Raven's Notes: Confusion (Or "Why Raven Lozada Needs More Sleep")

As I started to rearrange how my story was organized and presented, I realized I had almost made a very stupid mistake. Originally, the story began with Nick (The Protagonist) monologuing about how an innocent man was falsely accused of murder, as he watches the man being driven from the courtroom in a police car. Then Nick would explain the events of the First Murder while compulsively looking over the case file, as his boss drops a new one on his desk. As I and my professors noted that a Murder Mystery should begin with a murder, I shifted gears and made the First Murder the beginning of the story instead. I created storyboards showing a member of the Mayor's campaign being paralyzed by a spell from an unknown source, and murdered by a strange creature. However, somehow during the transfer from "Brooding Monologue" to "Actual Scene Layout", I forgot to add arguably the most important part; how the man being arrested was involved with the murder to begin with. In a draft of the explanation, Nick explains that the man was actually a janitor who worked in the apartment building that the murder took place. The part I was missing shows that the man was sweeping one of the hallways of the building when a strange feeling washes over him, which compels him to rush to the room where the murder took place. He sees the creature and springs into action, summoning an arcane knife and stabbing straight through the creature, causing it to disappear in a puff of purple smoke. This puts him in a compromising position as people start to leave their apartments and see him, with a magic weapon, standing over a freshly killed body. No one believes him when he likens the murder to "a strange shadow creature". I'm not sure how I could have left this out or why it skipped my mind entirely. Perhaps because I have all of the information in my head, I assumed the connection between the murder and the arrest would have been completely clear. In any case, I'm glad it was caught before I had gotten further in development.