One Soul Away

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“One Soul Away”

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One Soul Away

Victim	Weapon	Killer
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General information
Season	(Criminal Case: American Edition)
City	New York City
District	Chale Hills
Case #	1
Released	23rd November 2016
Partner(s)	Adison Paulson (All Chapters) Ryan Wright (A New Chapter) Sarah Bassett (1 task in A New Chapter)
Chronology
Preceded by	-
Succeeded by	N/A

One Soul Away is the first case of Criminal Case: American Edition (Season 1) and appears as the first case overall. It takes place in the Chale Hills district of New York City.

Plot

The player just arrived at the American Police Department where the Chief of Police, Andrea Goff, delightfully welcomed the player to her team. She introduced Detective Adison Paulson who was assigned to be the player's partners in America. Andrea decided to inform the player about a series of crimes plaguing America prior to the player's arrival. She also explained that these crimes were commited by the criminal organization FEAR, who's planning to control America under their power. Unexpectedly, the group discovers Sarah Harnes who told them that she and her boyfriend, Dylan Smith, had been shot. Andrea orders Adison and the player to head to the docks.

During the investigation, the two found Dylan's body shot with a gun. They also found evidence in the crime scene, which were a torn paper and the victim's tie. Later on, the player restored the torn paper, which revealed that scientist Franco Gutierrez wrote it against the victim. The two interrogate Franco who told them that Dylan was an ungrateful person.

Afterwards, the player examined the victim's tie and found fingerprints that belong to Louis Gervi, which was Dylan's bodyguard. He admitted that during the crime, Louis intended to save the victim by pulling him out of the car with his tie, but before he could do it, Dylan was shot in the forehead. Louis had nothing to do but escape the crime scene.

Adison and the player went back to headquarters after Chief Andrea reported the killer running off to the Botanical Gardens. The two headed there to find out more evidences, a phone and a pregnancy test. After the examination of the victim's phone, the two found out that the last call Dylan received was from Ryan West, and he called the victim a few minutes before the murder. When he was interrogated, Ryan called the victim because he discovered that Dylan was responsible for the deaths of his family. After the interrogation, the two decided to send the pregnancy test they collected to Colin Richards. He analyzed the urine on it which matches the ones with Sarah. From the test's display, Colin confirmed that Sarah was pregnant. When she was interrogated, she said that Dylan became furious after she discovered her pregnancy test. She told the duo that Dylan only cared about was the abandoned castle near the woods. The two decided to proceed to the castle and found a set of evidences.

In the castle, they found a bag with the initials "D.S." which stands for "Dylan Smith". Under it are letters spelled as FEAR. Adison speculated that Dylan could've been a member of FEAR, thus she reported this to Chief Andrea. Frederick Moran, the coroner of APD, confirmed that the gun was the murder weapon. He also told the two that he found traces of milk, eggs, cheese and flour in the gun. The victim's stomach didn't contain it, so he confirmed that the killer eats milk tart.

Later on, at the APD, a member of FEAR threatened the player to stop the investigation or else the player would die. Adison tried to arrest the person but before she could do it, the FEAR member escaped and headed towards the park. The duo came there but didn't found any trace of the person. Instead, they found a torn photo and funeral flowers. After investigating, the two headed back to the APD and restored the torn photo. They discovered an unknown woman who was Teresa Smith, the mother of the victim. The two informed her about Dylan's murder, which results to Teresa being unfortunate.

Summary

Victim

Dylan Smith (found shot on the docks)

Murder Weapon

Gun