Divorce+Disaster

by Emily and Annika

Divorce Disaster “    Husband and wife found dead in the basement right before divorce,” exclaimed the news reporter on the case in the    //Indianapolis Star//    . “Kids go outside for a while your father and I need to talk, alone,” said Becky, the mother of 6 children. Then Annika, Owen, Emily, Luke, Audrey, and Hannah all went out wondering what was going on with their parents. When all six of the kids had left and were completely outside, the parents began their way downstairs. The parents started fighting about all the problems they had because they were going through a divorce. They got so loud the neighbors could hear them fighting, then saw that the kids were outside sitting by themselves. All of   a sudden it went dead silent. One of the kids who had snuck into the house bolted out and screamed, “Help someone has killed my parents! I swear I saw someone come into my house I just know someone has murdered my parents!” Then, when the investigators got to the scene it was hard to tell what happened. “The neighbors and the kids both said they heard a lot of screaming and arguing of what sounded like to be the two parents of the crime scene.” The investigators began with asking the children questions about what they heard and how their parents were reacting to divorce   . Luke the oldest child who snuck in the house said,“I saw someone in all black go into the house and into the basement where the parents were fighting.” The investigators had some thoughts running through their heads thinking that Luke may have just seen his dad. Then again their dad couldn’t have run out of the house and back in because he was already fighting in the basement. Emily said, “I overheard her mom telling someone to stay away from her and to never to talk to her again.” This could be another clue to what really did happen in this crime. Annika   said to the investigator, My mom had been acting weird around them when the phone rang and when they talked about my dad.” The lawyer for their divorce said, “I have never seen them look at each other with sparkling eyes, not even when they were   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">just married.”    <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The neighbor next door to the Jonas family told us, “I have never seen them go a day without arguing that’s why this situation doesn’t surprise me at all.” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Another neighbor said “The oldest son would always try and argue with the parents about how they treat him and how they treat everyone else. Also, he would snoop into their conversations and see what they were talking about so he could use it against the parents.” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The manager of the apartment said, “They never paid their bills for the apartment, never bought enough food for their kids, and lastly their apartment was never quiet. I had to always pay the bills, along with the other people living in my apartments so I could get the money needed to pay for the taxes. The kids would steal food from the lobby set out for visitors, or I would have to pay for food for that unhappy family. At least once a week I would get complaints from the neighbors, also I would get 3-5 people moving out every other month due to the parents fighting.” When the investigator had gotten enough information for the crime to figure out a few details on how the crime may have started he left and went to his house where it would be quiet enough to work on this crime. When he decided he didn’t have enough to figure out because there were so many possibilities how it could have started he went to where the crime most likely started, the basement. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">When he had entered the room he was quite surprised at what was laid before him. It was something he had never ever expected. The investigator Bob was in so much shock he nearly screamed, but he stopped himself from screaming and nearly leaving the room. As soon as he got himself into “I am an investigator not a baby mode,” he started to take pictures of what he saw. He took the pictures so that he could look at them when he wasn’t in the room or at the apartment. He took pictures of the women with the gaping cut below her chin in neck. Of a man with a large bullet in his temple. He saw two particular small items in the corner of the room away from the two people lying on the ground, right by a dented wall where they lay motionless on the ground. As he looked around the basement he saw a gun, knife, wedding rings, blood across all of the carpet, floor and the man’s hands. One of the windows in the basement was open making Bob think that the person who the child saw forgot to shut it on their way out. He went over to the window to examine it and then it shut right before his very eyes. Once he got the nerve to go near it again he saw there were finger prints. He swabbed the finger prints and then took them to the FBI’s lab for tests to find out whose they were. Along with the finger prints on the window he also got finger prints from the mom, dad, Annika, Hannah, Emily, Owen, Audrey, and Luke. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Then looked at how the room was placed. He noticed that the woman’s face was extremely paler than the man’s. The investigator thought to himself that since the woman’s face was much paler then maybe the woman was killed minutes or hours before the man. He also noticed that the man had the gun in his hand and it made it look like maybe he had committed suicide and someone hadn’t murdered him. Another thought occurred to him that if someone hadn’t killed the man then who killed the woman? Could someone maybe have come in and killed the wife leaving the father to kill himself from watching the pain his wife was going through? The only thing is there was no trace of anyone   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">else in the basement besides the husband and wife. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Bob started putting more and more of the clues together and then he figured another thing out. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">He could ask the apartment owner for the surveillance videos for the apartment. This was done so that he could see if someone really did go in the apartment. Or did Luke, the oldest of the Jonas family just do something so someone wouldn’t get caught? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Once he got the surveillance videos he started watching it and then it went blank. Bob mumbled under his breath “What just happened?” Leaning under his desk w   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">here his black dell computer lay perfectly on his office desk he checked to see if anything had been turned off. When he was positive everything was fine he went back to watching the rest of the video. Putting the pieces of this murder was harder than he thought because someone or something is making sure he doesn’t. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">After he had finished the video he took notes over what he thought might have happened. He jotted down some questions he would ask the children. Once he got to where the children were staying, he knocked on the door and then found that the children   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">weren’t there. As he started to call to make sure he had gotten the right address, he saw everything. Who murdered the parents, who was even involved in the murder. The kids all popped out from their hiding spots, two were under the couch, one under a blanket in a closet, and the rest of them under the kitchen cabinets. “What on Earth are you doing hiding?” Bob asked in a confused and worried tone. When the children didn’t reply he started to worry. “You don’t need to be scared it’s just me remember? I asked you those questions about your parents? I don’t think I introduced myself though, I am Bob Clark.” