Joseph Brown

Joseph Brown was a child who was killed with the modus operandi of the Origami Killer. He was last seen getting into Gordi Kramer's limo and was found dead several days later, with drowning as the cause of death. It is this incident that causes Gordi to become the prime suspect in Scott Shelby's investigation into the true identity of the serial killer. Gordi kidnapped Joseph as a copycat act of the Origami Killer. Charles Kramer reveals in "Face to Face" that Gordi held Joseph under the water for too long and cried after the boy died, but also downplays the severity of his son's actions by insisting that no one will miss Joseph because he was "just street trash like so many others."
==Trivia==
* Although the exact dates of Joseph's birth and death are unknown, it can be inferred that he was born between 1996 and 2000 and died between October 4, 2010 (the day after the Origami Killer claimed his third victim) and October 4, 2011 (the day before Scott visits the Kramer mansion to question Gordi about the murder). If he were born and/or killed outside this time frame, Scott would have no legitimate reason to suspect Gordi of being the Origami Killer. Gordi murdering the boy as a copycat act and being aware of the Origami Killer's modus operandi also suggests that the Origami Killer was already established as a serial killer when Joseph was killed, which would not have occurred until after the third victim's body was found. (Serial killings are defined as three or more murders with shared characteristics.)
* One of Ronan Rouxel's CG renders for Heavy Rain was an unnamed child's head. By process of elimination, this render most likely depicts Joseph Brown: the child is a black male, so it can't be Jessica (who is female and has a white father) and almost certainly isn't Reza (whose father is Middle Eastern), and none of the other unseen children in the game are as significant to the plot as Joseph is.
** The unnamed child is one of the people whose face is shown up close during the opening credits.
==Gallery==
File:Child Head Render.jpg|Head render of an unnamed child (possibly Joseph Brown) by Ronan Rouxel
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