Ace's Notes
(OOC: It's been almost two weeks since our last session of Supernatural. Here are the notes I took about Ace's new locked-room mystery.)
The victim, Rockwell O'Hallohan, aged 67, had a long rap sheet, mostly for liquor store robberies. He apparently retired after his partner Norman Fitzroy was gunned down by a Chinese shopkeeper. In point of fact, O'Hallohan had only been released from prison twenty-eight days earlier. The victim showed signs of being strangled by hands, but no prints were left; indications are that the killer was roughly the same height as the deceased. He was found in his mother's old apartment. The windows were barred by her request because the neighbourhood had gone downhill. There were no signs of entry: in fact, a security bar and the locks had been engaged from the inside.
At the site, a scrapbook was found with incriminating evidence regarding several cold files and a letter from Fitzroy dated two days before the shooting, expressing relief that O'Hallohan was willing to forgive him for sleeping with the latter's girl. This seems to be too much of a coincidence to ignore.
The case file on the Fitzroy shooting indicated that Shen Wu, the shooter, had yelled a curse before blasting the robber, but couldn't recall exactly what he had said. The file also contained stick figures with X's and pictures of the shotgun. A subsequent interview revealed the curse, "May Death be as loyal to you as your friends." In Chinese, this is a palindrome.
Shen Wu also read my tea leaves when I visited him. He said that my friend is a blessing and a curse, that new friends will be the death of me, but a good death, that I should be careful of the seer whose path is tainted, that the guardian is pure of heart, the jester trustworthy and another was a blank space. He advised me to get my affairs in order.
Finally, there is a similar case involving a victim named McGillicuddy who was killed in a similar way. (IIRC, she was the girlfriend who came between Rockwell and Norman.)
The victim, Rockwell O'Hallohan, aged 67, had a long rap sheet, mostly for liquor store robberies. He apparently retired after his partner Norman Fitzroy was gunned down by a Chinese shopkeeper. In point of fact, O'Hallohan had only been released from prison twenty-eight days earlier. The victim showed signs of being strangled by hands, but no prints were left; indications are that the killer was roughly the same height as the deceased. He was found in his mother's old apartment. The windows were barred by her request because the neighbourhood had gone downhill. There were no signs of entry: in fact, a security bar and the locks had been engaged from the inside.
At the site, a scrapbook was found with incriminating evidence regarding several cold files and a letter from Fitzroy dated two days before the shooting, expressing relief that O'Hallohan was willing to forgive him for sleeping with the latter's girl. This seems to be too much of a coincidence to ignore.
The case file on the Fitzroy shooting indicated that Shen Wu, the shooter, had yelled a curse before blasting the robber, but couldn't recall exactly what he had said. The file also contained stick figures with X's and pictures of the shotgun. A subsequent interview revealed the curse, "May Death be as loyal to you as your friends." In Chinese, this is a palindrome.
Shen Wu also read my tea leaves when I visited him. He said that my friend is a blessing and a curse, that new friends will be the death of me, but a good death, that I should be careful of the seer whose path is tainted, that the guardian is pure of heart, the jester trustworthy and another was a blank space. He advised me to get my affairs in order.
Finally, there is a similar case involving a victim named McGillicuddy who was killed in a similar way. (IIRC, she was the girlfriend who came between Rockwell and Norman.)