Immediately after they had found Wax Stan with its head missing, Stan had called the police, which was Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland. They looked over the what was left of the wax figure, and had started to take down notes when Stan explained what had happened.

"I got up to use the john, right?" Stan explained, "And when I come back blammo! He's headless!"

Mabel looked at her work on the wax figure, "My expert handcrafting… besmirched." She had cried out, "BESMMMMIIIIRCHED!"

Mira had immediately went to comfort her sister; she pulled her in for a hug, "It's okay Mabel… The police will figure out, I'm sure of it."

"Who could do something like this?" Dipper asked the two officers.

"What's your opinion Sheriff Blubs?" Deputy Durland asked.

Blubs had replied, "Look, we'd love to help you folks, but let's face it… This case is unsolvable."

Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief. "WHAT!?" They all exclaimed.

"YOU TAKE THAT BACK SHERIFF BLUBS!" Stan yelled.

"You can't just say that!" Skyla said with a bit of anger.

"You can't be serious right?" Mira said to the two officers, "There has to be motive to this, really there has to!"

Dipper said to the two officers, "You know, I could help you guys out if you want."

"Yeah!" Mabel said to the officers, "He's really good at the whole detective thing!"

Gary added, "Can't argue there, I mean he did figure out who was eating all of the tin cans."

"All signs, point to the goat!" Dipper said.

Stan said to the officers, "Yeah, yeah, let the boy help! He's got a little brain up in his head."

"Ooooh!" Blubs said, "Would you look at what we got here! City boy thinks he's gonna solve a mystery with his fancy computer phone!"

Durland had shouted, "CIIITTTYYY BOOOYYY! CIIITTTYYY BOOOYYY!"

"You are adorable!" Blubs said.

"Adorable?" Dipper said to Blubs with the quizzical look. Blubs and Durland had just laughed at Dipper's expression. Blubs said to them, "Look P.J's, how about you leave the investigating to the grown-ups, okay?"

They soon heard someone say over the police radio came on.

"Attention all units. Steve is about to fit an entire cantaloupe in his mouth. Repeat, an entire cantaloupe!"

"It's a 23-16!" Durland said.

"Let's move!" Blubs said to his deputy. Thus they both ran out of the Shack as they laughed, leaving everyone else just dumbstruck by what they had just witnessed. Andrew had broke the silence, "I have respect for those two, but they're really bad at their job."

"Probably because they're brains are the size of peas." Skyla said.

"There's gotta be something we can do to help find out who did this." Mira said.

"But we're not exactly officers." Gary said.

Dipper said to the whole group, "You know what, that's it! Mabel, Mira and Gary, you guys and me are gonna find the jerk that did this and get back the head. Then we'll see who's adorable."

Dipper suddenly let out a sneeze, and everyone couldn't help but let out an aw. "Aw…" Mabel said, "You sneeze like a kitten."

Dipper glared over in Mabel's direction.


-The Next Morning-

The triplets and Gary immediately went to work on searching the crime scene once more. Gary took pictures, Mira complied sketches, Mabel looked around the living while Dipper took down notes.

"Wax Stan's head is missing and it's up to us to find it." Dipper said to them as he wrote down the list of suspects, "There were a lot of unhappy customers yesterday at the Shack during the re-opening of the Wax Museum. The murderer could've been anybody."

"Even us!" Mabel said.

Mira stopped for a moment, "Wait, us, really?"

"I don't think that would be possible." Gary said.

"Ah but you forgot." Dipper said taking out the journal, "In this town, anything is possible." Dipper flipped through the pages of the journal, "Ghosts, zombies, it could be months before we find our first clue."

Just as Dipper said this, Mabel had exclaimed as she leaned over the lounge chair, "Hey look a clue!"

They went over to where Mabel was, and they saw footprints in the ground of the carpet; In one of the feet, there appeared to be a hole.

"Footprints in the carpet!" Gary exclaimed.

"Why are there holes in them?" Mira asked with a raised eyebrow.

