Story Fragment Series (c

 A Mad Scientist that is only 16 or so, invents a table which can scan anything as The object falls into it, & then The process can be reversed, bringing The scanned object back up. The Process can then be repeated, creating a duplicate of The original, or any number of duplicates. He then lures a girl from The neighborhood to come over & lay down on The table, As soon as The Scanning process begins, The girl effectively blacks out, & only become conscious again when the reforming process is completed. She reports a mild tingling sensation, but otherwise is completely unaware that anything odd has just happened. She then leaves, & he makes several duplicates of The girl which he tortures & murders. Each duplicate believes that she is The original of course. The original girl finds out about The duplicates & how he’d murdered them. She reports all this to The authorities, but by The time they investigate, he’s disposed of most of the blood & all of The body parts by dropping them back into The scanner, which effectively reabsorbs them. But has he committed any crimes ? Were The girls that he murdered ‘real’ in The sense of having citizenship ? Did he murder the first girl when he scanned her ? Is the First Reconstituted Girl a duplicate or an Original Copy ? If he creates Nine more duplicates, The girls parents claim that they can’t possibly support 9 more daughters, & insist that they be reabsorbed by The table ! How do they choose which ones to ‘kill’. Which is Not thought of an killing.