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Evidence:
Newspaper Article: A clipping talking about Ms. Kuro Rose, a woman running for the position of senator in her district. It talks about how she served her country in the military's Special Forces team before being forced out because of a battle injury rendering her incapable of conducting anything overly stressful or strenuous. She promises to try and reduce the crime rate in her represented district if elected.
Knife: A fruit knife that was found underneath the door of Silver's office. Dried blood is seen covering the entirety of the blade with flecks also on the wooden handle. Only Sonic's fingerprints are known to be on it at this point since he touched it earlier without gloved hands.
Attorney's Badge: Sonic lost it during the promotion party earlier that evening. It was found under Silver's desk completely covered in blood on both the front and back despite there being no significant traces of blood around that area. It is believed to have been kicked under there during the scuffle after being bloodied.
Silver's Shoe: A shoe that is covered in blood. Oddly enough, there is a small round spot underneath the sole that is unmarred by the crimson liquid. It is unclear on what caused this unnatural occurrence or why this is so.
White Fragment: A small white piece found underneath Silver's desk. It is smooth with rough and jagged edges, almost as if it were broken off of some kind of clay figure. It is unclear as to where it originally came from.
Profiles:
Sonic Hedgehog: A seventeen year old blue furred male hedgehog. He and Tails were the first to discover Kuro Rose and Silver in his office, one dead and the other unconscious. He was considered to be the prime suspect by Espio, but has since been downgraded to person of interest with the help of his little brother.
Miles Prower: Best known by his nickname Tails. He's a twelve-year-old orange furred fox with two tails. He and Sonic were the first to discover Kuro Rose and Silver in his office. He helped his older brother escape grave suspicion under Espio's eyes.
Knuckles Echidna: He is an eighteen-year-old red furred echidna detective who works at the local precinct and is good friends with Sonic and Tails. He paid attention to the exchange between Tails and Espio regarding Sonic's innocence and sides with the two's side of events. He plans to take over the initial investigation.
Silver Hedgehog: An eighteen year old senior detective who worked hard for his current position. He was found in his office severely beaten up with bruises all over him. It is currently unclear as to who it was that caused his extensive injuries.
Kuro Rose: A woman of Japanese decent who speaks very fluent English. She was a running candidate for her district's senatorial race and a former Special Forces member in the army. She was found stabbed to death in Silver's office. It is unclear as to who it was that murdered her.
Espio: He's a purple chameleon with a white horn on his forehead. He's skilled in Japanese ninja arts and has his own dojo for teaching others said techniques. He was the first to appear on the scene after Sonic and Tails discovered it and considers himself to be an eyewitness to the whole ordeal.
Vector Crocodile: A twenty-year-old crocodile prosecutor. He loves the gold chain necklace that rests against his neck along with listening to music through his headset, including during his time in the courtroom. He can sometimes be a bit rash in making decisions and has a sort of stubborn side, but he always strives for the truth within the heart of any matter.
Charmy Bee: A hyper little bee who's attitude sometimes surpasses his eight-year-old body. He works alongside Prosecutor Vector as a sort of small rag-tag group of detectives that work apart from the local precinct detectives.
Dr. Ivo Robotnik: A fifty-three year old defense attorney of some renown. He owns his own law firm, albeit a small business version, and hired Sonic to be his understudy. He's usually too busy working on some kind of case to be seen in the office much. He allows Tails to hang out in the office regardless if he does any work in there or not. He's currently out of town on business and entrusted the upkeep of the office to Sonic and Tails.
Chapter 10: Dangerous Twists and Turns Pt. 4
After spending a little more than a minute waiting inside Silver's office that was now officially transformed into a crime scene, Knuckles came back with Vector following closely behind him and looking somewhat confused. As promised, the prosecutor was going to take on the guise of being the detective working outside of the local on the scene and investigating the area for evidence with Sonic and Tails helping him under "his request". However, his face seemed to reflect a bit of annoyance behind the confused front that was most likely a result of being pulled away from whatever it was he was doing on such short notice.
"Alright, let's hurry up and start looking busy before the cops get here," the crocodile announced as he put on a pair of regular ebon black gloves that looked like they were originally meant for driving purposes. "Everything should go pretty well so long as you two just pretend to be helping me out here and look like you're doing something productive. Officers are funny in that they don't like it when there are people like you two already messing around at a crime scene when they're not supposed to be."
