Secrets Unveiled

**Secrets Unveiled** is the twentieth case of Criminal Case: Mystery in the Americas. It is the ninetieth case overall. The second case in Caribbean Netherlands. It is situated in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.

* Previous Case: The Taste of Irony
* Next Case: TBD
* Partner: Manuel Belanger

## Plot

In the city of Philipsburg, which was known for it's seaside, there was high alert as of course Raymond and his goons were in the city, so there is the reason why it’s on high alert. Back at the station, Manuel opened his big mouth wide open saying he haven’t slept well, though we continue with the investigation. We get a call from Venancio that he found his girlfriend Carolina Jiménez murdered, and we need to report to it real quick. We then quickly made our way to the mentioned place, and we noticed Venancio sobbing, Manuel consoles him and we collect the body, there was no signs of struggle, neither stab wounds nor marks on neck, so we were confused. Since Carolina was Venancio's girlfriend, it made him a prime suspect. He tells us that his girlfriend came to Sint Maarten with her sister, and he was to join them today, but when he went there, she was murdered, he says that he had loved her and she is just gone like that. Manuel expresses his sadness over Carolina's demise, though we needed to find her sister, but in the meantime we get a visit from Raymond who says that he wants to talk to them. Raymond pats Manuel's shoulder and invites him for a drink, but he spits in his face. He continues with the fact that Venancio and Carolina were liars, and Carolina was their helper, but we didn’t believe him and left him behind. Manuel says that Raymond was just saying lies.

We later find Carolina's bag which was being held by a woman, we accused her for stealing, but she says her name is Francisca Jiménez, and she is her sister. Now, we got Francisca, so we decide to debrief her and inform her about her sister's demise. We inform Francisca about her sister’s demise and she starts to cry saying that they were very close to each other and it’s sad that she has died and she will kill the one who had did to her dear sister, Manuel now says that he doesn’t even know whether his sister is alive or something, but Francisca kinda looks like her, but he isn’t even sure, whether it is her or not, since she was sunglasses and that was hard to determine. Later, Amaya appears from somewhere, and she wore a strapless red dress with some quite attractive hairstyle, Manuel blushes and asks her what she is up to, she says that she is going to just entertain Felix, but Manuel says it’s something else. Though she refuses, that anything else would happen. Later Braxton approaches us, he was holding pile of books and told us that these book contain something we should know about Cobras Azuis, Manuel then holds up a book and then Braxton keeps others at the desk and runs. Manuel sees the book and there was a wand, normally used by witches, and it had the name of none other than Esmeralda Luisa, so Manuel reads a spell "Come at Me, and Disappear", and suddenly Rüdiger appears with a girl, naked, and he said "What the fuck man, I need some privacy", and Manuel feels awkward and then speaks another spell and he disappeared, Manuel takes a deep breath. We later went to take results from Jacques about the body, according to him, Carolina was pushed from a height so her murder weapon is pushing, and there are no signs of struggle. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Lovisa approaches us saying Floramaria is saying to arrest Venancio.

Mid-investigation, Lovisa says that Floramaria is saying to arrest Venancio, but we don’t know why is she saying that so we decide to ask her the reason why she wants to arrest her own son. She sighs and says that he was very much involved with Carolina and she struck her as very manipulative towards her son, and he has been misbehaving and considered leaving her for Carolina, she also mentions that he has been taking weed and that's why she wants him arrested so charges could be pressed, though we don’t know if Carolina had something to do with it, so we don’t talk to Venancio for now. Later Froy comes to us saying that there is Maurice's operation in three days and we should do it quick, though they considered going back to Canada for this, Manuel says that they totally should, but Froy says his work would be disturbed though Manuel says he might go with Maurice, but Froy suggests that he is needed here, so he may go. Later we find out the victim's diary and there she mentioned meeting with a witch, which was none other than Esmeralda Luisa. Manuel uses the spell to somehow summon Esmeralda and she did, though she was in middle of eating, she cursed Manuel but we interrogate her either ways. We ask if she knew Carolina, she says that she was so obsessed with witches that she wanted everything about her and was following her like a creep but she did meet her saying that at least she had a fan. Later when we talk to her, we find out that Rüdiger had decided to kidnap both Venancio and Carolina as was ordered by Raymond, and of course it was him.

