Claude Lamothe

Claude Lamothe was the killer of Theo Mercier in Under the Thunderdome (Case #77, or Case #21 of Pacific Bay).

Role in Case(s)
Claude was a pharmacist in Jazz Town but was found guilty of grand homicide when evidence incriminated him to be the transgressor.

Claude was disgusted about Theo's constant thievery of his pharmacy and believing Theo's actions put lives in Jazz Town in jeopardy (given the regulations placed on prescription medicine) as Theo believed everyone should have access to quality medicine. The visit before Theo's death, Claude tried to reason with him, but to no avail, prompting Claude to commit the murder. Claude grabbed a weather vane that was broken during Hurricane Yves, followed Theo to the Jazz Town Thunderdome with a GPS, confronted the victim, and ended Theo's life using the weather vane as if it was a Roman gladius (short sword). Afterwards, Claude placed Theo's body in a military crate and fled the crime scene before Colonel Spangler arrived. Claude tried desperately to convince Amy Young and the player that the murder was warranted to avert unlawful use of controlled prescriptions, but Amy made clear that the law was the law and no one was allowed to take the law into their own hands.

The Honorable Dante told Claude in court that he could have no more free lollipops in the pharmacy, but going on-topic Judge Dante told Claude that murder does not fall into the best of the public good's interest but Claude told Judge Dante that he saved Jazz Town from an unlawful prescription distribution spree that would potentially become catastrophic. Judge Dante (mirroring what Amy told Claude) stated that vigilance with violence doesn't pay under any circumstances, and weighing both the brutality of the murder not to mention Claude's illicit vigilance were grounds for a 25-year jail sentence without parole for Claude.

Trivia

 * As Claude turned out to be the killer of Theo Mercier at the climax of the case and given his height billed at 6'3", he is the tallest killer in Pacific Bay, although Tom Norris of Grimsborough is taller by one inch.

Case Appearances

 * Open Wounds (Case #77, or Case #21 of Pacific Bay)