Get Tricks or Die Trying

Just vibin' at the skatepark, doing dangerous tricks.

**Get Tricks or Die Trying** is the 3rd case in Island Investigations, the 3rd case to occur at the docks, as well as the 378th case overall.

## ***Summary***

### **Victim**

* **Henry Francis** **(Found dead in the indoor skate park with his head bashed in)**

## ***Plot***

The morning after Kirsten Maybridge's murder was solved, detective Cody Horn and the player got a tip-off from a beat cop, saying that there was a recent murder at a skate park. We rush over to the scene and find a skater, Rick Amsterdam, shocked while looking towards a dead body. We pull Rick aside and he identifies the victim to be one Henry Francis, another skater at the skate park. We then send his body to the team's coroner, Julia Sanchez, who identifies that the victim was beaten to death by a skateboard. She also found a locket in the victim's hand with her and a girl. We run the girl's face through the database and we find out that her name is Holly Mason, the victim's girlfriend as well as a transfer student who came from the U.S.A. in order to study at the island of Santa Matnette. Holly tells the team that she's devastated that her boyfriend is dead and runs away crying. We then find a beat cop running into our base, he then told the team that he's glad that we came, as he was the cop who found and reported the body. He then proceeds to tell Cody and the player that he saw the victim at a local camp with one of his friends. We then find a phone belonging to Claudia Liechtenstein, another skater who also happens to be a friend of the victim. We tell Claudia about Henry's murder, and she tells the duo that Rick told everyone in the skate park about it. We then find a positive pregnancy test. We then send it to Karen Wilson, the team's lab chief, told the team said that she found urine DNA on it belonging to Holly. We ask Holly about the pregnancy test and she then says that Henry forgot to wear condoms while having sex and that it got her pregnant. She then said that she didn't want a baby so young, while Henry laughed, dumped her, and ran away to the skate park to do a few tricks. We then find a broken skateboard with the words "GO TO JAIL!" carved onto it. We then send the skateboard to Noel Valentine, the team's profiler, who informs the player that the handwriting belonged to the victim and that the skateboard belongs to Rick. Rick tells Cody and the player that somehow Henry found out about his father, Marcus Amsterdam, who killed three different people and went to jail in the U.S.A. Rick explained that he decided to come to Santa Matnette to get away from being associated with his father, but that it didn't stop Henry from picking on him. We then find out, due to Noel's research, that the victim was recently fined for trespassing into the Gurray residence. We immediately realize that the dock owner, Forest Gurray, is the owner of that estate. We immediately interrogate Forrest and he says that Henry stole a lot of cash from his house and spent it all on drugs. He was later arrested for a few days by Michael. Michael said that it wasn't the first time that he had to arrest Henry, as he kept getting in trouble due to drug dealing. After, we find a note that says "Henry, my body is not for sale!" We send the note to Noel, who matches the handwriting to Claudia, who cried while talking to the duo. She claimed that the victim tried to make a pass at her multiple times and almost succeeded in raping her. She tried to report it to the police, but they did nothing. After talking to Claudia, we search The Holy Crab, the restaurant where Holly told Henry she was pregnant at, one last time, and we find enough evidence to arrest the killer.

## ***Killer And Motives***

The killer turned out to be Michael.

Upon admitting to the murder, Michael said that two years ago, he and Henry were romantically involved, before the victim dumped Michael because it wasn't the life he wanted for himself. After, Michael found out about all his criminal deeds and how he was a drug dealer, and that he thought that Michael would arrest him eventually when he'd find out. On top of that, Henry took half of Michael's money when they broke up, almost leaving Michael on the streets. After Henry's parents died, he moved back to the docks and acted like he didn't know Michael. He then saw him with Holly and couldn't bear to see him with her, as he thought he'd hurt her. After seeing Henry touch Holly inappropriately, they ended up fighting and Holly ran away when Michael grabbed Henry's skateboard and hit him until he stopped moving.

Judge Sakura sentenced Michael to 35 years in prison.

## ***Welcome To Santa Matnette! (3/5)***

After arresting Michael, Forest came to the police department and asked us to find all the money that Henry stole from him. We then ask Michael in prison if he knew anything about where Henry had hidden the money, and he said that he usually saw Henry acting suspiciously around the campfire. We rush over there and find a bunch of locked briefcases near the fire that we didn't see before. We unlock the briefcases, only to find giant numbers of cash in there. We immediately bring them back to Forest, who thanks us for helping him. We then get information from Jordan Foster, the team's informant, who tells the team that there was a recent murder that occurred at a nearby famous restaurant at the docks.

## ***Suspects***

Rick Amsterdam (Traits: 1)Holly Mason (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4)Michael Massbender (Traits: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)Claudia Liechtenstein (Traits: 1, 2, 3)Forest Gurray (Traits: 2, 3, 4, 5)