The clear details stating that there was a mysterious murder of a young cheerleader named Janice is one particular element that makes it a detective story in the tradition of Rue Morgue. “The Cheerleader’s Fall” is similar to Rue Morgue detective story because Edgar Allan Poe of Rue Morgue immediately notifies the reader that there was also a “mysterious murder”. In “The Cheerleader’s Fall” the reader begins to believe that Mr. Jasper, the school janitor is responsible for Janice’s disappearance, because he was caught “hurrying out of the gym”; when he notices Jeff, the school newspaper writer. In Rue Morgue detective story, it is mentioned that strands of hair, pulled from the root was found, along with bloody foot prints. It is then, that the reader finds out that Madame L. and her daughter had been murdered. The reader begins to believe that a human of great strength committed this crime. However, there is a twist to both stories. The element that seemed most deviate from the tradition in “ The Cheerleader’s Fall” was the climax. Here the reader is told that a fellow cheerleader was responsible for Janice’s fall in the shower, not the school janitor, Mr. Jasper. Unlike “Rue Morgue, the reader depends on the opinion of several people, who claimed that they heard the screams. After pages of trying to piece together who the suspect was, the climax finally reveals that an Ourang-Outang escapes for a Frenchman. The huge animal sees, and open window, and ascended through with a lightning rod, killing the mother and daughter.