Progress!

Chase has let me know again that he isn't even going to open the front page at Who Is Megan Kyle, let alone read the forums. Other than that, though, I'm astounded by how succesful my call for help on the internet has been.

Firstly, a team effort discovered that the company that Megan was working for before her death, Vanadium Network Solutions, has mysteriously closed up shop and is claiming they haven't been operating for about two years. Which is just a lie. I know Megan worked there. The evidence should be in the Cadmean Recruiting database, in the form of Vanadium's job ad. If only we knew what username and password Vanadium used to register it, we could retrieve the ad, but the chances of prying that information out of Cadmean's matching officers seems slim.

A message hidden in the source code of the Vanadium site (found by Tipsila) leads to a blog run by someone calling themselves Occluder (discovered by Esteed). The blog itself is scattered with hidden messages that seem to imply whoever's running it knew that my sister was going to die well ahead of the event. (Thanks to Freshness for finding those.) I've been leaving comments on the blog since we found it but they just keep getting deleted. It seems like someone doesn't want to come out from behind their curtain just yet.

Lastly, there's Megan's video. Or at least, the video which appeared on Megan's blog. It shows a variety of views of Black Mountain and the Telstra Tower (notable Canberra landmarks). We're thinking that maybe Megan left or buried something on the mountain, but I'm a little unsure exactly what to do. There's a lot of bushland up there to cover.

All that still adds up to a lot more than I ever expected to find when I opened the website. The accomplishments listed abover are just some of the genius that's already been applied to this mystery; I'll try and list more as I get the chance. Thanks to everyone who's helped so far, and if you're reading and haven't got involved yet, now's a great time to jump in! Remember to post anything you learn in the Who Is Megan Kyle forums so I can try and get my head around it.