Murder Mystery

Paige Duncan, Zoe Petty, Camille Obert, Bella Bergmark

Background on Crime
A bonfire was held on the san marin campus on april 3, in honor of Captain
Cornball. CC was recently released from prison and has changed his name. At
7:30 p.m. Captain Cornball and his acquaintances sat down for dinner. At 7:35 pm
the sky got dark, people screamed and Captain Cornball groaned loudly. 7:36 p.m.
the sun returned to show Captain Cornball face down in his bowl and a steak knife
in the back of his neck. 7:40 p.m. the police were called. 7:55 p.m. the police
arrived. 8:00 p.m. captain cornball is pronounced dead.

Evidence
. Fingerprint found on broken glass
. A note
. Three different types of pens (assuming one was used to write the note)
. Two types of blood found on murder weapon
. Strand of hair
. Karyotyping (detect chromosomal abnormalities)

Procedures for chromatography

Chromatography is a process by which you separate a mixture by passing it in
solution or suspension or as a vapor (as in gas chromatography) through a
medium in which the components move at different rates. We used
chromatography to determine which pen was used to write the note left at the
scene. For this process we put a small amount of isopropyl alcohol at the bottom
of a small beaker. The next step is to place a strip of chromatography paper with a
dot from each pen found at the crime scene inside the beaker just barely in the
alcohol, with the dot at the bottom. Allow the solvent to move up the paper for at
least 10 minutes. You then measure the distance the solvent traveled and the
distance the pen ink traveled.

Procedures for blood typing

For the blood typing portion we were determining the blood type of the people at
the scene due to blood samples found. In order to find a person's blood type you
put five drops of blood into a well and one drop of selected antiserum (anti-A or
anti-B) to the well and rock to mix. If it reacts to the serum, gets clumpy, then it is
that type.

Procedure for fingerprinting

-Obtain fingerprint
-look at the print under the light microscope at 4x and 10x power
-Identify recognizable features from fingerprint( whorl, loop, arch)
-Dust it with fluorescent powder and feather duster
-photograph the print through the amber shield on the microlight
-Lift the print off the slide with the lifter film, peel off the protective backing and place the
sticky side of the lifter film on print then lift it and fold down on the pre attached lifter card
-attach and label
-compare the print to prints taken from suspects at the crime scene

Information on people involved

Theresa Thymes
Thomas Sandstone(Captain Cornball) is Theresas Uncle
He ran away before Theresa was born
Theresa has no motive

Fred Fleckstone
Has Marfans disease
Norma Nanny is in love with Fred Fleckstone
She possibly killed his hated father to show her affection towards him
Type O and Type A blood were found at the crimescene, CC and FF are type O
so the blood was not FFs
This means he could have commited the crime without harming himself
Motive:
Freds potential motive could have been to avenge his aunt and cousin by killing
Captain Cornball (Thomas Sandstone, his dad, a mysterious man who
affected his life) who killed them and get back at him for the suffering and
embarrassment he caused Fred for all these years.

Sam Stubs
. Sam stubs is the one who wrote the note because his fingerprints match the
prints that was on the pen and the ink matched the ink that came from a pen he
owned
. His motive leads us to believe that him and Norma Nanny were working together
and he is the one who knocked over the glass in the darkness to create an alibi for
Normas cut
. We believe this because it was his fingerprint that was on the broken glass

Who is the killer?

. With all the evidence we have gathered and analyzed we decided that Norma
Nanny killed Captain Cornball
. Norma Nanny claimed to have cut her hand on glass at the crime scene but we
actually think that she scrambled in the darkness with the knife to kill Captain
Cornball and in the process she cut herself
. The second blood type found on the knife is the same blood type, type A, as
Norma Nanny
. We think this because Norma Nanny cut her hand, her finger print matches the
one found at the crime scene, and the DNA sequences match.
. Since she is a jealous women and is in love with Fred Fleckstone, her motive
was to kill CC (FFs hated father) to show him how much FF and his happiness
means to her