Dipper followed them, "Don't know, but the footprints are leading straight to…"

The footprints lead behind the lounge chair. There, he found the murder weapon; which was an ax. The children gasped and looked at one another. They had brought the ax to the shop of the Mystery Shack, to show Soos.

Soos was currently examining the weapon.

"I can confirm, this is indeed an ax." Soos said.

The children thought to themselves. "Who do we know in this town that uses an ax?" Gary said rubbing his chin.

"Hmmm…" Mira thought, "Who do we know in this town that would carry around an ax on a daily basis in general?"

Mabel's eyes soon widened in realization when she thought of someone, "Wait a minute! Guys! The lumberjack!" The three kids gasped at this. "The lumberjack of course!" Dipper said, "He was furious when he didn't get that free pizza!"

"Furious enough for murder!" Mabel said raising her fist in the air.

"Oh you must mean Manly Dan." Soos said.

"Yeah, we do mean him. Do you know where Manly Dan is Soos?" Mira asked.

Soos replied, "Yeah, he hangs out at this crazy intense biker joint downtown."

"Oh! I know where that is!" Gary said, "I can take us there!"

"Than that's where we're going." Mabel said with a smile.

Soos seemed to get excited by what the kids were doing, "This is awesome! Gary do you realize what this means?"

"Yes!" Gary said, "I'm working with… The Mystery Triplets!"

The triplets stood silently at that.

"Mystery Triplets?" Mira said.

"I like it!" Mabel said with a smile.

"Please don't call us that." Dipper said.

Thus the four children had proceeded out the door. They walked by Stan who was getting a coffin out from the trunk and Skyla was helping him out. Stan noticed the four kids, "Hey, give us a hand would ya? I'm doin' a memorial service for wax Stan. Something small but classy."

"Sorry Grunkle Stan." Dipper said, "But we have a big break in the case."

"BIG CASE!" Mabel yelled.

"Really?" Skyla said, "Where are you guys heading?"

"We're gonna head into town to interrogate the murderer." Mira replied.

"And I'll be leading them to him!" Gary said happily.

Skyla looked at Gary with unsure look, but saw the look in his eyes. She sighed and said, "Just, be sure to stay close to your cousins and do what they say." Skyla said to her son.

Gary nodded his head and said, "Don't worry mom! I will!"

Mabel said pulling out the ax and swinging it a bit, "In other news we also have an ax! REE, REE, REE!"

Stan said to the triplets, "This is the kind of thing that responsible parents wouldn't want you to do… Good thing I'm an uncle!" Stan stood on top of the coffin and shouted as he raised his fist in the air, "AVENGE ME KIDS! AAAAAVVVVVEEEEENNNNGGGGEEEE MMMMEEEEE!"


-Later in Town-

They had followed Gary downtown of Gravity Falls. It wasn't long until they found the place they were looking for. When they did find it, they saw that there was a bodyguard outside of the place.

They saw that the bodyguard had just turned down a miner. "I forgot this place has an age restriction." Gary said.

"Don't worry, we got it covered." Dipper said before turning to Mabel, "You got those fake IDs?"

"You bet I do!" Mabel said getting out four IDs. She handed three of them off to Dipper, Mira, and Gary. They all looked at their IDs.

"Are you sure that this will work?" Mira asked her sister.

"I am 100% sure." Mabel said with a smile.

"Well, here goes nothing." Dipper said, before leading the group towards the place.

"We're here to interrogate Manly Dan the lumberjack for the murder of Wax Stan." Mabel said to the body guard. The four children showed the muscle the IDs that Mabel made. Though the makeshift ID cards had stickers and google eyes on their eyes. The muscle eyed them, but-

"Can't argue with that." He said. Thus he let them go inside.

As soon as they stepped inside the place that was known as the Skull Fracture, they found a bunch of men fighting against one another. They walked in cautiously, at one point walking over a man that was on the floor.

"Is that man okay?" Mira asked

"He's resting." Mabel said with a smile.

Dipper turned to the group, "Okay guys, try to blend in."

"Right." Mira and Gary said in unison.

"You got it dipping sauce!" Mabel said.

