Blood in the Water

Blood in the Water is a case in Criminal Case that will be featured as the thirtieth case of The Conspiracy (Season 5) and the two-hundred sixty-first case overall. It is the final case to take place in the Maple Heights district of Grimsborough.

Plot
Jones and the player rushed to the animal control facility upon hearing of Mayor Martha Price's murder from Benjamin Fetcher. They then collected her body, half-eaten by the Demon Fish in the tanks.

Victim

 * Martha Price (found half-eaten by the demon fish)

Murder Weapon

 * Demon Fish

Killer

 * Ernest Emerson

Killer's Profile

 * The killer eats olives.
 * The killer uses sunscreen.

Chapter 1

 * Investigate Animal Control Tanks. (Clues: Mayor's Badge, Victim's Body; New Suspect: Benjamin Fetcher; Victim identified: Martha Price)
 * Examine Mayor's Badge. (Result: White Substance)
 * Analyze White Substance. (03:00:00; Attribute: The killer uses sunscreen)
 * Talk to Benjamin Fetcher about the murder. (Prerequisite: Animal Control Tanks investigated; New Crime Scene Unlocked: Picnic Area)
 * Investigate Picnic Area. (Prerequisite: Benjamin interrogated; Clues: Straw Hat, Bouquet [Bouquet Tag])
 * Examine Straw Hat. (Result: Beige Powder)
 * Examine Beige Powder. (Result: Solid Perfume; New Suspect: Lola Vallez)
 * Ask Lola Vallez about her last encounter with the victim. (Prerequisite: Solid Perfume identified under microscope)
 * Examine Bouquet Tag. (New Suspect: Ray Parker)
 * Ask Ray Parker about his ties to the Mayor. (Prerequisite: Ray Parker decoded)
 * Autopsy Victim's Body. (18:00:00; Murder Weapon registered: Demon Fish; Attribute: The killer eats olives)
 * Go to Chapter 2. (No stars)

Trivia

 * The case title refers to the idiom "blood in the water," which refers to showing weakness in a competitive situation, leading your competitors to become aggressive towards you.
 * This case, Snake in the Grass and Buzz Kill are the only cases in The Conspiracy in which the murder weapon is an animal (in this case, the murder weapon is the demon fish).