Nedaara Townsend

* Casual
* Prison Outfit
* Killer Pose

Arrested Murderer (Formerly)

**Nedaara Townsend** (2017-2042) was a suspect in the murder investigations of Blades member Larriel Stevenson in Blades Striking Blades (Case #3 of Stories Uncaged), Blades member Herold Gibbs in Shards of Rage (Case #4 of Stories Uncaged), and Blades leader Mason Mills where she took over the Blades after his murder and made peace with the Chinese Mob in Turn On The Heat (Case #6 of Stories Uncaged), before killing Blades member Gerard Whitfield in Taste The Blades (Case #9 of Stories Uncaged) and being murdered in The Wrath of God (Case #12 of Stories Uncaged).

## Description

Nedaara was the 25-year-old leader The Blades as well as a former member of the Chinese Mob as well as an arrested murderer. In Blades Striking Blades, it is known that Nedaara drinks Bloody Mary cocktails. In Shards of Rage, it is known that Nedaara drinks beer. In Turn On The Heat, it is known that Nedaara uses aloe vera cream, eats burritos, and knows how to speak Latin. In Taste The Blades, it is known that Nedaara eats tacos, uses face cream, and has a pet chihuahua.

## Events of Stories Uncaged

### Blades Striking Blades

After detective Giles Davis and the player found the corpse of Blades member Larriel Stevenson, Nedaara entered the room and started shouting for Larriel, only to find us taking her corpse to the morgue. Giles and the player then took Nedaara to the station and gave the body to coroner Sullivan Acker before we begun interrogating Nedaara. She told us that she was a Blades member and that Larriel was a member too. Nedaara told us that the owner of the bar where Larriel died in was named Arvin Rowland and she said she needed to go and tell the other Blades members that Larriel was murdered.

Nedaara was spoken to again after field expert Lucas Mitchell told the team that he saw Nedaara and Larriel getting into a fight a few days ago. We asked Nedaara about the fight, and she told us that Larriel kept making fun of her for only being in the gang for eight months when she was in the gang for a year. Nedaara said that she had enough of Larriel's teasing and wanted to set her straight, so she did.

Nedaara was found to be innocent after the team arrested Arvin for Larriel's murder.

After Arvin was arrested and he told them that Yuan Feng was secretly a member of the Blades and his partner Dhar Cochran was affiliated with them too, we asked Nedaara about the money Feng sent to them. Nedaara said that he wanted to weaken The Chinese Mob and Dhar just wanted protection.

### Shards of Rage

Nedaara was first spoken to when detective Connor Stout and the player found her purse at Herold Gibbs' party. We told Nedaara that Herold was murdered, and she acted shocked and then started crying. We decided to leave her alone until she was ready to talk.

Nedaara was spoken to again when tech expert Lillian Henrich found security footage of Nedaara screaming at Herold to leave her alone. We asked Nedaara about this and she told us that Herold told her that she had to make a choice: make out with him or he would tip the police off and get her entire family arrested for her involvement with the Blades. Nedaara said that she was crying of happiness when Herold died because she told her family to retreat from Emerald City and now they can come back.

Nedaara was found to be innocent when the team incarcerated Blades member Chachi Rhodes for Herold's murder.

After Chachi was arrested and the team interrogated retired collector Laszlo Toth about his affiliations with Blades leader Mason Mills and his gang, the team found Nedaara and Chinese mob member Liang Shun beat up and unconscious in Herold's house. They were immediately taken to the hospital and we decided to focus on finding their attacker, before we got a call from Chinese mob leader Yuan Zedong, who told us to meet him at his teahouse since one of his workers was just murdered.

### Turn On The Heat

Nedaara was later interrogated after Connor and the player found a letter Nedaara sent to Blades leader Mason Mills telling him to leave her alone. When we interrogated Nedaara about this, she told us that Mason harassed her often and didn't respect her personal space. She said that all Mason could do when he was around her was touch her and she decided to tell him to leave her alone.

Nedaara was spoken to again when we found security footage of her screaming at Mason for killing her family. When we asked her about this, she told us that there was a wealthy Chinese businessman in her old neighborhood and since Mason couldn't stop himself from being racist and saying that Chinese people are inferior, he decided to start shooting up her neighborhood, and Nedaara was the only survivor. Mason was impressed by the fact that she survived the shooting and took her in.

Nedaara was found to be innocent after the team incarcerated retired collector Laszlo Toth for Mason's murder.

After Laszlo was taken to the hospital due to a heart attack, we learn that Mason knew he was going to die soon so he left Nedaara to be in charge of the Blades. Nedaara said that she's had enough of this needless violence and decided to make peace with Zedong and the Chinese mob. Zedong agreed to this and the two gangs are now at peace.

### Taste The Blades

Nedaara became a suspect after her gun was discovered in Gerard's trophy room. When asked about Gerard's demise, Nedaara was surprised to hear the news, before clasping her head in stress as the gang is deliberately falling due to their members dying one by one. Answering about the weapon, she told the detectives Gerard can be quite a paranoid man, often borrowing her gun for his protection, and she didn't have problems with it.

