Jamie's Case

Everyone gasped when she spoke those words, he's dead. Amy started to cry, but she was the only one, besides Jamie. Everyone else was either eyeing Conan's stiff, cold, fallen body, or they were glaring at somebody else suspiciously.

"Ok," said Jake, "who did it?"

"Yeah, who did it," Amy yelled while wiping tears form her eyes.

"Why are you asking Jake," replied Paul while pointing a finger at Jake. "You're a suspect too!"

"Are you saying I did it?"

"Well, you could've. You had the chance."

"We all had the chance," jumped in Zach, "but we still don't have a clue as to who could've done it."

"That's right," Sally added. "It was dark, so we couldn't see who it was."

"Plus none of us has a motive," said Amy.

"You're wrong." Everyone turned to Jamie who was still next to her father. She got up and faced them, but didn't hold eye contact with anyone. "Everyone has a motive, except for me and Nathan."

"Oh really," said Jake. "What's my motive?" Jamie looked at him.

"You and my dad use to work together, but you decided to open your own agency and my dad got more clients than you. You could've killed him so you can have his clients."

"So that settles that," replied Paul. "It was Jake." Jamie walked towards Paul.

"Not so fast Paul, you had a motive too."

"What do you know Jamie?"

"You helped my dad with many cases, but one time my dad accidentally let a crook get away and it cost you your job. You could've killed him to have revenge."

"Yeah, that's right," added Zach.

"Don't even get me started with you two," Jamie told Zach and Sally. "My dad killed your son, so you two could've wanted revenge too."

"We're still not closer to solving this case," uttered Jake.

"What do you mean 'we'? My father was just murdered and you're a suspect. This is my case now, and I'm gonna solve it." Jamie left the room and everyone started yelling.

"It was Jake!"

"It was Zach and Sally!"

"No, it was Paul!"

They were too busy pointing fingers and arguing that they didn't notice Amy and Nathan slip away. They went to search for Jamie and found her in Conan's former bedroom. Jamie sat on his bed and held a picture frame in her hand. In the picture were a younger Jamie, a younger Conan, and Rachel. They were in the apartment and were smiling, but Jamie was crying as she looked at her dead parents. Nathan and Amy sat beside her.

"You need to pull yourself together and figure out who did it," said Nathan. Jamie still continued to gaze at the happy people in the picture. "I already called the police." Then Jamie turned to Amy.

"You and my dad were a couple at one point, right Amy?"

"Yes."

"Well, why did you two split up? Was it because of my dad? Did he cheat on you? Did he do anything to you that would make you want to kill him today?" Amy looked shocked.

"You think I killed him?"

"Do you have a motive?"

"No, I don't have a motive and I didn't kill him. When we were teenagers we dated, but then my family had moved. Years later your mother and our friend George were killed by our former friend Mitch and I came to see Conan. I loved Conan, but then he told me what happened after I moved. He started to love Rachel since I was gone and your real father was dead."

"Jimmy Kudo."

"Yes, and then he wanted to be with me after Rachel died. I didn't know if his love for me was real or not, so I told him that I would do some soul-searching. I did, and realized that I would love him, but as a friend and nothing more. Conan never hurt me." There was a short pause and then she continued. "So really you had two dads; Jimmy Kudo and Conan Edogawa. Solve this case for them and if not for them then for yourself. Make them proud of you." Jamie smiled while tears ran down her cheek. She hugged Amy and then got up to work on her case.

Jamie went to the room where the murder happened and they were quiet. Jake saw her come in and went to her.

"We know who killed your father," he told her.

"Who?"

"Zach and Sally."

"How do you know?"

"Remember when Zach left the room to 'look around the apartment'? Well, he left to look around for the fuse box and when he found it he turned off the lights so Sally could take out a knife and stab Conan."

"We already told you," yelled Zach form across the room, "that I wanted to look at the apartment because Sally and I are thinking of moving into a nicer apartment like this one."

"A likely story," said Paul, "but you're the only who could've turned out the lights!"

"Even if I did you had the opportunity to kill him too!"

"So you admit that you did it?"

"No!"

"Believe us Jamie," continued Jake, "it was Zach and Sally."

"Do you have evidence?"

"Uh… No, but come on! Your dad killed their son. They wanted revenge."

"I won't believe anything until I see evidence."

Jamie walked away and went to the body. She looked at the knife and found frosting on the bloody wound. 'Frosting,' she thought. 'That's odd.' She then went to the table and saw the dirty dishes and the half eaten cake. 'There's a knife next to every plate and next to the cake, so which knife is in my dad?' She sat in the chair that she was in before the lights went out. 'My dad was sitting at the end, closest to the hallway. Jake, Amy, and I were sitting closer to him than Sally, Zach, and Paul. It could've been Jake, but if it was him which knife did he use?'

Jamie then went to each of them and asked questions, but the answers were not leading her anywhere. Soon the police had arrived, along with an old Inspector Meguire. He saw that Conan was the victim and became speechless.

"We don't know who did it," Jamie told him, "but they are saying that it was Zach and Sally."

"Because it is Zach and Sally," said Jake. "Come on inspector, you have to believe me, I'm one of the best detectives in town!" Jake started talking to the inspector while other police men were taking pictures and surveying the horrid crime scene. While that was going on Jamie went to the bathroom.

While in there she thought about what had just happened. 'I guess it really is Zach and Sally.' But then she washed her hands and everything changed. 'Why is that here? And if what Zach told me is true…' She went to her room and looked at the fuse box. 'It's here too. Why didn't I notice it before? They have the wrong persons!'

Jamie ran to the crime scene and saw the police putting handcuffs on Zach and Sally. Sally was sobbing and Zach was trying to fight them. He punched a cop and tried to run out the door, but was caught by two others.

"Just stop Zach," said Sally.

"It wasn't us," he screamed. "It wasn't us, I swear!"

"Wait a minute," yelled Jamie. "It wasn't them!" Everyone ceased what they were doing to look at her, and they all seemed confused.

"What do you mean it's not them," asked Paul. "Who is it then?"

"It's hard for me to make this accusation because I can't believe it myself, but I'm sure it's the truth."

"Who is it," they all yelled.

"It's… It's Nathan!"……