Drowning Sub-Zero

"*Kidnapping turns deadly when one captive is frozen to death at Blood Falls. To catch the kidnapper, you must catch the killer!*"
– Case Teaser

**Drowning Sub-Zero** is a case featured in Criminal Case Third Line: World Dominant, appearing as the 57th case of the game. It is the first case set in Antarctica.

## Plot

The Bureau headed to Antarctica to rescue Anabel Thompson and Kevin's ex-wife and son, Kathryn and Colin McCaskey. Soon after Taraji reported shots getting fired at a construction site in Blood Falls, the player went there accompanied by Stephanie, who was taken Anabel's place after Anabel went with Maggie and the cults followers, following the grief over losing her family and Beth. In Blood Falls there, however, they found Kathryn, frozen on the wall to death, and Colin is missing.

The five people were labelled as suspects: Aiden McCaskey (homeless and Kevin's brother), Celvin Huang (construction site owner), Leonid Antonov (bartender), Megan Wardrobe (president's former assistant), and Tutonda Bolasie (hunter).

Mid-investigation, the team learned that Seven Deadly Sins had left Kathryn and Colin to an accomplice before the murder. Shortly after, Taraji told the team she had tracked the (now-abandoned) van which the killer used to take Colin away from the construction site. Later, the team arrested construction site owner Celvin Huang for aiding and abetting in the kidnapping as he had given Maggie Fairchild free reign over the cave. The team then calmed Kevin down after he became drunk and hysterically tried to kill those who murdered his beloved wife. Finally, the team found enough evidence to arrest President Daniel Klump's former assistant, Megan Wardrobe, for the murder.

Upon admitting to the murder, Megan said that President Peter Vasuni had asked her to keep watch over Kathryn and Colin, telling her that Kathryn was Steven Nashville's assistant and political enemy. Wanting to remain close to the city's most powerful man, she agreed. However, Kathryn had woken up and tried to escape, leading to a fight that culminated in Megan freezing her to death with a liquid nitrogen canister and taking Colin away. After Judge Palamo sentenced her to life in prison, she agreed to give away Colin's location in exchange for a lighter sentence.

During Last Hours of Apocalypse (1/4), in prison, Megan told the team that she left Colin in an abandoned garage near the ice hiking trail. The team then rescued Colin and reunited him with Kevin, after which he told them that Megan was accompanied by a man who helped her with the kidnapping.

Stephanie and the player searched the van for clues about Megan's accomplice. There, they found the accomplice's face mask with hairs which (per Hao) belonged to Leonid Antonov. Upon the arrest, Leonid told the team that Bruce Denver had looked him up and convinced him to join the operation in exchange for financial backing of his struggling vodka bar. The team then told Colin that they had caught his other captor and later found and returned the last toy car that his mother had given him.

Meanwhile, in exchange for release from prison, Celvin told Chief Fowler and the player that he had overheard Yuila saying things that implied her mom was the "New Silence Slayer". He also said that more strangers were hanging around the construction site after Yuila's call and so the team went to the site, where they found a money envelope with fingerprints which (per Taraji) belonged to homeless vet Aiden McCaskey. Aiden said that a woman had paid him to look out for three people fitting the descriptions of Maggie, Yuila, Bruce, Vasuni and Bruno. With Aiden's physical description of the woman, the team concluded that it was Dominic Chadov-Woodhull who had paid Aiden.

After all the events, Taraji was able to trace a helicopter recently purchased by Denver. They then went to where the helicopter was stationed in Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station to stop Seven Deadly Sins from getting away with Anabel.

## Suspects

**Aiden McCaskey**
Homeless Worker
 **Blood** | A+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect sledging biscuits.

**Celvin Huang**
Construction Site Owner
 **Blood** | A+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect has a cold.
* The suspect wears warm hat.
* The suspect sledging biscuits.
* The suspect has brown hair.

**Leonid Antonov**
Bartender
 **Blood** | AB-

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect wears warm hat.
* The suspect has frostbite.

**Megan Wardrobe**
President's Former Assistant
 **Blood** | O+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect has a cold.
* The suspect wears warm hat.
* The suspect sledging biscuits.
* The suspect has frostbite.
* The suspect has brown hair.

**Tutonda Bolasie**
Hunter
 **Blood** | O+

**Suspect's Profile**

* The suspect has a cold.
* The suspect wears warm hat.
* The suspect sledging biscuits.
* The suspect has frostbite.

## Quasi-suspect(s)

**Colin McCaskey**
Kevin's Son
 **Blood** | O+

## Killer's Profile

* The killer has a cold.
* The killer wears warm hat.
* The killer eats sledging biscuits.
* The killer has frostbite.
* The killer has brown hair.