Nedaara was questioned again after a letter addressed by her was found, and based on Jake's analysis, the writing matches Gerard's. Nedaara confirmed the victim and she used to have secret meetings each night to discuss to strengthen the gang, however, once Gerard suggested Nedaara invest in a shady organization of hackers for profit, which she disagreed on, and the two argued.

In the end, it was revealed that Nedaara was Gerard's killer. Upon admitting to the murder, Nedaara said that she killed Gerard because he was disrespecting the gang rules and tried to make deals alone, that's how the hacker group came into play. They want global strikes and Nedaara wanted to completely stay out of it, but Gerard made the deal without her agreeing on it. She said she had to kill him to prevent the hackers harassing them and to cut off the deal before they get deeply involved.

Judge Palin sentenced Nedaara to 30 years in Emerald City Prison.

After her arrest, Nedaara agreed to tell us what she knows about the hacker group Gerard was making deals with. She says that they are stationed in Inner City but they have people everywhere in the city, and capturing one of them could lead us to their leader. Unfortunately, they all work anonymously and wear masks so it would be impossible to recognize them on the street. She says that Gerard met one of the members in his trophy room, so she advises us to go back and look for anything useful. Nedaara says she heard Gerard talk to them about hacking into every major organization's website to get info and destroy them. Nedaara said that they call themselves "The Saviors" and they want to free the world from corruption. We then send Nedaara back to her cell and we rush to the trophy room, which eventually helps us catch Saviors member Simon Sams.

### Nowhere To Hide

After arresting Saviors member David Steele for Simon's murder, we were told by the fire department that there was a body in the TV room where the Saviors planned to broadcast their brainwashing tapes to the world and "end corruption." Unaware that the body was Nedaara's, we headed to the TV room immediately where we found her corpse.

## Murder Details

Nedaara was found lying on the ground of the TV tower where the Saviors' broadcast was going to be. Sullivan said that Nedaara had a thin rectangular weapon shoved up her mouth until her chin was detached from her skull. Then, in order to make sure she was dead, the killer bashed her on the head several times with the same book before fleeing the scene. Chief Zelma Holmwood then discussed the situations regarding Nedaara's murder with the team and we realized that if Nedaara was in the TV room when she died, then that means that the killer has to be a member of the Saviors, as only they were in the TV room at the time.

## Relationship with Suspects

Back when Mason was the Blades leader, the gang took one of Russian assassin Scarface's colleagues and brutally killed him because they suspected he was affiliated with the Chinese. When Scarface came to Emerald City and realized the Blades were there, he planned to strike down their leader as revenge. Nedaara also butted heads with Saviors member Donnell Watson when she told him that she planned to thwart their plans and prevent them from brainwashing everyone, causing Donnell to get distracted while she hacked into Donnell's phone and indirectly exposed him of being a member of the Saviors to the police. Nedaara also worried Chinese mob leader Yuan Zedong who said that he felt Nedaara, like Mason before her, wasn't going to hold up her end of the bargain and start a war between the two gangs again. Nedaara was also forced by Mason to rob entrepreneur Yazid Shams' entire bank account which he eventually got back. The Blades also recently kidnapped robot Artemis and tried to dismantle her for her parts, before Nedaara interfered and told the members to let her go and leave her alone.

## Killer and Motives

The killer turned out to be Zedong.

Upon admitting to the murder, Zedong said that he was Nedaara's adoptive father and that he took her in when her parents were killed. Zedong then told the team that Nedaara was a promising member of the Chinese mob before she wanted something different and joined the Blades without anyone knowing who she was related to. Zedong then said that Nedaara wanted to make amends with him, so she made peace. However, she knew Zedong was a high-ranking member of the Saviors, and when she broke out of prison to stop their broadcast, Zedong was there to stop her.

Judge Palin sentenced Zedong to twenty-four consecutive life sentences without the possibility for parole in a maximum security prison for Nedaara's murder and several acts of terrorism against Emerald City.

## Case Appearances

* Blades Striking Blades (Case #3 of Stories Uncaged)
* Shards of Rage (Case #4 of Stories Uncaged)
* Turn On The Heat (Case #6 of Stories Uncaged)
* Price Drop (Case #7 of Stories Uncaged; mentioned)
* What Can I Get You? (Case #8 of Stories Uncaged; mentioned)
* Taste The Blades (Case #9 of Stories Uncaged)
* Nowhere To Hide (Case #11 of Stories Uncaged; mentioned)
* The Wrath of God (Case #12 of Stories Uncaged)

## Trivia

* Nedaara was a suspect in four different cases.
* Nedaara appeared in two districts in Stories Uncaged.
* Nedaara appeared in one season.

## Gallery

Nedaara, as she appeared in Blades Striking Blades (Case #3 of Stories Uncaged), Shards of Rage (Case #4 of Stories Uncaged), Turn On The Heat (Case #6 of Stories Uncaged) and Taste The Blades (Case #9 of Stories Uncaged).Nedaara, donning the prison uniform, as she appeared in The Wrath of God (Case #12 of Stories Uncaged).Nedaara's body.Yuan Zedong, Nedaara's adoptive father and killer.Yuan Feng, Nedaara's late adoptive brother.