Jenny Galguera

Jenny Galguera was the victim of Once Upon a Crime (Case #88, or Case #32 of Pacific Bay).

Profile
Jenny was a teen soap sensation and a child star who played a significant amount of princess roles in her short acting career. According to Frank Knight, Jenny was the idol of his daughter. Jenny wore a yellow princess dress and a tiara on her head.

Murder Details
All Frank wanted to do was to see his daughter for the first time in years, and if he got an autograph from Jenny, his ex-wife would have to lift the restraining order once and for all. The player ordered a murder investigation after they found Jenny on the set of The Glass Princess lifeless with her face encrusted with glass debris. The player didn't hesitate to ship Jenny to Roxie Sparks for autopsy.

Roxie started her autopsy result with a joke in which Frank wasn't in the mood for given that the victim was the same age as his daughter. Roxie suggested that the killer shoved Jenny against the mirror hard enough for the mirror to shatter as a starter. After the mirror glass broke, the killer grabbed a broken shard and stabbed Jenny in the neck and her head with it. Frank found the shattered mirror glass in the movie set in which Roxie was able to confirm the shards as the murder weapon. Roxie couldn't help but notice residue of anti-aging cream on the broken mirror glass shard which suggested that the killer used anti-aging cream. Frank thought that the killer had to be addicted to their looks given what Roxie said about the residue.

Killer and Motives
The killer turned out to be the victim's mother, Miranda Galguera, who also played a significant amount of princess roles in her acting career.

Miranda was aghast when Frank and the player incriminated her as the killer as she claimed to have loved her daughter more than anything else. Moreso Miranda showed signs of emotional instability suggesting that she felt regret for the murder, but Frank continuously grilled her for juvenile homicide. Miranda eventually knelt before the player's investigative expertise so Frank permitted the player to ship Miranda to court.

All Judge Dante remembered was Jenny's annoying voice when he watched a couple of soap opera episodes with his granddaughter but with that aside, Judge Dante wanted an explanation as to why Miranda killed Jenny. Miranda wanted to help Jenny out during her rehearsal of a screen adaption of Gaston Dumas's The Glass Princess, but her emotional insecurities caused her to assume that she bothered Jenny more than she helped out, which prompted Jenny to inform her mother that she didn't need her throughout the play. Miranda and Jenny looked at the mirror and realized that Miranda was once a beautiful princess but due to her age, she could no longer be what Jenny was, so she slammed her daughter in anger and stabbed her to death with broken glass. Miranda wanted the court to know how much she sacrificed her life to raise Jenny, to which when she was pregnant with the victim, she had to put her career on hold, and due to a divorce not explained in the game, Miranda had to raise Jenny by herself. Miranda wasn't happy when Jenny cared about her own fame more than Miranda, which drove the mother to a thirst for blood. Judge Dante heard enough and informed Miranda that there was no excuse for blood to be shed, so he gave a 30-year jail sentence for Miranda.

Trivia

 * Jenny's death at the hands of her mother is one of the instances of domestic homicide in Pacific Bay.

Case Appearances

 * Once Upon a Crime (Case #88, or Case #32 of Pacific Bay)