A vampire with the body of a teenaged girl was found dead yesterday. The case was originally referred to the auror division as a possible murder, before the body was identified as one Daisy Jackson, an employee of the funeral service owned by vampire Blossom Spinnakers, of London. Jackson's exact age is unknown, as is her background, but she is suspected to have been over a century at the time of her more permanent death.

Jackson was reported missing by her employer about a month ago, but the Ministry was unable to find any evidence of wrongdoing at the time. Vampires are frequently migratory beings, due to their bloodlust, and it was suspected that Jackson had moved on to greener pastures — or, as some might say, to fresher bodies.

Now that her body has been recovered, it is unclear how the Ministry plans to proceed. The murder of vampires is technically illegal, despite the fact that several famous (or infamous) men have made a living as proclaimed vampire hunters. There is a derth of knowledge surrounding natural causes for their death, if any, however, which makes it difficult to determine whether a murder did actually occur, or whether Jackson perished of natural causes. If she was killed by a witch or wizard, it may also have been as an act of self-defense, which is protected under magical law when one has a reasonable fear for one's life due a vampire's words or actions.

Spinnakers has claimed that Jackson was the victim of murder. If Jackson was killed maliciously, a potential motivation may have been the dramatic increase in vampire-caused violence and death in recent months, including most recently the murder of Miss Margaret Rawlinson.