Who Killed John Howard?

## The deceased

John Howard was found dead in his own comic shop, the Komix Korner on August 18th, 2023. The body was discovered to have multiple stab wounds in his back and a severely mulitated face. The date of death was on 11:30 - 12:45, August 18th, 2023.

There are 9 suspects that the police think are involved in killing John Howard.

## Interviews with people who knew him

**Henry Lewis/Cop 1**: *I think we have to blur their faces-*

**Gareth Johnson/Cop 2**: *Where’s fun in that shit? Let’s just go and interview them now.*

### Suspect 1

**Cop 1**: *Name?*

**HK**: *Harold Benjamin Klinghorn.*

**Cop 2**: *How long have you known him?*

**HK**: *Since he opened the comic book store back in 1989.*

**Cop 1**: *When was the last time you saw him?*

**HK**: *He said that he was going to reorganize some of the comic books on August 15th.*

**Cop 1**: *What were you doing when he was killed?*

**HK**: *I was getting rid of some of my comic books in my house and preparing to give some of it to John.*

### Suspect 2

**Cop 1**: *What’s your name?*

**CF**: *Cody Andrew Fletcher.*

**Cop 2**: *How long did you know him?*

**CF**: *I knew him since started my freshman year of high school in 2015.*

**Cop 2**: *Well, what was he like?*

**CF**: *He acted really creepy towards both me and my friend, Owen Miller. But especially towards me.*

### Suspect 3

**Cop 1**: *What’s your name?*

**CF**: *Charles Allan Winkerbean.*

### Suspect 4

**Cop 1**: *Name?*

**LM**: *Lester Parley Moore.*

**Cop 2**: *How long did you know John Howard?*

**LM**: *Since he opened up the Comic book shop.*

**Cop 1**: *When’s the last time you saw him?*

**LM**: *Eight days ago.*

**Cop 2**: *What were you doing during 11:30 - 12:45?*

**LM**: *I was having a conversation with my colleague, James Kablichnick. He complained about how awful his summer school students were. But I know how much of a dick he is to his own students.*

**Cop 2**: *How so?*

**LM**: *He’s constantly berating them, especially the ones who had immigrated into the U.S. or who’s parents are immigrants.*

**JK**: ***I NEVER DO THAT! YOU’RE LYING TO THE POLICE ABOUT HOW I TREAT MY STUDENTS!***

**LM**: *Jim, I’m being interviewed by the police. I have to talk to you about this later.*

**JK**: *But-*

**Cop 2**: ***GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE YOU RACIST SCIENCE TEACHER!***

**JK**: ***HUMPH**! Some children **WERE** left behind!*

(JK waddles out of the room)

### Suspect 5

**Cop 1**: *Name?*

**LM**: *Lillian McKenzie.*

**Cop 1**: Did you know the victim?

**LM**: *I knew him since 2007, It’s such a shame he died.*

**Cop 2**: *What was he like?*

### Suspect 6

**Cop 1**: *Name?*

**JM**: *Jeffrey Robert Murdoch.*

**Cop 1**: *Did you know the victim?*

**JM**: *I didn’t, really. I only met him once, when I was giving one of the last comics I had to him and his friend, Harry Klinghorn.*

**Cop 2**: *What was he like?*

**CF**: *He was kind of creepy, and by “creepy”, he had a obsession with comic books and with women missing their left arm.*

### Suspect 9

**Cop 1**: *Okay, what’s your name?*

**WW**: *Walter Evan Winkerbean.*

**Cop 1**: *How long have you known the victim, Wally?*

**WW**: *I knew him since I was 15.*

**Cop 2**: *What was he like?*

**WW**: *He was kind of rude and argumentative and he lived with his mother. His haircut looked like that of the comic book collector character from The Simpsons.*

**Cop 1**: *Did he have any family?*

**CF**: *He had a wife, Rebecca Blackburn, my son, Wally Jr, and mine and Becky’s adoptive daughter, Rana. The first time he tried marrying Becky, It didn’t go the way he hoped.*

**Cop 2**: *What about that?*

**WW**: *After the car crash after my High School graduation which cost Becky her left arm, I started avoiding her and then I decided to join the U.S. Army to atone for what happened to her. Which led to me to Afghanistan, where I was kidnapped by bandits and reported Missing In Action in 2002. When John heard, he started dating Becky in the hopes that she’d forget about me. In fact, he tried to marry her, but gave that up when I was found my the U.S. Army after I escaped from the bandits that kidnapped me.*

**Cop 2**: *Okay, Aaaand?*

**WW**: *I suffered from a bad case of PTSD during that time. And I ended up going to Afghanistan to atone for almost getting killed there and I nearly got blown up by a landmine. I came back into the United States after adopting Rana, and was looking forward what came next. Unfortunately, I was forced back into the U.S. Army because I signed my discharge papers one second early. I had no choice but to rejoin the Army and I was shipped off to Iraq. During that time, John noticed that I left because of me being forced back into the U.S. Army and tried to force his advances to Becky, but she refused and told him to fuck off, but John never stopped. The second time I was reported MIA, John came up to Becky with a shotgun in his hands and said: “Marry me or I’ll kill both your beloved Rana and Wally Jr.”. Becky couldn’t say no and gave in to his advances and married him.*

**Cop 3**: *What happened when you came back into the United States in 2011?*

**WW**: *I had a hard time recognizing the people I knew back then. Some of them because I haven’t seen in a long time, others because how they changed, both physically and mentally. When Becky took me to the graveyard where they put my name on one of the tombstones, She told me everything while I was MIA. But by then I was too mentally fucked-up at the time to care and I walked all the way to a forest in Westerville, where I stayed for three days and then rented an apartment in a hotel to live in.*

**Cop 2**: *When’s the last time you saw him?*

**WW**: When we were cleaning up the last of the stuff in Montoni’s, which closed down in October 2022. I heard that both Mason Jarre and Daniel Larsson want to buy it and run it unlike how my older brother, Funky, did.

**Cop 1**: *Where were you when he died?*

**WW**: *I was taking a walk around the outside of Westview High School-*

**Cop 2**: *Just kidding, we know you’re innocent. You’re free to go. Get your Russian ass out of here before I beat you up and pepper spray you in the face.*

(WW stands up and walks out of the questioning room)