Instant Regrets

**Instant Regrets** is the 2nd case of Stories Uncaged, the second case to occur in Downtown, as well as the 460th case overall.

## **Killer And Motives**

The killer turned out to be Sonja.

Dhar hired Sonja to do design jobs for him, which allowed her to look into his business deals, where she realized that Dhar was stealing all the money he was raising for charities and never actually provided them with any money, which caused several orphanages to close down. When Sonja confronted Dhar about it, he threatened Sonja with shutting her up forever if she opens her mouth. Sonja pretended to agree and waited for Dhar to turn his back on her, giving her an opportunity to end many people's suffering.

## **The City of New Hope (2/6)**

After arresting Sonja, we take her in for further questioning. We ask Sonja about the money Dhar stole for himself so we can find out what he did with it. Sonja told us that Dhar always had documents on his person and she saw large amounts of money on them which she took with her after the murder as proof of his wrongdoings. We realize that this could provide us with an oversight of the money scheme, so we ask her where she hid it. Sonja said that some were at the studio but she knew that most of them were at a restaurant and were hidden there by Dhar who always spent his free time there. We later find a hidden safe in the bar counter and we send it to Jake. He told us that the money was full of the remaining documents and that they weren’t promising at all. He told us that Dhar was secretly in close contact with the Chinese mob and most of the money he stole went to their bank accounts as an “investment.” Leslie then manages to bring Zedong in and we interrogate him about the money. Zedong says that nobody in the mob has worked with money recently and that he doesn’t know who Dhar even is. We obviously know it's a lie, since the documents were filled with Zedong's name, so we ask Lillian to look up the bank account that the money was sent to, and it's proven to be the property of a certain Yuan Feng. We ask Zedong about it and he said that he never knew about his son's business with Dhar, but he claims that Feng was afraid of getting caught, so Feng tried to frame him to get him arrested. He told us that he knew Feng tried getting him arrested several times so he could leave the gang and have a happily ever after with Ruby, who he didn’t want to tell since he was certain she would’ve blown everything. He said he’s certain that Feng and Dhar tried to frame him. We then get Lillian to look through Feng's contact list again and we find Dhar's telephone number, which confirms that they were in contact. We still don't know what Dhar's reason to give the money to Feng was, so we gave the documents back to Jake and started looking for more leads. We paid Sonja another visit in prison and we asked her about Dhar's connection with Feng. She said that this Feng guy kept visiting the shoots, but she always just saw them talking and having a coffee at the restaurant, although she always suspected Dhar had some shady business with Feng. As soon as we arrive back at the station, Jake rushes up to us and says that he found coordinates on one of the papers that leads to a bar not far from the studio. There was also a text on the paper that said "Transaction point" which confirms that Dhar and Feng were bringing the money there to give it to someone. We ask Lucas to put on a disguise and head to the bar and have a look around. We keep contact with him through our phones until he reaches the bar, but before he can report the situation to us, we hear screams and shouting. Lucas tells us that he’s going to see what’s going on and hangs up, so we get orders from Zelma to rush to the bar and see what's going on.

## **Killer's Profile**

* **The killer drinks lemonade.**
* **The killer takes painkillers.**
* **The killer owns a pet guinea pig.**
* **The killer has black hair.**
* **The killer wears nose ring.**