Rest In Grease

When grease is never enough...

**Rest In Grease** is the second case in Island Investigations, the 2nd case to occur in the docks, as well as the 377th case overall.

## ***Summary***

### **Victim**

* **Kirsten Maybridge** **(Drowned in grease)**

## ***Plot***

After **arriving at Santa Matnette**, the player found out about a recent murder that happened in front of a tiny store. We met up with detective Leo Lennox and rushed to the scene. The team's chief, Emma Jansen, told the duo to rush in one of their police cars, but Leo insisted on taking the player in his million-dollar Ferrari instead. We immediately found the scene, only to find a woman drowned in grease. We scan the woman's face through the police database and we find out that the victim's name is **Kirsten Maybridge**. We look at her record, and we see that she used to be **a dead famous actor**'s assistant and that she moved to **Santa Matnette** not long ago in order to start a new life. We then find a picture of her and another girl not far from the crime scene. We identify her face in the database and find out the other person in the picture was **Fiona Wells**, a friend of the victim. When we ask Fiona about the victim, she starts sobbing after hearing about the loss of one of her best friends. Also at the scene of the crime, we find a phone belonging to **Justin Timbersea**. We then realize that he's the manager of the shop the victim died in front of. We immediately find Justin closing down his store for the day, and we tell him about Kirsten's demise. He tells us that he didn't see anything and that he'll keep his eye out for anything suspicious around his store. We then go to the store next door, which is a bike store. We discover that the victim had been a part-time employee there and that she changed her appearance dramatically so nobody would recognize her. We then find a bike in the store. We analyze a name tag on it and send it to **Noel Valentine**, the team's profiler. Noel tells the team that the bike belongs to **Ryan Jones**, a famous artist who moved to Santa Matnette recently. When we ask Ryan about the bike, he tells the team that it recently broke down next to a nearby bike shop. He carried it in and waited for it to get fixed. He was told to pick it up at 4:00 PM, but when he got there he didn't see anyone around. He immediately left back to his apartment with his bike. We then look around the bike store some more and we find a cash register with an orange stain on it. After sending the cash register to **Karen Wilson**, the team's lab chief, she was able to confirm that she found a DNA match, belonging to **Reuben Thomas**, the bike store's cashier. She then went on to mention that Reuben was quite rude to her when he repaired her bike since he took a while and it was still broken afterward. She then went on to say that she called the manager, but they refused to speak with her because they were rude. We then talk to this Reuben, who tells Leo and the player that he was busy fixing bikes all day but took a break around 4:00 PM. We then find a necklace belonging to **Annalee Burch**. Karen was able to confirm that the DNA on the necklace belonged to Kirsten. We ask Annalee about the necklace, and she says that as a socialite, she must have dropped it in a hurry to a party and that Kirsten just must've picked it up. We then find a security camera, which we send to **Nicholas Madigan**, the team's tech expert. Nicholas told the team that the footage on the security camera showed a heated argument between Kirsten and Ryan. After grilling Ryan, he said that he recognized Kirsten as the famous actress's assistant and that he wanted her autograph. She got furious due to this and refused to fix his bike. The next day she was fired. We also find a job application for Joe's Grocery. We talk to Justin about this and he said he immediately turned down the offer as he saw her and Ryan arguing at the bike store. We then find a stolen car, belonging to Fiona. Fiona then furiously said that Kirsten stole her car because she wanted to feel rich again, like seven years ago when she was working for the **late** **Donna Streep**. We then discover that Annalee's necklace was in the "STOLEN ITEMS" section of a magazine we found at the bike store. Annalee then said that Kirsten ripped the necklace off of her in order to sell it for money. We then find out that Kirsten was suggestive towards Reuben several times, but that he declined her offers. Reuben said that Kirsten kept trying to make a move on him when he made it very clear to her that he was not into her at all. After interrogating Reuben and doing one last quick sweep around the victim's bedroom, we finally have all the evidence we need to arrest Kirsten's killer.

## ***Killer And Motives***

The killer turned out to be Reuben.

Upon admitting to the murder, he said that after leaving the US because of financial and work problems, Kirsten settled down in Santa Matnette and became quite poor and without a job. She and Rueben became friends, and Kirsten usually went to him for money and free stuff, but she kept begging for more and more, which Reuben fired from the store. He later found out that all the money Kirsten asked for was spent at casinos. Reuben couldn't handle it and used the nearby grease barrel as a method to end her suffering.

**Judge Sakura** sentenced Reuben to life in prison.

## ***Welcome To Santa Matnette! (2/5)***

After arresting Reuben, we continue our investigation into the dock laboratories in Santa Matnette. We then meet up once again with **Forest Gurray**, a CEO and the owner of the docks, who tells us that Kirsten had some information about the docks she stole from him in exchange for money. We search through her bedroom and find a blueprint that harms the environment tremendously. We tell Forest to stop and he agrees. After the player meets up with Leo and the two take a stroll around town to see everything going on. The next morning, **Cody Horn** and the player get an urgent call from **Jordan Foster**, the team's informant, who tells us about a murder that happened not far from the police station.

## ***Suspects***

***Fiona Wells (Traits: 1, 4)Justin Timbersea (Traits: 2, 3)Ryan Jones (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4)Reuben Thomas (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Annalee Burch (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)***