"Where's Charmy and Espio?" Tails asked as the prosecutor now turned freelance detective threw him a pair of gloves that was almost the same color as Sonic's but was instead made out of latex. He had figured that the other two would be with him since they worked together as one unit. "Aren't they going to be helping us out here?"
"Charmy's busy crashing on the couch in my office and recovering from a sugar high he got during the party. Knowing him though, he should be up and about in about an hour or so. I have no idea where Espio is right now."
"He's right now taking a break in the cafeteria," Knuckles explained as he waited outside the doorway for the police to arrive. "Don't you remember me telling you that he was the one who accused Sonic of this crime when I came to get you?"
"Of course I do, but you were talking so fast and rushed that I barely had any time to let it sink into my head. However, let's just keep on looking busy here. I'll get your side of the story once we're in the clear here."
And barely a minute after they had started to officially investigate the crime scene, the sound of rushing footsteps were heard coming from the stairwell and into the hallway outside. A couple of seconds later, about three officers came in through the doorway right after the echidna had moved out of the way.
"Hello Detective Knuckles," one of the officers greeted the detective with a quick tip of his hat before he allowed his gaze to wander at the scene in front of him. The other two were also doing the same thing while also setting the things up that they had brought up with them. "Like you asked for, this is the bare minimum we can bring for the sake of investigating this crime scene. It's highly unorthodox to conduct an investigation in such a manner, but I can clearly see your reasoning behind it due to the circumstances.
"And who are these three in here?" the officer continued on as he pointed at the group still investigating the scene in front of him. "Why are they in here already scavenging the scene for evidence?"
"Ah, a pleasure to meet you officer," Vector said in greeting as he walked up to the officer and gave him a quick nod of his head. "The name's Vector. I'm originally a prosecutor by trade, but I have a little side business of my own that runs as a freelance detective agency of sorts. Knuckles here asked for my services being that he said you were going to take at least twenty minutes just to get here. He didn't want to take any chances and wanted to have the evidence preserved as quickly as possible. That and I happened to still be working in my office downstairs at the time."
"Hmm, that does sound like something he would do on the fly," he said as he let out a slow and small sigh that sounded a lot like a sense of thoughtfulness. "And who are the other two people loitering around behind you?"
"Oh, they were busy talking with me back at my office at the time the good detective asked for my help," the crocodile continued on without a hint of hesitation despite blatantly lying in front of a legal official before any of the others could get a chance to answer the question. "Being that they are a couple of good Samaritans, they decided to come here and help me with the investigation. Knuckles couldn't really help since he had to make sure this incident didn't leak throughout the entire precinct and cause a panic."
"I understand why you would want to allow the blue hedgehog to help, but why employ the aid of the fox? If I'm not mistaken, he's probably no older than twelve. He should be busy in bed sleeping for tomorrow's days' worth of education, not here in the middle of a murder investigation where he could be scarred for life."
"Tails doesn't go to school officer," the red furred detective quickly spoke up in a defensive manner. Both Sonic and Tails decided to listen in on the conversation since there were just too many distractions for their tastes to really be concentrating on the work at hand. "He has a brain that excels even the most advanced of high school students and potentially even that of college students taking the last step to their Master's Degree. As such, the district has seen fit to say he's not required to attend school like all the others because of his extraordinary gift. I've read his personal file before, so I can personally vouch for him in that he has every right to be here like the rest of us."
"Excelled mind or not, this isn't a place for a child like him to be hanging around," the officer continued on before one of the others came up and whispered something into his ear. He then said with a sigh as the other continued on to set up for their investigation and collection of evidence, "I suppose, however, that he's already seen all the horrors stored within this room. As much as it goes against my better judgment, the boy can stay along with the rest of you. Just make sure he doesn't end up wandering around and messing with everything in this room. The last thing any of us need tonight is to fill out a stupid report explaining why the scene was altered before we were finished with our investigation. Now if you all don't mind, I need to make sure that everything is being set up properly. In the meantime, you can all continue on with your investigation and search for evidence."
Without saying anything else, he walked over to where his other fellow officers were situated and began helping them set up. They had their gloves on and were taking cameras and other investigative items from a black duffel bag that one of them had brought along. It was clear that they had come well prepared.
