PROLOGUE: NEWS REELS
District Attorney RJ Brande issued a press release today that Lex Luthor of Lex Corp has been taken into custody and held for questioning in the death of Chloe Sullivan. Mr. Luthor had been under investigation for the last six weeks following the discovery of Daily Planet reporter Chloe Sullivan whose decomposed body was found washed up at a beach in New Troy Island on November 25th.
"We had been conducting our own investigation into the matter," Brande was quoted to have said, "However, the break in the case came when Lois Lane, cousin to the late Miss Sullivan, was able to provide us with documentary and digital evidence that can be taken to a Grand Jury."
Lois Lane's altruism did not prevent her, however, from securing her first Daily Planet headline, having arrived at an agreement with the DA's office to break the story first. Since the media frenzy following Luthor's arrest, Lane has retreated to the home of Senator Martha Kent, a long time friend.
The arrest is latest chapter in the saga the press have labeled Lex Gate. Chloe Sullivan had been investigating claims of unorthodox experiments in Lex Corps weapons division at the time of her disappearance on November 17th.
Miss Sullivan had risen in prominence following her award winning story outlining the plight of the 'Meteor Generation'. Coining the term to describe the high number of mutated individuals that have been appearing since the Smallville Meteor Shower of eighteen years ago, Miss Sullivan had championed the rights of these people in the press and by raising consciousness of their daily difficulties.
Along with Senator Martha Kent, Industrialist Oliver Queen and other respected members of the journalistic community, Miss Sullivan had fought to help the Meteor Generation overcome prejudice, harm and to some degree physical danger owing to their abilities.
Mr. Bruce Wayne, engaged to Miss Sullivan, could not be reached for comment.
