Unsloved Murder

1. Choose a time period and Locale: Beginning of the 2008 year, 1504 Woodbine street, Apartment # 2.

2. Develop a detective: A 25 year old man named Joshua Jackson, who has just been promoted to a detective. A tall, skinny man who loves his job and has always dreamed of being a detective, to help and save people.

3. Outline the crime: a 26 year old woman, Jennifer Vasquez, with 5 kids, spends the entire afternoon arguing with her husband, Jeffery Scott. Around 10:00 p.m. the screams of Jennifer begin followed by several gunshots and then there is silence. one of the neighbors calls the cops and a few minutes later the whole block is filled with police, ambuleneces and detectives. EMT comes out with Jeffery's body, but Jennifer's is found dead. Jeffery is rushed to the hospital and is worked on for several hours. He is knocked out for two days. When he awakes he screams for his wife and children, but police tell him she is dead. He screams and tells Detective Jackson that the masked guy on the fire escape, that might have been a robber or stalker, killed her and shot him. Detective Jackson feels that there is something wrong with this story and chooses not to believe Jeffery.

4. Include some clues: Detective Jackson searches the whole apartment and finds no sign of forced entry anywhere to suspect that was a third person involved in this murder. Detective Jackson decides to search for clues that point to Jeffery being the murderer. Detective Jackson then decides that he should speak to some of the nieghbors, so he heads upstairs to speak to the people on the third floor. He finds himself speaking to David Cruz, a man whose lived in the building for thirteen years with his wife and two children. David explains to the detective that his daughter heard the couple arguing and then she heard Jennifer screaming as if she was in massive pain. He stated that he had walked into his daughters room and gunshots had broke through the floor missing David by 2 inches. The Detective then decides to speak to David's Daughter, Ashley. Ashley states that she had heard the couple arguing heavily since the afternoon and she heard Jennifer telling Jeffery that she wanted to leave him, and then she heard Jeffery say that if she left he would kill her. she stated that everything went calm and around 10:30 p.m. she heard Jennifer screaming like crazy and then gunshots followed the screams. Ashley also stated that when the police came that night they brought the children upstairs and the oldest daughter, of six years, said that daddy had killed her mommy. The detective then went back downstairs and analyzed the apartment some more. He found a bloddy fingerprinted knife, the gun also with fingerprints and a bloody boot footprint, but there was no boots found in the whole apartment, which could mean that maybe there was someone else in the house that night.

5. Identify the MMO:
MOTIVE:
according to Jennifer's aunt, she had an affair with another man, Jeffery was a very jealous man who would beat Jennifer if any man had looked her way or for any other reason. So Jeffery felt that he would kill her if she left him.
METHOD:
Jennifer fell in love with someone else and she was going to leave Jeffery that same night. She had went and told someone what she was about to do, That person contacted Jeffery and told him what Jennifer's plans were.
OPPORTUNITY:
Jeffery had the greatest opportunity on that day because he had heard what they told him, and figured he would leave the house and wait for Jennifer to have someone else in the house, this way he can catch Jennifer in the act.

6. Identify the alibis of the suspects:

Jeffery Scott- Heard a rumor that his wife was planning on leaving him for her lover.

7.Provide a climax: After fully investigating the situation Detective Jackson feels that Jeffery Scoot, The husband, is indeed the murderer of Jennifer Vasquez. After Jeffery's arrest he is taken to a mini trial. The Judge feels that there are not enough witnesses and not enough evidence to convict Jeffery for the Murder of his wife, also they still need to investigate whose bloody boot footprints were found in the house.