Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-46.189.242.243-20141127050152/@comment-11738-20141127052031

You lose one star. A typical case requires 36 stars but one wrong guess and you lose one star--meaning that it will take you 37 stars (possibly 40 stars max) to get to the next case, so it's UTMOST VITAL to get the killer guessed right THE FIRST TIME.