Santa Matnette Police Force

The **Santa Matnette Police Force** is the main protagonist group in Island Investigations.

## Events in Island Investigations

### **Murderous Waters**

After retiring from the American police force, the player got an exciting invitation to come to Santa Matnette in England to work in their **police force**. The player's instructions were to meet Cody Horn, a police officer, who would take them to their police station, where the player would have a proper introduction with the team. When the player meets up with Cody, however, things do not go as planned, as we found a dead man stabbed with a fishing spear in front of a lighthouse. We enter the lighthouse and find a woman, who tells the team that her name is Wan Guanting and that she's been looking for her husband everywhere. We bring her to the lighthouse's back, and she tells the team that that dead man, Wan Jin, is, or rather was her husband. After talking to Wan, the victim's body is sent off to Julia Sanchez, the team's coroner. We then find a smudge near the victim's body. We collect a sample and send it to Karen Wilson, the team's lab chief. Julia managed to find ocean water and fishing rod wood on the victim. After getting Noel Valentine, the team's profiler, to ask the victim's wife if he fishes, she said no. Hence, the killer goes fishing. When we meet Karen, she's complaining about a rude employee to the store's manager. After she hangs up the phone, Karen tells the duo that she does that often and the smudge was a fancy type of cheese. After asking Julia if it was in the victim's stomach, she said no, so it must be the killer who eats cheese. Immediately after, she ran to go and get a quick cup of coffee, and that she met this extremely rude employee there who wouldn't refund her drink after it tasted like garbage. We leave her to yell at her phone while we decide to search the lighthouse entrance, where we find a broken vase. We send it to Karen, who finds DNA belonging to Ali Srour on it. We ask Ali about the broken vase, and he said that his latest customer, Wan Jin, bought a vase from his store and must have accidentally dropped it, breaking it. We then find an underground lab below the lighthouse belonging to Aubrey Nottingham. We ask Aubrey about the victim's lighthouse, and she said that the victim doesn't own the lighthouse, he just lives there with his wife. She said that the lighthouse actually belongs to Forest Gurray, a CEO and the docks' owner. When the duo decides to talk to Forest, he tells them that he had no idea that Wan is dead, and that he'll do anything he can in his power to help us bring the killer to justice. He told us that Wan was one of his best dock workers and was admired by all and that he'll be greatly missed. He then told us to speak with one of the docks workers who worked with the victim often, Tycen Joyner. We ask Tycen about the victim, and he said he spent most of his time working. We then find a security camera of the victim and Ali arguing, with Wan calling him a "thief" and a "liar" and Ali storming off. We ask Ali what the argument was about, and he said that Wan made false accusations, saying that he saw him steal small things from the market in order to sell them. Ali promised us these were not true and that Wan probably saw someone else stealing that looked like him. Ali then went on to say that he is an Egyptian immigrant and that he wouldn't jeopardize his place in Santa Matnette by killing him over it. We then find a note from Aubrey, saying "Wan, you drunken fool! Don't come near here ever again!" We then send the note to Noel, who says that the handwriting perfectly matches Aubrey's. When we grill Aubrey about her note to the victim, she told the team that one night, Wan got extremely drunk and ran into her lab, breaking everything. It took Aubrey months to repair everything Wan broke. When he came down to apologize, she screamed at him to get out. We then find the victim's phone and send it to the team's tech expert, Nicholas Madigan. Nicholas introduces himself to the player and tells him that the phone belongs to the victim, and he had some pretty heated texts with his wife on it. He told her to get out of his lighthouse and he even called her a "filthy smoker." When we ask Wan about these messages, she told the duo that her husband wanted her to move out due to her smoking addiction. We then find a note saying "Screw you, I'm out!" with similar handwriting to the victims. We then realize he could have only said this to his boss, Forrest, who told the team that the victim wanted to leave him and that he didn't want to allow it. He was going to leave today, but that someone got to him before he could leave. We then ask Tycen if we knew about it, and he said he didn't but it was about time, since the victim did absolutely no work, leaving it all to him. We take one last look around the lighthouse entrance and Cody and the player find enough evidence to arrest the killer. The killer turned out to be Ali. Upon admitting to the murder, Ali told Cody and the player that Wan's original accusations against him were actually true and that he was going to report him to the police over it. Ali said that he stole the small items from the shop in order to resell them for money in order to feed his family. He then told the team that he is an Egyptian immigrant with a wife and a three-year-old daughter, and they fled to Santa Matnette because they feared they would die. Wan confronted Ali at the docks and Ali decided that he needed to prevent the victim from reporting him and that the only way out of it was murder.