As it followed, we again say the spell and Rüdiger appears again, now Manuel was glad that he had that power, and Rüdiger was making a disgusted face and said why did he summon him for no reason but when we asked him about the alleged kidnapping of Carolina and Venancio, he smirked saying how much he was waiting for it. So Rüdiger starts barking that Raymond told him to kidnap Venancio and Carolina because he could take revenge from Floramaria, though we were shocked that what he had to with Floramaria when all we know that it was Mary Ann, who had problems with him, but Rüdiger says Carolina actually worked for them, saying she made Venancio fall in love with her, and made him do drugs, though kidnapping her with Venancio was just part to throw suspicion off from her, though their real aim to was to just kill off Venancio, we were shocked to know that. Later Esmeralda Luisa appears out of nowhere and tells us that she has something to say, maybe that could help us, though it may cost something, she smirks and then says "O Power of the Realm, Make Disappear the Men, of All Below 25", Manuel was observing nothing happened but Amaya calls us saying Felix disappeared somewhere and Lovisa says Braxton is nowhere to be found, Esmeralda Luisa flies away in the sky, smirking. Manuel was dumbfounded and blamed himself, though we needed to ask Venancio, whether the things said about Carolina were true or just based upon false accusations. Venancio confesses that it was indeed true, saying Carolina was manipulative and forced him to go to drugs and boost in sexual advances, though she used her powers to prevent him to escape from this, he couldn’t do anything, and since she is dead, he is free and now can make himself a better person. Manuel says that this wasn’t the twist he was expecting, though wasn’t sympathetic to Venancio, cause he may be the killer. At the precinct, we were discussing details, Manuel who was worried where did Braxton and Felix disappeared too, and Lovisa comes and adds more anxiety telling us that Amaya was also took by Esmeralda who claimed that she is taking her for "fun".

Mid-investigation, Lovisa tells us that Amaya has also disappeared and took by Esmeralda. Manuel was perplexed that he is too dumb and can’t do anything, so we decide to see Floramaria, who doesn’t blame us since she also knows that we can’t do anything. Though she said that she might talk to Pavati, if she knows something about that. So Manuel calls Pavati, and we ask if she has anything that would make us know where Esmeralda Luisa took Amaya, Braxton and Felix to. Pavati says that she could use some of her powers she got from het ancestors, which was seeing then future, though she gives us some time so she could focus and tell us. Later Alejandra appears, she says that she has been going through a lot of work, though she says that Felix’s disappearance have disheartened her, and she and Natalia are trying to find though to no avail. Natalia appears at the same time, she says that she found out that Rüdiger had offered Carolina to give some hot time to him, but Carolina ignored him in the face, and he threatened to "Open her insides and do wonders with her", Manuel disgusted on this, prepares himself to talk to Rüdiger. While we interrogate Rüdiger that what his aims were, he then smirks saying that he had some intrusive thoughts about Carolina, wanting to kill and then open her insides and use them for his own benefit, as he said this, Manuel starts his fist battle, and Rüdiger who willingly took the punches had blood all over his face, and three of his teeth, and his legs had scars, but he smirked and said that there is no way we could kill him and only few of the people have the power. After we beat Rüdiger, Maurice comes to us, he says that he is leaving for Canada, and then hugs Manuel, and says he will return back with life, Manuel who couldn’t hold back his tears, cried on Maurice’s shoulder and wished him luck, it even became the situation that even Lovisa started to cry. Though we didn’t have time and we needed to find clues to get to the killer

In the end, we had enough evidence to incriminate Francisca Jiménez, the victim's sister. Upon admitting, Francisca smirks and takes off her disguise, and she reveals her none other than Manuel's older sister Amalia Belanger. Manuel was shocked confused, he tries to ask but Amalia laughs off saying that she was indeed Amalia, telling us that Carolina was actually someone whom she had befriended when she was kidnapped by Cobras Azuis, and she took the fake identity of her non existent sister Francisca, saying that she really wanted to escape from her own family, though in these ten years she had conspired with Carolina, who was 15, when they met, and their minds thought alike, she says that she always wanted to join the evil side, and that's why she sought help from Cobras Azuis, and they actually listened to her, and Raymond and Rüdiger had took her away, staging this as kidnapping. Though she continues with the fact that, in all these ten years, both of them had their own way of killing people, but they targeted only teenage boys and girls, saying that she forced them to have sexual relationship with each other, after which they would kill them. Though she mentioned that they did this work secretly and developed a love for one and another, and she was the one who told Carolina to force Venancio for drugs, though recently Carolina started to feel bad about her acts, and wanted to submit to justice, and she had actually fallen for Venancio, this made her angry saying how can she backstab her like that, and pushed Carolina to death, as a traitor deserves. Manuel's mouth was wide open, and couldn’t comprehend that his own sister committed these heinous acts, he didn’t even hoe to act, though Lovisa handcuffed Amalia, but she disappeared and we were again tricked. But this plot twist, really moved us to all dimensions and agony for Manuel.

## Suspects

Venancio Ruiz

Victim's Boyfriend

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect is right handed
* The Suspect watches horror movies
* The Suspect plays bingo

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears sunglasses

Raymond Smith

Snow Monster

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect is right handed
* The Suspect watches horror movies

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears sunglasses

Carolina Jiménez

Victim's Sister

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect is right handed
* The Suspect watches horror movies
* The Suspect plays bingo

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears sunglasses

Esmeralda Luisa Amozoc

Witch

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect is right handed
* The Suspect watches horror movies

Rüdiger Schneider

Sociopath

Suspect's Profile:

* The Suspect is right handed
* The Suspect watches horror movies
* The Suspect plays bingo

Suspect's Appearance:

* The Suspect wears sunglasses

## Killer's Profile

* The Killer is right handed
* The Killer watches horror movies
* The Killer plays bingo
* The Killer weighs under 160 lbs
* The Killer wears sunglasses