Theo Mercier

Theo Mercier was the victim of Under the Thunderdome (Case #77, or Case #21 of Pacific Bay).

Murder Details
During a collaboration between local and military authorities for the purpose of reinforcing security, Colonel Spangler saw a military crate opened without his permission, and Amy Young and the player intervened, only to find Theo stuffed inside, dead with a weather vane stuck in his throat, as if the killer used the weather vane as a Roman gladius (short sword). Amy and the player didn't hesitate to ship the body to Roxie Sparks for autopsy.

In spite of running out of energy having to assist her aunt evacuate Jazz Town's hurricane-battered zones, Roxie concluded the following for her autopsy: Theo died from a combination of blood loss and respiratory failure, in which the weather vane (found force-fed in the victim's mouth) was confirmed as the murder weapon due to the killer using it as a short sword in spite of Roxie spotting the rooster part of the weather vane missing. Roxie couldn't help but spot blurred fingerprints with chicory traces imprinted on the half that was jammed on the victim's throat, suggesting that the killer drank a coffee-like drink called chicory.

When Chief Marquez ordered Amy and the player to clear the Thunderdome (at the Army's request), the player found a pile of evacuation supplies and managed to find the upper half of the murder weapon, in which the player found a blood-stained bandana and skin cells stuck on the weather vane ornament respectively, both sent to Yann Toussaint for analysis. After careful physical analysis, Yann was able to determine that the skin cells stuck on the weather vane suggested that the killer was a male in spite of the difficulty Yann had to go through with the skin cells. In addition, Yann was able to determine that the killer had a mud stain since the bandana was not potent enough to protect the killer from sustaining mud stains on their clothes.

Case Appearances

 * Under the Thunderdome (Case #77, or Case #21 of Pacific Bay)