"Ha, it's not as if he has any real authority on who gets to stay and leave here," Knuckles said in an undertone as he walked over to the others. "He doesn't have the right since I'm planning to take over the initial investigation here. I think it only fair that that be the case since I'm the first one here and have at least some knowledge about the crime."
"Can we just hurry up and get back to the investigation here?" Sonic asked as he started to sound just a bit restless. "Didn't you say that we should try and get as much done as possible before eight in the morning comes around? You said that's when she's supposed to be getting ready for some kind of special event."
"Sorry, I forgot about that," the detective apologized with a small shrug of his shoulders. "You and Tails keep on looking for more evidence; I'll check up on Ms. Kuro's body and see if I can establish an estimated time of death."
With those short but blunt instructions, everybody resumed with what it was they were doing before the police had arrived. Vector was carefully poking around where the body of Ms. Rose and Silver's unconscious form was in search for anything while Sonic and Tails searched the rest of the room that was not occupied by anybody. In other words, they were starting at the area behind the desk area being that it was the least disturbed and would probably not get in the officers' way.
"I'm guessing you already looked back here being that Espio said he caught you back here when he came in," the two tailed fox speculated as he carefully walked over the papers that were strewn all over the floor. He then continued on with a small sigh that held a small hint of annoyance behind it, "I never thought that somebody could be so persistent in that they're right while at the same time not having the full picture in front of them. Talk about being stubborn beyond belief. Anyway, did you manage to find anything that might be important for catching our attacker/murderer?"
"Yeah, I managed to find a couple of things," the blue hedgehog responded as he took the things he had found under the desk off from the top of it while trying to ignore his younger brother's quick attitude change from annoyance to curiosity. He had no idea when he had placed the items there, but he was happy that he had somehow remembered where they were amidst the chaos. "I found my Attorney's Badge down there, but it's completely covered in blood from both the front and back."
"And how did blood managed to get underneath the desk?" the young fox asked as he raised an eyebrow at the bloodied accessory before putting it into a sandwich bag. Sonic did not need to ask where he had received them from since he figured he probably got them from Vector at some point when he was not looking. "By the way Ms. Kuro's body is positioned, blood shouldn't have been able to travel all the way down there. She was stabbed on her front after all, not in her back."
"There isn't any down there," the attorney clarified as he recalled the conditions in where he first found it. "The only traces that you'll find there are small streak marks from when it was probably moved during the struggle."
"If that's the case, then Ms. Rose was stabbed either before or during the struggle with Silver. Since he doesn't have any kind of open wounds on him, it should be safe to say that the blood belongs to her."
"If that's true, then why is both sides of the badge bloodied? It was most likely on the floor when blood got onto it, so there shouldn't be any way that the entire second side of it would be like the front."
"…Sounds like something that we'll need to investigate into further when we have the time," Tails replied after a short pause as he shuffled the thought into the back of his head for later reference. "I just hope we can figure it out before our time's up. What else did you manage to find down there?"
"Well, there was this small White Fragment that I have no idea where it came from," Sonic said with a shrug of his shoulders as he showed the next thing he had found. "There's nothing in here that looks like it came from this except maybe the white walls, but it doesn't feel or even look like the same material."
"Doesn't look like it was touched by blood either," the two tailed fox said as he examined the piece before also putting it into a bag. "Well, until we have some idea as to where it came from, I don't think it'll do us any good to be thinking about it. What else did you manage to find in here Sonic?"
"Well, the last thing I found is underneath Silver's Shoe. There's this strange perfectly round mark underneath that's untouched by the blood all around it. I didn't have a chance to really check it out, so I'm not sure why it is."
"Hmm, I hope Vector doesn't mind too much if we go into his area of search for a little bit," he said before quickly making his way to where Silver's still unconscious form laid. Sonic soon followed closely behind. "Hey Vector, there's something around here that I want to check out. Do you mind if I stick around here for a bit?"
"So long as you don't get in my way," Vector responded without looking up from his examination of Silver's body. "The poor kid here must've put up a good fight or at least a struggle to have gotten these kinds of bruises. There's too much of them to indicate that he was simply knocked out after a couple."
