The Case of The Yellow Wallpaper

          Starting with this case, the only true evidence we had was the secret diary our victim, Jane, wrote and the two witnesses who lived with the victim, John and Jennie. The diary started off with many things explaining how she had nervous depression, and it states that John, her husband, was her Physician. We read the diary through for the first time not expecting to find much in it other than an idea of how her home life may have something to do with the case. However, her later writings included that John kept her in her room for long periods through out the day, without leaving the room even after she was telling the other witness, Jennie, and even john that she was seeing stuff in the yellow wallpaper. Thus, we began to look at John as a suspect, including Jennie, who may or may not have been an accomplice.

          After speaking with John we found out that he believed the victim was not taking her medicine (prescribed by and made by him), and that he did not want to move her from that one room because "she was just being irrational." No matter how hard we looked, it didn't seem that we had anything on the two suspects, yet we knew something was going on that they, nor the diary, spoke of. We knew at this point to read over the crime lab's report on our victim's body. The report stated that her body was full of psilocybin, a chemical in Mushrooms that make people hallucinate. Now, we had to see what the drugs were that John had been making for the victim and possibly other patients of his.

          A closer look at these drugs proved to be what we had imagined. This drug was made by John, and Jane was his personal lab monkey. We checked closer into the scene of the crime. John's Lab had many locks on the door leading down, and had vials full of chemicals. Aside from that, ther were dead rats in cages all over, a dead body of someone whom he stole from a grave, and many amounts of bottles of this drug. We also noticed that John was attempting to make the drug air borne, but we weren't sure why. After checking his lab computer, we saw that he had been in touch with Russian military attempting to sell the product once it was in its final state. Now we knew the matter was much more serious than what anyone over the case could have possibly imagined. 

          At this point, I sent officers out to get John and Jennie in for questioning. John came in and fell apart. He cried and told us mid-sob, "I didn't mean for Jane to die... I just wanted to make the money for us to be able to run away... I'm just one of you, living the American Dream my way." We asked him how many other people were involved, but he said it was just his project with him working on it. Later we asked about Jennie. He stated, "Jennie had nothing to do with this... she just needed some extra money, so I hired her as my maid around the house. I promise, Officer Burgus, she's innocent." However, I know as a detective, you cannot just take someone's word. John was sentenced to life in prison and is now a registered terrorist to the United States.

          As we had thought, Jennie said she was clean, and that she had nothing to do with the crime. Jennie stated, "I had no clue about the contents of the lab downstairs, I was just the one who cleaned up the living quarters." Then, I asked to see her key ring. With a puzzled look, she passed them over the table. I asked her if we could take this to test out a theory of mine, and she agreed. Myself and one of the other officers on the case took the keys to the crime scene. We went to the mysterious lab door, and we began to try each key on the door. The third try was the charm. She had a key to the Lab. 

          Once we returned, I questioned why she had a key to the lab, she stated that she had keys to all the doors in the house. "Why would John give you a key to the lab where he was trying to make a terrorist weapon?" I questioned. She sulked down in her seat, and noticed I wasn't just going to give up on the small details of the crime. After the results for the finger printing of the lab came back, the computer keyboard had a small drop of queso dip spilled on the space bar that included Jennie's finger print. Later, we find out that Jennie was a Communication major in college, and she had a minor in Russian. Jennie was the communication between the whole crime, and was sentenced to life in prison as a terrorist along with John.