Death at the Circus

Death in the Circus is a case featured in Criminal Case, appearing as the one-hundred eighth case of the game and the fifty-second case of Pacific Bay. It is the second case to take place in Paradise City, a district based in Pacific Bay.

Plot
All Amy Young wanted was to attend to a circus with the player, in which the player reluctantly agreed on. Cotton candy was one of Amy's motives to check out the circus but the request was cut short when an acrobat named Annie Capri was strangled to death and suspended with a silk rope, which was later confirmed by Roxie Sparks to be the murder weapon as a part of her autopsy task. Amy and the player had to go through the trouble of looking through a rooftop, even a was museum until a male acrobat named Mikey Bolero was incriminated to be the killer.

Mikey has strong feelings of compassion and beliefs of Annie being the only soulmate he has in his life, but Amy informed the acrobat about his lies through the evidence the player collected during this investigation. Mikey countered that through use of tarot cards, he had his future planned with Annie, but after Amy snapped at him, he admitted to killing Annie because to head to Ivywood for a better career opportunity would mean to give up life in the circus. The circus is all Mikey had, and despite all the poems and threats he used to convince Annie to stay in the circus, Amy felt that the murder wasn't about love and compassion. Mikey felt that Annie was being disloyal due to her plea to move to Ivywood, so when he found Annie at the wax museum, he took her to the circus, strangled her with silk ropes, and suspended her on display to make other acrobats aware that once they are in the circus, they are bound in the circus forever. Amy had enough, so she stepped aside to allow the player to ship the disgraced acrobat to face trial.

Mikey told Judge Dante that he killed Annie in the name of love, in which it gave the Judge a feeling of distaste since all workplaces are to treat individuals with respect and dignity. Mikey felt that the player shouldn't have stuck their nose on this affair, but Judge Dante was fortunate for the player to be very persistent in their endeavor as he used his gavel to put the acrobat away for 30 years.

Eugenia Hestentrope wanted the player to subdue Coco the Magnificent and Freddy Gomez since she firmly believes that these two individuals are involved with a heist Louis De Rico is plotting. Judge Dante wanted the player to accommodate him since he had to do everything to audit the conditions in the circus given that conjoined twins The Hanoi Sisters have been enslaved by an oppressive ringmaster named Orsino Ziegfield, not to mention the honorable judge being forced to take matters in his own hands. While Judge Dante was successful in forcing Orsino to change his ways on how he treats his circus performers, the big heist plans have yet to be thwarted.

Victim

 * Annie Capri (strangled and suspended with a silk rope)

Murder Weapon

 * Silk Rope

Killer

 * Mikey Bolero

Killer's Profile

 * The killer eats shaved ice.
 * The killer uses chalk.
 * The killer reads tarot cards.
 * The killer wears red face paint.
 * The killer has a mustache.

Trivia

 * All Additional Investigation legs of Paradise City, this case included, are named differently to ensure continuity with the district's plot. Hence, The Big Heist: Part 2.
 * Due to a French Holiday, Pretty Simple Games released this case on a Wednesday instead of a Thursday.