Judge Sakura sentenced Ali to 32 years in prison.

After arresting Ali, we talk to Takahashi Sakura, the team's judge, to assure that Ali's wife and children are protected by the government. Takahashi then sighs and tells the team that they were already deported back to Egypt as they didn't want them to get in trouble in Santa Matnette, especially since Wan was an important member of the community. We then look into Forest's dock laboratories with Noel, and we don't find anything wrong. We then get word from Jordan Foster, the team's informant, saying that there has been a recent murder nearby and that we should rush towards there.

### **Rest In Grease**

After **arriving at Santa Matnette**, the player found out about a recent murder that happened in front of a tiny store. We met up with detective Leo Lennox and rushed to the scene. The team's chief, Emma Jansen, told the duo to rush in one of their police cars, but Leo insisted on taking the player in his million-dollar Ferrari instead. We immediately found the scene, only to find a woman drowned in grease. We scan the woman's face through the police database and we find out that the victim's name is **Kirsten Maybridge**. We look at her record, and we see that she used to be **a dead famous actor**'s assistant and that she moved to **Santa Matnette** not long ago in order to start a new life. We then find a picture of her and another girl not far from the crime scene. We identify her face in the database and find out the other person in the picture was **Fiona Wells**, a friend of the victim. When we ask Fiona about the victim, she starts sobbing after hearing about the loss of one of her best friends. Also at the scene of the crime, we find a phone belonging to **Justin Timbersea**. We then realize that he's the manager of the shop the victim died in front of. We immediately find Justin closing down his store for the day, and we tell him about Kirsten's demise. He tells us that he didn't see anything and that he'll keep his eye out for anything suspicious around his store. We then go to the store next door, which is a bike store. We discover that the victim had been a part-time employee there and that she changed her appearance dramatically so nobody would recognize her. We then find a bike in the store. We analyze a name tag on it and send it to **Noel Valentine**, the team's profiler. Noel tells the team that the bike belongs to **Ryan Jones**, a famous artist who moved to Santa Matnette recently. When we ask Ryan about the bike, he tells the team that it recently broke down next to a nearby bike shop. He carried it in and waited for it to get fixed. He was told to pick it up at 4:00 PM, but when he got there he didn't see anyone around. He immediately left back to his apartment with his bike. We then look around the bike store some more and we find a cash register with an orange stain on it. After sending the cash register to **Karen Wilson**, the team's lab chief, she was able to confirm that she found a DNA match, belonging to **Reuben Thomas**, the bike store's cashier. She then went on to mention that Reuben was quite rude to her when he repaired her bike since he took a while and it was still broken afterward. She then went on to say that she called the manager, but they refused to speak with her because they were rude. We then talk to this Reuben, who tells Leo and the player that he was busy fixing bikes all day but took a break around 4:00 PM. We then find a necklace belonging to **Annalee Burch**. Karen was able to confirm that the DNA on the necklace belonged to Kirsten. We ask Annalee about the necklace, and she says that as a socialite, she must have dropped it in a hurry to a party and that Kirsten just must've picked it up. We then find a security camera, which we send to **Nicholas Madigan**, the team's tech expert. Nicholas told the team that the footage on the security camera showed a heated argument between Kirsten and Ryan. After grilling Ryan, he said that he recognized Kirsten as the famous actress's assistant and that he wanted her autograph. She got furious due to this and refused to fix his bike. The next day she was fired. We also find a job application for Joe's Grocery. We talk to Justin about this and he said he immediately turned down the offer as he saw her and Ryan arguing at the bike store. We then find a stolen car, belonging to Fiona. Fiona then furiously said that Kirsten stole her car because she wanted to feel rich again, like seven years ago when she was working for the **late** **Donna Streep**. We then discover that Annalee's necklace was in the "STOLEN ITEMS" section of a magazine we found at the bike store. Annalee then said that Kirsten ripped the necklace off of her in order to sell it for money. We then find out that Kirsten was suggestive towards Reuben several times, but that he declined her offers. Reuben said that Kirsten kept trying to make a move on him when he made it very clear to her that he was not into her at all. After interrogating Reuben and doing one last quick sweep around the victim's bedroom, we finally have all the evidence we need to arrest Kirsten's killer.

