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Designed to comfortably hold perhaps ten officers, the Major Crime incident room at Police Headquarters in Alice Springs now held double that number. The attendant cops, including numerous uniformed officers seconded from the General Duties section, stood shoulder-to-shoulder, talking amongst themselves, discussing everything from the weather to latest football results. A few even discussed the very reason they were gathered in the crowded, stuffy Incident Room. Detectives on official leave who chose to remain in Alice Springs rather than leave town for the duration of their holiday away from the job were recalled to duty. Others were ordered to suspend whatever case it was they were currently working on and concentrate only on the Desert Demon; a name the media had dubbed the random,