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Oh, hello I think you know all of us so there is no need to introduce ourselves again. We were hiding because we were afraid the person who Luke saw was still on the l   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">oose and was coming after us to try and murder us as well because, well it seemed reasonable. Don’t you think? If someone was after my parents they would surely be after us too.” explained Emily and Annika. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“I don’t think anyone was after you parents. I think your parents had something to do with this. That’s why I am hear to ask you some questions on how they acted around each other. I need to know the absolute truth because then I can find out if someone really did murder your parents or if they murdered each other. I took some pictures of objects there were wedding rings across the room, a knife, and a gun right by your father. The window in the basement was also open, but even though Luke said he saw someone, I don’t think he did. I did some research and Luke has a problem seeing things,   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">called hallucination. In this case Luke might have just seen one of his parents running around trying to figure out what to do. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I am sorry but I have to say I think he one of your parents murdered the other and the one who did committed suicide.”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“That can’t be true! My mother wouldn’t do that and even though my dad has the tendency to be very violent I don’t think that is true. I am sorry but my parents would never hurt each other.” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Beep Beep. Bob’s phone just rang with the fingerprint results for the window. “Hold on I have to look at this. It’s the test results for the windows fingerprints, this will tell me who murdered who and who committed suicide.” Bob exclaimed running out of breath from excitement that he actually had solved one of the best murders he has had so far. “Here are the results. I am sorry to say but, What? What just happened? I almost had the results and then   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">my phone broke down I just don’t get it!”Bob screamed into the phone. “I got it I’ll pull it up on my laptop.” Once the laptop had loaded the fingerprints he looked at them closely and made sure he had the right results once he was sure who opened the window now all he had to so was see who’s fingerprints are on the knife and the gun and then he would know for sure who did what. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">As he got back to the crime scene he went over to the knife, there was still blood from Becky’s neck on it. The blood was a deep red color, and was drying but not as fast blood he had   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">seen for other crimes. Swipe. Click. Bob had just taken the sample of the fingerprints and the picture of the knife. Now he went to get the gun, it was a jet-black pistol. Swipe, he had just taken the sample of the fingerprints, he didn’t have to take a picture because there wasn’t anything to really see when he took it. “Here are samples for the Jonas murder Mr. Duke. I need them as soon as possible so I can get to the bottom of this. I have to finish this murder soon or those Jonas kids will go crazy hiding and never coming out even for someone they known until they know if anyone really did kill their parents. They even hid from me they told me they were hiding from the person Luke saw because they were probably going to kill them next.” As the results came back, Bob thanked Mr. Duke, then left to go and tell the children the results. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Children its investigator Bob here I have the results I haven’t looked at them yet I wanted to look at them with you. Come out Luke, Owen, Emily Annika, Hannah, and Audrey I know your here.” As the children popped out one by one investigator Bob got out his laptop and sat down on the carpet next to Annika and Emily. He pulled the results up and here they were. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Who killed my parents? ”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asked Luke. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Did they kill each other at the same time?”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asked Owen. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“How can this even be happening?”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asked Emily. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Who is going to be taking care of us?”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asked Hannah. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Will we have to take care of ourselves?”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asked Audrey. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Why did this happen to us now and not someone else?”   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">asked Annika. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“I am not sure you guys we will have to find out who killed who. As well as what will happen with you guys and who is taking care of you I will make sure someone nice takes care of you and that you all stay together.” Bob said frustrated. “   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Now lets look at the fingerprint results.” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">As he opened the investigation folder he saw that one of the fingerprints was related to the fathers right away. Bob needed to now try and look at the other fingerprints results and couldn’t recognize them right away so he took his camera out and looked at the gun, knife, and the window pictures he took. He then realized that the fathers fingerprints were all upon the window, knife, gun, and the moms neck. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">“Children I have some news for you. We have figured out the final information for the investigation.” He paused, there waiting to make sure he had the children to their best attention. “My investigation team and I have worked very hard to make sure we have the right information for you and now we are sure we do. We have conformed that you father has killed your mom, but we believe it was not his intention to do so. We are all very sorry for your loss and hope that things will go the best way they possibly could. Here is how we think the killing happened. Your father and mother were fighting, then they threw their wedding rings trying to hit each other, but missed and hit the wall. Then your father ran upstairs and got a knife trying to scare your mother off, but he got to intense and the knife flew out of his hands and hit your mother causing her neck to cut open. After your father was to upset and could not bare to tell you what had happened he opened the window trying to make it look like someone had gone in and killed them both. Finally he got a gun and committed suicide.” <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The next day the newspaper came out with the results for everyone in town to see. The article said “Mother and father by the   <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">last name of Jonas killed. The father and mother were fighting, then they threw their wedding rings trying to hit each other, but missed and hit the wall. Then the father ran upstairs and got a knife trying to scare the mother off, but he got to intense and the knife flew out of his hands and hit the mother causing her neck to cut open. After the father was to upset and could not bare to tell the six children what had happened he opened the window trying to make it look like someone had gone in and killed them both. Finally he got a gun and committed suicide. “Here are the list of people who helped us find out the crime, “the investigator Bob Clark who was the main person in all of the crime, the six children Annika, Hannah, Audrey, Luke, Owen, Emily, the FBI lab department, and finally Dr. Duke. If you are willing to take care of these children please contact  __ [|www.Jonas_care.com] __  <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">. Thank you for all of your concerns and help solving this crime.”