"I'm guessing that's your unofficial version of Silver's Assault Report, huh?" Sonic asked in a tone that sounded more like a statement as Tails began to do whatever it was that he had in mind. "Nice to know that he wasn't planning on going down without a fight, even if it meant that he could've been killed in the process. Did you manage to figure out anything else about him that might help us?"
"Other than the fact that the only real damage on him are from some relatively heavy fist blows, nothing else is new here," the crocodile detective responded with a shrug of his shoulders as he bent down closer to the ground to get both a literal look and feel for the area. He placed his gold chain in his mouth so that it would not drag around the scene; it was also a bit of a habit he had to suck on it when he was trying to concentrate. "I'm no doctor, but I'd say he'd probably be out for another couple or so hours. Guess he should consider himself lucky that that seems to be the worst out of everything against him here. And Tails," he continued on when he caught a glimpse of the fox looking at Silver's Shoe, "I have no idea why that clean round spot is even there. Do you have any idea?"
"I think I have one," the two tailed fox answered with a thoughtful sigh as he began to examine the Attorney's Badge that was still resting inside its little bag. After a couple of seconds of contemplating whatever thought that was inside his head, he said, "I figured as much on that. This spot is the exact size and shape as this. That and there are also small ridge-like marks at the edges that are exactly the same as the front of the badge. This tells me this was caused when Silver stepped on it after Ms. Rose was stabbed. He must've not stepped in her blood yet when he trampled over it, hence the clean spot underneath his sole."
"Wow, I never noticed that before," the cobalt hedgehog admitted as he took a closer look at the shoe himself and saw that there were markings akin to that of the front of his Attorney's Badge. "I must've been too far to have really noticed them. But that still doesn't explain why the blood is on both sides."
"One thing at a time Sonic. The important thing here is that we managed to figure out what this strange circle was. I'm sure we'll figure out how it got both sides bloodied in no time. In the meantime, let's go see if Knuckles is done with his unofficial autopsy report. And thanks for getting us to stay here and help out Vector," the young fox added in an undertone so that only the two could hear.
"Not a problem little guy," the prosecutor stated with a smile as he continued to scan the area. "You guys earned my respect after showing me that even rookies could get the best of me and breeze through a case smelling like a bunch of fresh daisies. That and I kind of try and pay you back after trying to get you guilty for a crime you didn't even commit. I should've done my homework more before going into the fray."
"Oh, just forget about it Vector," the attorney stated with a wave of his hand in dismissal. "I can't believe that's still stuck in your mind. It's been almost a whole month when we first met and legally duke it out in court. You were just doing your job, so there's no need for you to be feeling sorry because of that."
"Hey Prosecutor Vector," one of the officers called out from their little corner that they made into their meeting spot. Apparently, it seemed as though they had finished setting up and were ready to take pictures of the crime scene and collect evidence. "Do you mind if we pulled you away for a little bit? There's something that we feel you'll be able to answer for us being that you were the first investigator on this scene."
"Alright, just hurry up and make it quick," he said in slight annoyance as he made his way to the three. At the same time, both Sonic and Tails were walking over to Knuckles who was still hanging around Ms. Kuro's body. "Don't go around taking forever talking to me. I want to finish this up as soon as I can."
"Did you manage to figure out anything for Ms. Kuro's Autopsy Report Knux?" Sonic asked as he knelt down next to the woman's body on the side away from the echidna so as to get a good look for himself.
"Of course I did," the other responded in mock offended tone. "I'm not as incompetent as some of the other detectives that work around here. I'm serious; some don't even try to make an effort on filling out their reports. And they actually have the guts to go about saying that they're better than me."
"And what did you figure out?" the cobalt hedgehog asked before the detective had a chance to further delve into personal pet peeves that he rather would not want to hear right now. "Me and Tails have already got the data about Silver's assault through Vector. According to him, he should be coming to in about a couple of hours. And that's considering if his amateur medical diagnosis is correct."
"Well, it's nice to hear some good news out of all this. In regards to Rose here," the detective continued on as he changed the subject back to Sonic's original question and motioned his head towards the fallen woman, "I don't think it's possible that she died immediately after being stabbed. There's just too much blood around her body for it to have come from just one single wound."
"So you're thinking that she was probably stabbed at least twice?" Tails asked as he looked at the body without crouching down.
