Jordan Burns

**Jordan Burns** (1955-2007) was the victim in Traditional Murder (Case #10 of Modern Crimes).

## Description

Jordan was a 52-year-old wine expert as well as the uncle of Lily Burns.

## Murder Details

After realizing that someone was stealing all the wine in Grimsborough and selling it on the black market and also using it to drunken up some people against their will, we decided to pay the vineyard a visit, where we saw Jordan's head bashed with a barrel. Detective Otis Newman immediately recognized Jordan as the most famous wine expert in Grimsborough and we sent him to the morgue, where we were told that Jordan was still alive but unconscious when we first saw his body and that he died on the way to the morgue. The coroner then found a wipe in Jordan's pocket that was residue to clean piano keys. Since Jordan never played the piano, it was easy to deduce that the killer is the one who plays the piano.

## Relationship with Suspects

Jordan heavily criticized author Wendy Tucker's new book about wine as she got many terms wrong. Normally, Wendy would be fine with this, but Jordan's criticism was so bad that it made Wendy look like a fool. Singer Jaiden Clegg blamed Jordan for the whole wine scandal since he was the one who had the closest contact to it. Jordan also constantly offered wine to his niece, Lily Burns, who kept saying she wasn't interested. Jordan also tried to get gamer Jake Bloom to drink because "he didn't have a life." Jordan also sold lots of his wine to grocery store owner Jesse Trosser in order to make a profit, even though Jesse had no idea regarding what to do with all that wine.

## Killer and Motives

The killer turned out to be Jesse.

Upon admitting to the murder, Jesse said that he had no idea regarding what to do with all the wine until he met someone who was willing to take them and more off his shoulders and give him enough money to leave the city and retire. Jesse accepted this offer and begun stealing wines for this anonymous person, and he slipped high alcohol wines into anyone who got in his way's drinks. Jesse traded and sold them on the black market to this person. However, Jordan caught him stealing from the vineyard he was doing a tasting at. He knew that Jordan would probably call the police, so he grabbed the barrel he was smuggling and bashed Jordan on the head.

Jesse was sentenced to life imprisonment.

After Jesse's arrest, we came to him and told him that we would get his sentence reduced if he was willing to talk, so he spilled everything. He said that he doesn't know who he was smuggling the wine for since they only chatted online, but he gave us the location he dropped the wines off at. However, when we got there, we realized that Lily was there, panicking. When we asked her what was going on, she begged us to not arrest her if she talked. We agreed and took her to the station, where she told us that Jordan was the one who masterminded the wine smuggling because he wasn't making enough money and sold the wine smuggled by Jesse and used his title as a wine expert to make people buy from him. She said that Jordan mainly sold the wines to an anonymous source who would use the wine to drunken up certain parts of Grimsborough by sneaking the high-alcohol wine into the water supply. Lily said that Jordan forced her into it and said that if she refused he would pin everything on her and get her arrested. Lily then said she overheard Jordan saying he wanted to meet Jesse in person to take the wines off his shoulders, and that was why he was at the vineyard. We let Lily go and went to where the water supply was to prevent more wine from going in, only for us to realize that there was a murder at a nearby studio.

## Aftermath

### Up To Your Doom

It was later revealed that student Zachary Rutherford masterminded the wine smuggling and was an accomplice to Jordan's murder as he tried to cover up his body after Jesse left it. Zachary said he needed a method to distract people from his plans, so he decided to drunken up the entire city so he could release his robot duplicates of the late Courtney Baldwin.

## Case Appearances

* Traditional Murder (Case #10 of Modern Crimes)
* Up To Your Doom (Case #27 of Modern Crimes; mentioned)

## Trivia

* Jordan appeared in one case.
* Jordan appeared in one district in Modern Crimes.
* Jordan appeared in one season.

## Gallery

Jordan, as he appeared in Traditional Murder (Case #10 of Modern Crimes).Jesse Trosser, Jordan's killer.Zachary Rutherford, a late accomplice to Jordan's murder.Lily Burns, Jordan's niece.