A Rock and a Hard Place

A Rock and a Hard Place is a case featured in Criminal Case as the thirty-third case of The Conspiracy (Season 5) and the two-hundred sixty-fourth case overall. It takes place in the Misty Grove district of Grimsborough.

Plot
Jones and the player headed to infiltrate the meteorite lab after nightfall on Chief Parker's orders. However, they found the beheaded body of dome chief of security Barb Bellamy inside the lab.

As Rozetta Pierre had caught the duo with the body, Judge Powell made sure that the player and Gloria Hayes would have twelve hours to investigate Barb's death.

Victim

 * Barb Bellamy (found beheaded in the meteorite lab)

Murder Weapon

 * Rock Saw

Killer

 * Cyril Shelwater

Killer's Profile

 * The killer uses baking soda.
 * The killer drinks orange juice.

Crime Scenes
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Trivia

 * The case title refers to the idiom "between a rock and a hard place," which means to be faced with two equally undesirable alternatives.
 * This is one of the cases in which the player has to investigate the same crime scene twice during the main leg.