The killer turned out to be Reuben.

Upon admitting to the murder, he said that after leaving the US because of financial and work problems, Kirsten settled down in Santa Matnette and became quite poor and without a job. She and Rueben became friends, and Kirsten usually went to him for money and free stuff, but she kept begging for more and more, which Reuben fired from the store. He later found out that all the money Kirsten asked for was spent at casinos. Reuben couldn't handle it and used the nearby grease barrel as a method to end her suffering.

**Judge Sakura** sentenced Reuben to life in prison.

After arresting Reuben, we continue our investigation into the dock laboratories in Santa Matnette. We then meet up once again with **Forest Gurray**, a CEO and the owner of the docks, who tells us that Kirsten had some information about the docks she stole from him in exchange for money. We search through her bedroom and find a blueprint that harms the environment tremendously. We tell Forest to stop and he agrees. After the player meets up with Leo and the two take a stroll around town to see everything going on. The next morning, **Cody Horn** and the player get an urgent call from **Jordan Foster**, the team's informant, who tells us about a murder that happened not far from the police station.

### **Get Tricks or Die Trying**

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.

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.

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.

### **A Big Sip**

After getting a call from Jordan Foster, the team's informant, the team rushes to a space bar in order to pick up a dead body. We rush over there and we find an old lady's poisoned body on one of the bar seats. We look around to see if we find anybody in the building and we find Luca Richardson, the bartender, closing down for the night. Leo Lennox and the player immediately bring Luca aside and interrogate him about the murder. We take him to where the victim was sitting, and he identifies her to be one Anna Bosko, who often came to the bar. We search around the bar and we find John Presley, a drunk bar frequented, singing to himself backstage. The backstage area was muted, which was why we couldn't hear him beforehand. We then find a tablet at the bar belonging to Annalee Burch, the socialite we met while investigating Kirsten Maybridge's murder. We ask Annalee about the tablet and she said that she often came to the bar to get drinks and because she wanted to hang out with Luca, a good friend of her father's. We then hear that a famous singer is coming to sing at the bar and that the security must be raised, especially with a killer on the loose. We welcome the singer, Katie The Werewolf, into the bar, and she ignores us. Confused, we ask her about Anna's murder. Katie said that she didn't see anything as she wasn't at the bar until now and that we should leave her alone. Annoyed, she leaves. We then find a restraining order between Katie and Justin Timbersea, whom we also met while investigating Kirsten's murder. We ask Justin why he has a restraining order on Katie, and he said that at first, he was a big fan of her music, and when he wanted to get her autograph, she slapped him and told him to get his head out of the clouds. We then decide to keep a closer eye on Katie. We then find a piece of paper with a bunch of scribbles on it. The only word we can make out of it is a very sloppily written "Anna!" We immediately send the letter to Noel Valentine, the team's profiler, who says that he couldn't make out what anything was or who wrote it, apart from that it must have been written by someone extremely drunk and/or high. Immediately, one person comes to our mind: John. We then meet up with a sober John, who said that he was hitting on Anna and sent her a letter about it. When she said no, he kicked her and ran away backstage. He also said that Luca, the bartender, saw it and did absolutely nothing about it and just gave Anna a growl. We ask Luca about it and he tells the duo that Anna was somewhat arrogant. He said that she said in 2005 when she was still attached to her conjoined twin, their house was blown up by a cult member. After, Anna came to the island of Santa Matnette to work and provide money for her family. Anna admitted to keeping all the money for herself and kept disrespecting Luca, who worked extra hard for her, and that she didn't tip him or say anything. After, we find a pendant with Anna and a man on it. We analyze the man, to be Frank Foreman, a wealthy businessman who recently passed away a year ago due to cancer. We realize that he was Anna's husband who made many business deals with Justin. We ask Justin about Anna's husband, and he said that he did not only see him as a business friend but also a friend in real life as well. We then find a Latin slab saying "Anna must pay" on it. We send it to Karen Wilson, the team's lab chief, who says that she analyzed fingerprints on it belonging to Annalee. We ask her about the slab and she says that her sister, Ramona Burch, recently passed away. She worked at Anna's company and when she died all Anna did was laugh and ignore it, since she hated Ramona. After our talk with Annalee, we decide to search the backstage area one more time and we discover who the killer is.