"Oh, I know for a fact that she was stabbed only twice. Already thinking that it was an unusual amount of blood, I decided to check out her dress and noticed two distinct rip marks on it that are akin to something sharp piercing through the fabric. Thankfully, they were both not too marred by her flowing blood, so it was easy to tell that they were both entry points for the Knife. There's one on her upper abdomen, most likely the first stab, and a second situated on her chest dangerously close to her heart. She probably survived the first attack, and the killer went at her again for the finishing blow. There wouldn't be any viable reason for the killer go about desecrating her body if she already died on the first attack."
"He probably then pulled the weapon out of her now dead body and tried to use it against Silver," the cobalt hedgehog speculated as he turned the facts around in his head while making sure not to become confused. "That's the only thing that makes sense since the killer would have no other reason to have use of the blade for a third time. Being that he only had bruises from punches, he failed in regards to the weapon and caused it to end up underneath the door where I then found it upon coming back here."
"I also think it fair to say that she managed to put up a fight for her life since she's closer to the bookcase now void of books," the two tailed fox added as he noticed the close proximity between the two. "That and there's a Bloody Hand Print on the edges of one of the racks. She most likely used it to keep her balance after being stabbed the first time. She probably then moved forward a bit since just falling from right there wouldn't have caused her body to be right in front of the desk."
"The only thing that doesn't make sense then is why the blood isn't on top of the books," Knuckles said as he emphasized the part that the young fox failed to explain. "She was clearly stabbed before they fell since there isn't any to be seen on top of them. That and I highly doubt any kind of impact that might've been made on the shelf would've made nearly all the books fall to the ground."
"Are you trying to tell us that we should start moving the books away so we can figure out if there's any blood on the floor?" the attorney asked as he walked to the scattered books while still in a crouched position.
"You're the one who suggested it Sonic; I never said anything like that the whole time we were talking about this. That does sound like a rather good idea to act on though. Hey officer," the echidna called out as he turned towards where the cops were still doing their work, "do you think you can take a photo of this area so that we'll be able to freely search the scene without having to worry about moving things around?"
"What do you think I've been waiting around here for, 'til a giant meteor to come crashing down on the planet and mark the end of the world?" one of the officers with heavy sarcasm dripping from his tone as he leaned against the wall with a simple black camera in his hands. The other two were currently sprinkling some powder on certain items around the room and dusting them off for any kind of fingerprints. "Hurry up and get out of my way so I can finish up my end of things here."
Without saying much of anything, the three quickly moved out of the officer's way and towards the back of the desk area. With another angry grumble, the officer began taking shots of the area they were previously investigating and did not seem to be showing signs of stopping anytime soon. They all just simply shrug their shoulders at each other at the man's obvious aggravation that seemed to have sprouted for no reason.
For the next couple of seconds, they just stood around in the room doing nothing and looking like a bunch of lost people. Being that they were pushed away from the only place that they could investigate in the room, they had no idea what to do. Sonic even went ahead and motioned towards the door in signal that they should probably just leave for now. Before any of them could act on that suggestion though, they were interrupted by the arrival of a new voice suddenly cutting through the room's relative silence.
"Well, what do we have here?" the voice that sounded strikingly familiar asked with an intrigued click of his tongue, startling the three from their contemplative thoughts. The cops and prosecutor, on the other hand, just continued on with their conversation and work. "I never would've thought that I'd see such police activity like this going on here at the Precinct. I guess that crime just doesn't care about the backdrop it wants to take place in."
When they turned around towards the doorway where they had heard the voice come from, they noticed that it had belonged to none other than Shadow. Naturally, they were all surprised to have seen him there since they did not even hear a single sound coming from the hallway outside. It was almost as if he was already hiding out on the floor somewhere waiting for the right time to appear.
"Shadow!" Knuckles exclaimed, clearly not expecting the other to arrive anytime soon. Vector looked up from his spot momentarily at the sudden outburst before going back to his work as if there were not anything out of the ordinary. "I-I didn't think that you'd still be here. What are you doing up here?"
"I believe I work here Knuckles," the ebon furred hedgehog simply replied with a noticeable roll of his eyes at having to answer such a painfully obvious question. He then carefully walked into the room as if the floor were laced with tacks that could pierce through a shoe's sole. "Don't you remember that I'm one of the top prosecutors in this district? As such, my office is up on the last floor, the seventh floor."
