User blog comment:MoiraV/Case 42/@comment-16473941-20130926112931/@comment-12176464-20130926133155

Because Jerry got Mitchell drunk one night and made him reveal that his family was broke, as well as recording him saying that. Mitchell didn't want his family name to be soiled as the people living in Maple Heights would have regarded him with disdain if they had known the truth, murder is a lesser crime to the residents of this district.