Solve the Mystery (writing prompt)
Prepared by: Ms. Sarah Elizabeth Allen
THE SCENARIO:
You are a team of undercover agents on training. You arrive at the station where you are immediately presented your first mystery case to solve.
THE CASE:
The case involves a murder of a 20-year-old girl, named Anna, who was shot point-blank along the sidewalk. The killer managed to hide himself and was never identified. Moreover, no physical evidences were found to help you at the right direction. There is only the testimony of one eye witness.
The eye-witness happens to be the mother of the victim’s boyfriend. Accordingly, she claims to have been walking with the victim that day because Anna claimed to meet-up a virtual friend. The mother basically claims to have no idea what the meet-up was for or who it was in particular. All she knows is that Anna has been in contact with the virtual friend for months and has never yet met the person. As reported, she says what happened, happened quickly. One time they were looking around and walking on the sidewalk nearing the meet-up place and the next thing she knew she simply looked backed to find Anna sprawled on the pavement shot on the head and not even a shadow of anyone around was present.
You try to look at Anna’s data and you read her file. As reflected she’s been quite the independent girl ever since. She did not grow up with her immediate parents but with a close relative. Moreover, you discover she’s been living apart her family (clan) for years now and hasn’t visited or met them for almost three years past. However, she time to time drops messages to her siblings.
THE CHALLENGE:
Your chief of police and program adviser announced that the department will be dismissing a lot of people and will willingly drop even OJT agents if their respective assigned cases are not solved. But to ensure that you will keep your jobs, you need to find the culprit and close the case or else you’ll be kicked out.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Write a response to this prompt. Be sure to include the prompt within your response and answer all the questions. Add 500-700 words to the prompt answering the who, what, when, why, and where. Present your arguments and evidences in an orderly and clear manner. You are free to invent any speculations and possible angles in your presentation. Be creative. GOOD LUCK! J
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OUR RESPONSE:
As we reviewed eyewitness’ statements, a mother of victim’s boyfriend were not enough, we undergo further investigations. When we interrogate the victim’s boyfriend, according to him, he also knew that the victim has a virtual friend been contacting for months but he trusts the victim for having that kind of friendship, he also told us their official date of relationship even though we did not ask. Next, we interrogate the victim’s relatives and according to them, the statements we got were the statements we read from her personal data but still there’s no luck for us to find any evidence. Last person we want to interrogate is the victim’s virtual friend but how can we find this person that even the victim had not yet met this someone?
In the night, as our investigation is still in process, we just remembered the statements said by the victim’s boyfriend, and wanting to meet this virtual friend is the victim’s online social media account might be the key. The next morning, our team meet the victim’s boyfriend and we ask the username of the victim to open her online social media account but we do not know the password yet but we remembered the date of official relationship stated by the guy and as we input the date as a password, like the most couples do, we successfully logged in the victim’s account to review the conversation with her virtual friend and to our surprise, we read the last message stating “Finally, you’re dead!” and our first suspected culprit is the victim’s virtual friend and we became more eager to meet this person. On the same day, we have tracked down the IP address of the message and luckily gives us an accurate residential address, the address given is where the victim resides when she was still alive. We just wondered why is this culprit sending a message in the same address? Could this culprit lives in the same address? Or could this culprit is intellectual enough to remain unidentified? We think of the possibilities that the statements we got from interrogations have loopholes or there are things kept untold.
As the case goes so long, my team decided to gather the people known by the victim and as we discuss the case, we allowed these people to read the conversation of victim’s account, then we noticed someone gets nervous and has great sweat on the face. When we replied the message using the victim’s account, the smart phone of the mother of the victim’s boyfriend rings which was instead intended to be sent to the virtual friend as a culprit, then to our conclusion, the mother and the virtual friend were the same person and at the same time the real culprit.
The killer explains to us that she disliked Anna for her son because she was never a good influence, that is why she pretended to be the virtual friend as the victim easily trusts even to strangers and in the meet-up place that was happened to be oddly quiet, she intended to have a few distance from Anna and simply looked backed to shot the head of the victim until sprawled on the pavement and immediately casted the physical evidence, like guns, beyond the meet-up place, like rivers. The son defended his girlfriend that his mother misjudged the victim but was influenced and changed him a lot in many countless ways. The mother regrets for what she has done and voluntarily to be ended up in jail.
