Murderous Waters

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**Murderous Waters** is the first case in Island Investigations as well as the 1st case to occur in the docks.

## ***Summary***

### **Victim**

* **Wan Jin** **(Stabbed multiple times in the docks seaside)**

## ***Plot***

After retiring from the American police force, the player got an exciting invitation to come to **Santa Matnette** in England to work in their **police force**. The player's instructions were to meet **Cody Horn**, a police officer, who would take them to their police station, where the player would have a proper introduction with the team. When the player meets up with Cody, however, things do not go as planned, as we found a dead man stabbed with a fishing spear in front of a lighthouse. We enter the lighthouse and find a woman, who tells the team that her name is **Wan Guanting** and that she's been looking for her husband everywhere. We bring her to the lighthouse's back, and she tells the team that that dead man, **Wan Jin**, is, or rather was her husband. After talking to Wan, the victim's body is sent off to **Julia Sanchez**, the team's coroner. We then find a smudge near the victim's body. We collect a sample and send it to **Karen Wilson**, the team's lab chief. Julia managed to find ocean water and fishing rod wood on the victim. She said that the victim never fished. Hence, the killer goes fishing. When we meet Karen, she's complaining about a rude employee to the store's manager. After she hangs up the phone, Karen tells the duo that she does that often and the smudge was a fancy type of cheese. After asking Julia if it was in the victim's stomach, she said that the victim's stomach was empty, so it must be the killer who eats cheese. Immediately after, she ran to go and get a quick cup of coffee, and that she met this extremely rude employee there who wouldn't refund her drink after it tasted like garbage. We leave her to yell at her phone while we decide to search the lighthouse entrance, where we find a broken vase. We send it to Karen, who finds DNA belonging to **Ali Srour** on it. We ask Ali about the broken vase, and he said that his latest customer, Wan Jin, bought a vase from his store and must have accidentally dropped it, breaking it. We then find an underground lab below the lighthouse belonging to **Aubrey Nottingham**. We ask Aubrey about the victim's lighthouse, and she said that the victim doesn't own the lighthouse, he just lives there with his wife. She said that the lighthouse actually belongs to **Forest Gurray**, a CEO and the docks' owner. When the duo decides to talk to Forest, he tells them that he had no idea that Wan is dead, and that he'll do anything he can in his power to help us bring the killer to justice. He told us that Wan was one of his best dock workers and was admired by all and that he'll be greatly missed. He then told us to speak with one of the docks workers who worked with the victim often, **Tycen Joyner**. We ask Tycen about the victim, and he said he spent most of his time working. We then find a security camera of the victim and Ali arguing, with Wan calling him a "thief" and a "liar" and Ali storming off. We ask Ali what the argument was about, and he said that Wan made false accusations, saying that he saw him steal small things from the market in order to sell them. Ali promised us these were not true and that Wan probably saw someone else stealing that looked like him. Ali then went on to say that he is an Egyptian immigrant and that he wouldn't jeopardize his place in Santa Matnette by killing him over it. We then find a note from Aubrey, saying "Wan, you drunken fool! Don't come near here ever again!" We then send the note to **Noel Valentine**, the team's profiler, who says that the handwriting perfectly matches Aubrey's. When we grill Aubrey about her note to the victim, she told the team that one night, Wan got extremely drunk and ran into her lab, breaking everything. It took Aubrey months to repair everything Wan broke. When he came down to apologize, she screamed at him to get out. We then find the victim's phone and send it to the team's tech expert, **Nicholas Madigan**. Nicholas introduces himself to the player and tells him that the phone belongs to the victim, and he had some pretty heated texts with his wife on it. He told her to get out of his lighthouse and he even called her a "filthy smoker." When we ask Wan about these messages, she told the duo that her husband wanted her to move out due to her smoking addiction. We then find a note saying "Screw you, I'm out!" with similar handwriting to the victims. We then realize he could have only said this to his boss, Forrest, who told the team that the victim wanted to leave him and that he didn't want to allow it. He was going to leave today, but that someone got to him before he could leave. We then ask Tycen if we knew about it, and he said he didn't but it was about time, since the victim did absolutely no work, leaving it all to him. We take one last look around the lighthouse entrance and Cody and the player find enough evidence to arrest the killer.

## ***Killer And Motives***

The killer turned out to be Ali.

Upon admitting to the murder, Ali told Cody and the player that Wan's original accusations against him were actually true and that he was going to report him to the police over it. Ali said that he stole the small items from the shop in order to resell them for money in order to feed his family. He then told the team that he is an Egyptian immigrant with a wife and a three-year-old daughter, and they fled to Santa Matnette because they feared they would die. Wan confronted Ali at the docks and Ali decided that he needed to prevent the victim from reporting him and that the only way out of it was murder.

**Judge Sakura** sentenced Ali to 32 years in prison.

## ***Welcome To Santa Matnette! (1/5)***

After arresting Ali, we talk to **Takahashi Sakura**, the team's judge, to assure that Ali's wife and children are protected by the government. Takahashi then sighs and tells the team that they were already deported back to Egypt as they didn't want them to get in trouble in Santa Matnette, especially since Wan was an important member of the community. We then look into Forest's dock laboratories with Noel, and we don't find anything wrong. We then get word from **Jordan Foster**, the team's informant, saying that there has been a recent murder nearby and that we should rush towards there.

## ***Suspects***

***Wan Guanting (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 5)Ali Srour (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Aubrey Nottingham (Traits: 1)Forest Gurray (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4)Tycen Joyner (Traits: 2, 3, 4, 5)***
## ***Quasi-Suspects***

***Takahashi SakuraNoel ValentineJordan Foster***