Dead Smart

**Dead Smart** is the nineteenth case in Murderworlds: Zorro Island. It takes place in the Education Area, and Axelle assists in the investigation, with Ellis joining in part way through.

## Dead Smart

### Partner(s)

Axelle Vasquez  (All Chapters)
 Ellis Mandelio  (Chapters 2 & 3)

## Plot

Having arrived at the spot of the academic decathlon, Axelle and the player note the sheer amount of people, before getting a video call from Ellis, who is with Adora Mandelio in hospital. They then point them towards where Oak Tree Academy's team is based, as the team greet them. However, Axelle and the player notice something amiss, as they go outside the building to find the body of Jan Kaminski, who was stabbed in the neck.

Mid-investigation, Ellis joined the case, having left Ignacio Rubio with Adora, as Axelle, Ellis and the player then defused a riot after the decathlon was cancelled. Later on, the team were forced to restrain Adriana Sanchez after she attempted to flee the decathlon centre, and Ellis got into a verbal spat with Dylan Summers over the nature of Jan's death. In the end, however, the killer was revealed to be the victim's best friend, decathlon team leader Yves Moreau.

Despite an extreme amount of denial, Yves eventually snapped and confessed to the crime. Before the decathlon, Yves had stumbled upon what Jan had been writing about the Secret Society, which he happened to be a member of, as Jan had correctly guessed almost all of the main members. Desperate not to let the truth be revealed, Yves tricked Jan into coming to the decathlon, as he stabbed him with a fountain pen outside and left him for dead. Absolutely disgusted by the act of self-preservation, Judge Vargas sentenced Yves to 32 years in prison for the murder of Jan Kaminski.

Post-case, Ellis returned to Adora, as Ignacio revealed Adora had been rambling about Zoe Leung, who was still meant to be in prison. However, upon further investigation by Alita and the player, they discovered Zoe had been transferred to a mental health facility following a psychotic break, which mildly explained why Adora seemed so out of it - since the nearest institute was far in the Woodlands, near where Erica Harmer was murdered. After this, Adora eventually came to, as she explained that she had gone to see Zoe to deal with some issues, but had ended up stuck there when a rain storm occurred, allowing Dr. Alan Gilbert to infiltrate her mind, as the detectives learnt that Gilbert had been released from prison for his crimes.

Meanwhile, Axelle and the player spoke to Yves in prison, where he informed them that the day of reckoning was upon the society, as he began rattling off more members, including Aurora Keyes, Sutton Foster, Na'eemah Aziz and Dylan, as the "six forces of evil" would invoke the "winds of change" on the school, as the detectives went back to the decathlon centre to see if they'd missed anything. Upon finding a book about the Secret Society belonging to Yves, the detectives found out that their leader would be sacrificed soon enough, as they began frantically attempting to figure out who the leader was before they were killed.

After the events, Ellis returned to headquarters having been briefed on the latest information, as they promised to help take down the Secret Society before the sacrifice could ever take place. Juan Culebra and Chief Mendes then approached the team and informed them that something monumental had just happened that changed the course of the investigation completely: they had found the society's hideout.

## Summary

#### Victim

* **Jan Kaminski** (stabbed in the neck three times)

## Suspects

* Dylan Summers - Decathlon Team Member - The suspects uses Mathsline and wears blue.
* Yves Moreau - Decathlon Team Leader - The suspect knows anatomy, listens to *Guess What?!*, uses Mathsline, wears blue and has a scratch.
* Adriana Sanchez - Student - The suspect knows anatomy, uses Mathsline, wears blue and has a scratch.
* Sutton Foster - Decathlon Team Member - The suspect knows anatomy and listens to *Guess What?!*.
* Aurora Keyes - Student - The suspect listens to *Guess What?!* and has a scratch.

## Killer's Profile

* The suspects knows anatomy.
* The suspect listens to *Guess What?!*.
* The suspect uses Mathsline.
* The suspect wears blue.
* The suspect has a scratch.

## Crime Scenes

 Decathlon Centre
 Botanical Garden