Thus the four of them split up to find Manly Dan. Though it didn't take long for them to find him when they saw him at the arm wrestling machine.

"Manly Dan." Dipper said as he, along with Mira and Gary approached him, "Just the guy we wanted to see. Tell us, where were you last night?"

"Punching at the clock!" Manly Dan said.

"So you were at work?" Gary asked.

"No! I was punching at that clock!" Manly Dan replied, pointing at the clock outside across the street. They saw the time on the clock.

"10' o'clock." Mira said, "But… That was the time of the murder."

Dipper took out the ax from his backpack and showed it to Manly Dan, "I guess you've never seen this before?"

"Listen little girl!" Manly Dan said.

"Actually I'm-"

"-I wouldn't pick my teeth with that ax. It's left handed! I only use my right hand, the MANLY HAND!" He ripped off the arm and started to beat the machine. "Get'em! Get'em!" A person named Tyler started to chant.

"Left handed?" Gary said before his eyes widened in realization, "Guys! The killer is left handed! We can narrow down the list of suspects with that!"

"Let's go!" Dipper said before noticing they were missing somebody, "Wait, has anyone seen Mabel?"

They saw Mabel sitting by the bar, with a biker, telling his fortune.

"3… 4… 5… 6!" Mabel said flipping the folded paper, "You're wife is gonna be beautiful."

"Yes!" The Biker said as he pumped his arm.

"Mabel!" Dipper said, "Good news, we just a break in the case!"

Dipper took Mabel by the arm and they left the Skull Fracture. "But will she love me!?" The Biker called out before they left. The four children were now walking down the block; Dipper had crossed the name Manly Dan off of the list of suspects.

"The weapon used on wax Stan, is a left handed ax." Dipper explained to the group, "The person we thought responsible, Manly Dan is right handed, so the killer we're looking for is left handed. All we have to do is find a person in this town who is left handed and we've got him!"

"We're so on fire today!" Gary cheered.

"That guy had better watch out, because we're coming for him!" Mabel said, "Pa-Zow!"

"Let's go find that murderer!" Mira said. Thus they all fist bumped in each other and went to search for the killer. They searched high and low for the killer of wax Stan, but so far half of the town was indeed right handed. They searched all day for the culprit, though it all seemed hopeless. They had searched through every suspect on the list that Dipper had made, but they still had no such luck. It seemed like they lost all hope of finding the culprit. That is until one name was left on the suspects list.


-Later that Night-

Officers Durland and Blubs stood outside of the Gravity Falls Gossiper, along with the triplets and Gary. Both Blubs and Durland were ready to bust into the place.

"You kids better be right about this, or you'll never hear the end of it." Blubs said to them.

"The evidence is irrefutable." Dipper said.

"It is so irrefutable!" Mabel said, putting emphasis on the "so" part.

Durland said happily waving his police baton, "I gonna get to use my match stick!"

"You ready? You ready little fella?" Blubs said to his deputy. Both of them made "Woo" sounds while they poked each other with their police batons.

"Let's do this on 3." Gary said. Durland prepared himself to kick down the door.

Gary counted down, "1… 2… 3!"

Durland kicked down the door and both officers came rushing into the place. "YAAAAHHHHH!" Durland shouted.

"NOBODY MOVE! THIS IS A RAID!" Blubs yelled.

As it turned out, the owner of the Gravity Falls Gossiper was none other than, Toby Determined, who had fallen out of his seat at the sight of them suddenly entering. "What is this!?" He exclaimed, "Some kind of raid!?"

Durland smashed a lamp with his police baton and yelled out, "DERP!"

Mira said to Toby, "Toby Determined, your under arrest for the murder of the wax body of Grunkle Stan."

"You have the right to remain silent!" Dipper said to Toby.

"And remain impressed by our awesome detective work!" Mabel said. The triplets high fived each other, and soon, Gary joined in on the high five after the triplets high fived one another.

"Gobbling goose feathers!" Toby said, "I don't understand!"

