Coleen Truman

Coleen Truman was the victim of the seventh case case in Pacific Bay, Easy Prey (Case #63, or Case #7 of Pacific Bay).

Profile
Coleen was an Ocean Shore banker who represented the Bay Area Bank who sported reading glasses, a standard businesswoman suit with a slightly unbuttoned dress shirt, and had a Bay Area Bank name tag affixed to her business coat. Coleen also sported short blonde hair and green eyes and wore earrings on her ears.

Murder Details
Roxie Sparks made one simple message at the start of her autopsy result: Coleen's insides were torn apart by a hunting rifle's bullet. Since hunting rifles used large caliber, armor-piercing bullets, any human who were shot even from a distance had no chance of survival, although an alligator would withstand such punishment. Since Coleen was shot from a distance with a hunting rifle at her liver, Roxie made it clear that the killer was an accomplished hunting rifle expert.

Mid-way through the investigation, when Amy Young launched a second investigation in an abandoned cabin, the team realized that a rifle was positioned in the bedroom, and given that the hunting rifle was capable of firing high-caliber, armor-piercing shots with precision even from long range, the team was able to find the murder weapon without the need for analysis.

Killer and Motives
The killer was a construction worker named Steve Bundy.

Coleen was a greedy banker so it didn't surprise Bayou Bleu that Coleen offered to buy Alec Howard's Gator Land for $1.00 US to demolish it and build a shopping mall. When Steve tried to tell Coleen to retain Gator Land's glory, Coleen zapped Steve with her tazer gun to inform the Bayou that no one stands in her way, as she wanted to build a Kauf-Mart in Gator Land, which Steve claimed Bayou Bleu didn't care about shopping at all. Steve told Coleen to abandon the Gator Land restoration project, so moments after Steve recovered from the tazer shot, he took his hunting rifle and offed Coleen to death.

The Honorable Dante recognized Steve taking Gator Land seriously albeit Steve claimed with Coleen dead, Bayou Bleu will be free from a shopping mall for the meantime, but the Honorable Dante was not up to Steve's games as speaking for the Bayou as a murderer just to save Gator Land didn't warrant a kill but Steve countered that if banks (Bay Area Bank, for example) have their way, the Bayou would lose the freedom to live, but wondered if the Honorable Dante would approve of Coleen's greed. The Honorable Dante says that the law is the law and doesn't care about greed or pride, making his message simple: life in jail for Coleen's death.

According to Amy, Bay Area Bank would proceed to purchase Gator Land from Alec Howard in spite of Coleen's death.

Case Appearances

 * Easy Prey (Case #63, or Case #7 of Pacific Bay)