The killer turned out to be Justin.

Upon admitting to the murder, Justin said that one of Frank's deals ended up being a failure and he lost all of his money. Justin wanted all his money back and threatened Frank to give it to him or bad things will happen to him and his family. Frank got sick and hospitalized, where he soon died. Justin fulfilled his promise and killed Anna since she was married to Frank.

Judge Sakura sentenced Justin to life in prison without parole.

After arresting Justin, we get a call from Luca*,* saying that there were a few blood stains and other things related to the murder that is still at the bar. We search around and find a paper, saying "You will pay, Frank! You're a dead man!" We send the note to Noel and Nicholas Madigan, the team's tech expert. They both check into the hospital records and we discover that Justin, in fact, did not kill Frank, as he got lung cancer from smoking too many cigarettes. We then get a call from Aubrey Nottingham, a lab assistant who we met during our first case. She tells the team about a secret entrance going into a laboratory and that bad things are going on at the docks of Santa Matnette. She tells the team to be careful and we go into the entrance and hear a scream.

### **Truth Lies Beneath**

After getting a call from Aubrey Nottingham, a lab assistant at the docks, Cody Horn and the player rush to the secret entrance she told the team about. We enter it and find a scary-looking laboratory. We then find a disassembled body. We instantly realize that the body is Aubrey and we rush it to Julia Sanchez, the team's coroner. She tells the team that her head, legs, and arms were all cut off from her torso. She said to be on the lookout for a chainsaw, as only something with that type of strength could tear up a body like that. We then find Wan Guanting, who we met during her husband's murder, jogging around the location of the lab. We bring her in for interrogation and she says that she was going for a jog to stay in shape when she saw an open tunnel going underground. She said she was planning on doing a little exploring but she saw the duo coming out with Aubrey's body and she ran away. We then find a picture of two young girls at the scene of the crime. We easily figure out that one of the girls is Aubrey, and that the other girl in the picture looks familiar, but we can't place her. We then send the picture to Noel Valentine, the team's profiler, who says that he analyzed the other girl in the picture and that her name is Fiona Wells. We instantly realized that we met Fiona during Kirsten Maybridge's murder and that she was a dancer whose dance studio was near the secret laboratory. We tell Fiona about Aubrey's murder and she says she isn't surprised, and that she was involved in a lot of illegal dealings recently. We then realize that the lab is on the docks and that three different people were murdered on the docks. We then decide that this is enough evidence to arrest the owner of the docks, Forest Gurray. We proceed to arrest Forest, who claims to have nothing to do with an underground laboratory. Immediately after, we swarm the experiment room, where we find multiple boxes that had fingerprints on them. We send the fingerprints to Karen Wilson, the team's lab chief, who is still extremely happy that we arrested Justin Timbersea, a manager, during our last case. She then tells the team that the fingerprints on the boxes belong to one Tycen Joyner, a worker at the docks who we met during Wan Jin's murder. We ask Tycen what he was doing in the underground lab and he said that he was told by Bernard Newton, a scientist in the underground laboratories, ordered him to bring down the boxes. Bernard refused to tell Tycen what was inside the boxes and Tycen didn't want to lose his job, so he just brought down the boxes. We tell Tycen to not return to the lab at all costs and we look for Bernard. When we finally find him, we immediately