Seymour David - Doomsday Clock (2017)

Former employee of New York's The New Frontiersman, Seymour David originally found Rorschach's journal sent to them by the masked vigilante before his confrontation with Adrian Veidt at Karnak, transcribing entries of the book in 1986 following The New York City Massacre.  

However, shortly after the paper went in circulation, he was brutally beaten to death in his own home in what would be considered by N.Y.P.D and the courts as being a botched burglary attempt by a young thief Roger Jackson. 

Yet the case was reopened after The Massacre began being investigated more closely, with FBI searching David's home for Rorschach's journal. Realising that it was missing, authorities concluded that the murder had in fact been premeditated by an unknown assailant wanting to reclaim the journal and ensure that entries about Rorschach's investigation into the death of Edward Morgan Blake remained unpublished. 

The crime was reported by Doug Routh in the February edition of the Nova Express in 1987.