Dead Space

Dead Space is a case featured in Criminal Case, appearing as the ninety-ninth case of the game and the forty-third case of Pacific Bay. It takes place in Rhine Canyon, a district based in Pacific Bay.

Plot
Previously on Criminal Case, Chief Marquez thought that Colonel Spangler was not making any sense about the train crash and an escaped alien in which Amy Young thought Spangler lost his mind. Chief Marquez's solution is to investigate such nonsense by checking the Pacific Area Space Agency's launch pad to see whether or not Spangler is mentally insane. Amy and the player opted to do a security check at the Examiner-1 launch pad only to find an astronaut named Tom Nelson punctured to death with an abnormally huge hole on his chest, one day before he was to go to Mars via the Examiner-1. Amy and the player shipped Nelson's body to Roxie Sparks to launch the investigation.

To advance through the investigation, Spangler allowed Amy and the player access to the US Army's War Room accessible only by top officials, specifically General Freeman. This allowed the team to find the murder weapon, which was identified as a laser gun. Freeman opted to court-martial Spangler for allowing the Pacific Bay Police Department unauthorized access to the War Room but after Brad Raybury was incriminated to be the killer, Spangler was ultimately cleared due to the cooperation he demonstrated in helping the team nab another killer.

Brad thought the team had no proof that he killed Nelson but Amy told the candidate to drop the attitude by presenting the evidence incriminating him, proving that the player is a fast learner when it comes to science. Brad bowed down by admitting that he shot Nelson, but never knew that the murder weapon was fully functional. All Brad wanted to do was to play a prank on Nelson by pointing the Laser Gun at him, but in spite of Brad assuming that the laser gun was a toy, it killed Tom and Brad was aghast to know about the hole the laser gun caused. Amy made it clear that a homicide is a homicide, so she stepped aside to allow the player to ship Brad before the Honorable Dante.

Judge Dante wanted to know why Brad had to go through the trouble of killing Tom in which Brad didn't like Tom keeping all research files out of Brad's reach. Brad had to state that the murder was an accident in which if Tom told Brad not to play with the gun, then he would've went to Mars via space shuttle Examiner-1. Given that the murder was an accident, Judge Dante gave Brad an eight-year jail sentence with unannounced parole eligibility contingent on inmate behavior.

Hours after Brad was incarcerated, Spangler told the team to meet up with him at the desert festival in Rhine Canyon.

Victim

 * Tom Nelson (Found dead with a hole in his chest)

Murder Weapon

 * Laser Gun

Killer

 * Brad Raybury

Killer's Profile

 * The killer is right handed.
 * The killer eats space food.
 * The killer knows astrophysics.
 * The killer has a stain.
 * The killer has blue eyes.

Trivia

 * The Additional Investigation chapter is named differently in this case, as with all other cases of Rhine Canyon. In this case, the chapter is dubbed "Map to the Stars: Part 5".