Yeah the angle of making them all suspicious is possible but guessing wrong and then having to wait is really frustrating haha. I have guessed Aubrey Graham, Gary, Gabriel, Nicky, Garfield, Luigi, LJ.... I got them all wrong. Though I knew Garfield wouldn't be right I just wanted to see what you wrote for it haha. But yes as you can imagine I don't feel super motivated to wait to guess randomly if that makes sense.
I'm not sure if adding the single report via phone would work because if it's just a guessing game, then the player would need to restart the game over and over and you'd run into the same problem. I would maybe tie in the dilemma mechanic you had but allow people to guess at any point. And make a "detective score" based on how well the dilemma answers were. So if I wrote down 3 notes that were useful and 3 that were not, and then spam guesses until I get the right monster, my end score would be 50% (or divide it by the number of guesses or something)
It would also be cool if there were environmental clues like the forest being chopped up in weird areas or the axe left somewhere wrong for example.
And you're welcome for the feedback! Thanks for considering it. Please let me know who the monster is lol 😅. Also please consider rating my team's game as well, thank you!!