record.
Casework opened a new phase.
Headquarters waited farther ahead.
Assignments carried Palmer beyond patrol.
Rank became part of the record.
Casework opened a new phase.
Headquarters waited farther ahead.
Carry the month you uncovered.
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