"Than allow me to explain." Dipper said before he began to explain it to Toby, "You were hoping that Grunkle Stan's new attraction would be the story that saved your failing newspaper. But when the show was a flop, you decided to go out and make your own headline. But you were sloppy, and all the clues pointed to a shabby shoed reporter who was caught left handed."

"Dipper, no offense… But that pun was cheesey." Gary said.

"It was the only thing I could come up with!" Dipper whispered.

Mabel crumbled up a newspaper and said to Toby, "Toby Determined… You're yesterday's news."

Toby said to the kids, "Boy, you're little knees must be sore… From jumping to conclusions! I had nothing to do with the murder."

"What!?" Mabel, Mira and Gary exclaimed.

"I knew it!" Dipper said before saying, "Wait, what? Nothing? You say nothing?"

"Do you mind repeating that?" Mabel asked.

"Wait, if you had nothing to do with it, than where exactly were you last night during the break-in?" Mira asked.

Toby seemed to look nervous when Mira asked this. "Ehhh…"

In the next second they were watching some security footage. Toby had taken from out of his closet a cardboard version of Shandra Jimenez. "Finally we can be alone, cut out TV news reporter Shandra Jimenez!"

At this point everyone had their jaws wide open by what they saw him kissing the cardboard; everyone couldn't help but say "Eeeewwww". "I've seen a lot of weird things in my day… But this one takes the cake." Gary said.

"Time state confirms it." Blubs said, "Toby, you're off the hook. You freak of nature."

"Hooray!" Toby cheered.

"But this doesn't make any sense!" Mira said, "All of the evidence that we collected points to him!"

"Check the ax for fingerprints!" Dipper said to the cops. Blubs and Durland looked over the ax and dusted it for fingerprints.

"No prints at all." Blubs said to them, which surprised them.

"No prints?" Dipper said.

"But that's impossible." Gary said, "How can there be no prints?"

Durland laughed, "Hey, I got a headline for you: city kids waste everyone's time!" The cops started to laugh, while the triplets looked away embarrassed. Gary tried to comfort them but it was to no avail.

"Boy, I'd be pretty embarrassed if I was you two." Toby said, with the security footage still playing behind him.


-Later-

Everyone had sat in a funeral parlor which Stan had made himself for his wax figure. The wax figure lay in the coffin, with it's head still missing. He stood on stage looking to the audience.

"Kids, Skyla, Soos, lifeless wax figure, thank you all for coming." Stan said, "Some people might say it's wrong for a man to love a wax replica version of himself."

Soos jumped from his seat, "THEY'RE WRONG!"

"Easy Soos." Stan said, he turned to the wax version of himself, "Wax Stan. I hope you're picking pockets in wax heaven."

Stan stopped when he felt tears come to his eyes. "I'm sorry, I got glitter in my eyes!" He said as he ran off the stage. He ran out of the room in tears; Soos ran after him. Skyla's eyes were written with concern, though the kids were unsure as to why.

She stood up, "I'm gonna go and try to calm him down." She said to them, "I'll be right back." With that Skyla left the room, leaving only the four kids in the funeral parlor.

Dipper sighed and leaned back in his chair.

"Dipper, what's wrong?" Mira asked.

He had replied, "Those cops were right about me. There's no way I could solve this."

"Come on Dipper, don't give up." Mabel said.

"Yeah, we can still solve this." Gary said.

Dipper stood up and went over to the coffin, "But I considered everything: The clues, the motive, the weapon, everything." He leaned against the coffin.

Mira patted him on the shoulder, "Don't worry Dipper, we'll find out whoever did this."

Mira looked in the coffin, but noticed something peculiar; The kids noticed this. "What is it?" Gary asked.

Mira looked at the bottom of the wax figure and so that there was a hole under its foot. "How come Wax Stan has a hole in his shoe?"

Mabel replied, "All the wax guys have them. It's where the pole thingy attaches to their stand dealy."

It was only than when Dipper had realized something. "Wait a minute…" He said, "What has a hole on its shoe and no fingerprints? You guys! The murders are-"

"Standing right behind you."