"N-no, what I meant was why are you back here at the Precinct so late tonight?" the echidna clarified as he quickly recovered from his shock. Both Sonic and Tails simply looked on with nothing to add onto the conversation since they were also surprised to be seeing him here. "You never really stay around this late unless there's some kind of case that you're working on and managed to catch your full interest."
"I came back here to collect some of my important documents and personal possessions that I left in my office when I went to attend my meeting earlier this evening," the prosecutor explained as he walked into the office with a sort of an indifferent look on his face as if there was not anything strange going on. "I was climbing up those accused stairs when I heard some cluttering coming from this floor. Apparently, the last person to come up here failed to shut the stairway door behind them."
"Damn, I guess I should've remembered to lock that door after the police came," the detective murmured under his breath as he quickly left the room and out to the hallway to supposedly do what he had suggested.
"And why are you and Tails here Sonic?" Shadow continued on without any hesitation as he made it towards the desk while being careful not to mar the scene. "I never thought I'd see you two at a murder scene as fresh as this. If anything, I expected you both to be at your house and fast asleep already."
"How'd you know that this was a murder?" Sonic asked, slightly taken aback at how quickly the other had managed to get a handle of the situation. "We didn't even say anything to you about it yet."
"It's not too hard to figure out when you actually take the time to look around. Being that the bodies are still here, I suspect that the police only just arrived here. What a stink this will be when word gets out that a senatorial candidate was murdered in here," he said with a sigh leaving his lips.
"Which is why Knuckles asked the Police Department to only send one small group of cops to investigate the scene," Tails explained just as said detective came back into the room. "He wanted to buy as much time as possible to try and get some answers before the media storm rolls around and create too many unfounded rumors."
"Hmm, as much as I like how confident that Detective Knuckles is in that he can find some reasonable answers that would help substantiate his reasons for asking only a small amount of investigative officials to be at this murder scene, I'm afraid what he's doing is just barely within the legal limits of his power," the prosecutor stated as he crossed his arms and looked at the echidna who was now inside the office once more. "In other words, I'm afraid that I'll have to ask him to forfeit his investigation to another fellow detective and also his badge pending an official investigation on his conduct."
New Evidence:
Silver's Assault Report: The detective was beaten into unconsciousness due to heavy blows, although the marks on his fists show that he did fight back. Besides the bruises from said punches, there are no other wounds present on his body and the blood on his fur is most likely from Ms. Rose's wounds. He's expected to wake up in a couple of hours, but Vector, the detective who doesn't have much doctor skills, isn't completely sure.
Ms. Rose's Autopsy Report: She was murdered between midnight and one in the morning on 5/7. The cause of death was from two stab wounds, the first one suspected to be the abdomen and the second close to her heart. As such, she's suspected to have survived the first attack. Death was immediate on the second blow.
Bloody Hand Print: A print formed by blood that was found on one of the racks on the currently empty bookshelf. It's suspected to belong to Ms. Rose since she was the only two in the room to have lost blood. When compared to the distance from where it was found to where her body was, it's reasonable to believe that she was alive and moved around a bit before being killed.
Updated Evidence:
Silver's Shoe: The mark underneath the detective's shoe was made when it stepped the front of Sonic's Attorney's Badge. It shows that the badge was not fully drenched in blood sometime during the scuffle in the office.
Attorney's Badge: Sonic lost it during the party earlier that evening. It was found underneath Silver's desk and drenched in blood. However, Silver's Shoe proved that it was not bloodied on both sides at some point during the murder.
Knife: The weapon that was used in the murder of Ms. Rose. The evidence found at the scene suggests that it was used on the woman twice; It was also probably used on the fight against Silver since the blade was found underneath the door rather than on her body. Sonic's fingerprints are on the wooden handle due to a rookie mistake on his part when he first discovered the scene.
New Profiles:
Shadow Hedgehog: A seventeen-year-old hedgehog prosecutor who studied abroad to earn his Prosecutor's Badge. His office is located on the upper floors of the local Precinct. As such, he just happened upon the scene while making his way up to his office. He is currently accusing Knuckles of misconduct on his part and requesting he forfeit his control on the investigation and subject himself to an internal conduct investigation.