incarcerate him. He tells the team that there were experiments going on for years in the laboratory and that when the boss figures out that we incarcerated him, they're going to be furious. We immediately think that "the boss" that he's referring to is Forest, as he's the owner of the docks. We go to the cell where we're keeping Forest, and he said that he isn't this "boss" that Bernard was speaking of, and that he hired a head scientist years ago to conduct some groundbreaking experiments. He said that he often had to cut corners in order to do this and that we should've just stayed out of his way. He said that if we want to know more about Aubrey, we should talk to Fiona again, as they've basically known each other their whole life. He also mentioned that Fiona doesn't work in the lab but that she knew about it and did nothing. When we ask Fiona about this, she said that Aubrey told her about how dangerous it was to work in the lab and that she feels that someone is after her. Fiona tried to comfort her about it, but now that Aubrey's dead she worries that they're going to target her next. We tell Fiona not to worry and she asks us to put her in custody to keep her safe. We do as she asks and said that she only wants to be released after the lab is shut down and everyone involved is arrested. She said that she mentioned seeing someone that looks like Tycen bringing down several boxes, not just one, multiple times a day. She was scared of reporting it because she thought someone would murder her over it. We talk to Tycen again after putting Fiona in custody for the time being. Tycen then said that he didn't want to say anything else about it because he, like Fiona, feared his life. He said that Bernard and Forest were brutal with him and they both threatened to kill him if he talked, mainly Bernard. We ask Bernard about his death threats to Tycen and he said that he and Aubrey both wanted out. Bernard said that he couldn't have that or else the lab would surely perish. We then find the victim's phone. The last person Aubrey texted was Wan Jin, whose murder was solved in our first case. Wan said many suggestive things to Aubrey in these messages, and Aubrey kept telling him to stop texting her. We realize that Wan Jin is dead, but that his wife, Wan Guanting, is still alive and well. Wan tells Cody and the player that she knew about her husband's perverted texts to Aubrey and that she saw her as a slut. We tell Wan that Aubrey blocked Wan after she had enough of the texts and she called us liars. After interrogating Wan and getting absolutely nowhere with them, we take one last look around the scene of the crime and find enough evidence to arrest the killer.

The killer turned out to be Wan.

Upon admitting to the murder, Wan revealed herself to be the head scientist of the Santa Matnette Lab Industries, and that she oversaw everything going on in the lab. She said that Aubrey wanted to leave the laboratories and report the whole lab scheme to the police. Aubrey was packing up her things when Wan entered with a chainsaw, telling Aubrey she could make one final call. Aubrey called the team because she knew that if anyone could stop the lab scheme and the crooked scientists behind it, it would be us. Wan then disassembled her and used her body parts for experiments. After she heard the team coming down, she realized that she didn't have enough time to hide the body parts and she left them in the room where she died, before escaping through the backdoor just in time.

Judge Sakura sentenced Wan to life in prison in solitary confinement.

After arresting Wan, Takahashi Sakura, the team's judge, said that she sentenced Forest to 45 years in prison without parole and sentenced Bernard to 30 years without parole. We interrogate Forest again and he tells the team that he had many illegal dealings in Matnette Industries with many corrupt individuals. Immediately after, we head to Matnette Industries.