Freddie Alonzo

Freddie Alonzo (also known as "The Puppeteer") was one of the suspects during the murder investigations of Elmer Buttons in After the Storm (Case #74, or Case #18 of Pacific Bay), Scott Lee Allan in Of Rats and Men (Case #78, or Case #22 of Pacific Bay). In Hanging by a Thread (Case #80, or Case #24 of Pacific Bay), Freddie was incarcerated for the murder of Dinah Cooper and for being exposed as the notorious serial killer known as the Puppeteer.

Profile
Freddie is a 49-year-old man with short white hair and green eyes. He has a 5 o'clock shadow and several wrinkles within his face.

As of his first case appearance, Freddie dons a black blazer and a concert t-shirt with red, white, and blue colors underneath. He wears a treble clef on the left side of his blazer, and a fundraiser name tag around his neck. On his right hand, he sports a fundraising stamp and has several hairs on his right forearm. It is known in the very case that Freddie knows music, owns a storm survival kit, and is fond of beignets.

As of his second case appearance, Freddie appears to be the same but is shown to have sustained bruises as a result of being attacked by looters. Furthermore, in the very case, Freddie is discovered to consume whiskey, demonstrate dependence of sleeping pills, and is also discovered to have had military training in the past.

In his third appearance, Freddie wears blue face paint on his face and ditches the fundraiser name tag around his neck and replaces it with a carnival necklace. Also in the very case, it is noted that he is knowledgeable about mechanics and consumes candy apples.

After the Storm
Freddie, a fundraiser and the annual Jazz Town Carnival organizer, found himself in trouble when the team found a Play for Hope festival flyer at the Jazz Joint (pieced back together) in which Hannah Choi managed to track down Freddie as the organizer of the event but one thing bothered Amy Young: a big "cancelled" sign was stamped on the poster in which Freddie refused to run the concert without Elmer's attendance prompting Amy to ask Freddie the reason for the cancellation. Freddie wanted to use Elmer's reputation as Jazz Town's respected jazz saxophonist for the festival but Elmer refused to participate--prompting the festival to be cancelled due to lack of interest without Elmer's participation.

Hannah later informed Amy and the player that the Play for Hope concert was now sold out because Freddie would dedicate the concert to Elmer given Freddie's awareness of the musician's death, prompting Amy to question Freddie as to why he would dedicate the Play for Hope festival in Elmer's memory and suspecting Freddie killed Elmer as an excuse to change the scope of the festival from the hurricane victims to Elmer's memory. Freddie told Amy he doesn't kill people, in which he prefers manipulation to strike guilt on the unfortunate. Freddie knew music in his past, but prefers fundraising since it's simpler on his time.

Hours after the killer was incarcerated for grand homicide, Chief Marquez wanted the player and Yann Toussaint to talk to Freddie about the annual Jazz Town Carnival since Freddie hadn't sent a proposal to Chief Marquez yet. Yann made Freddie aware of the Chief's worries but Freddie claimed to have lost the carnival proposal forms, in which the player found a faded folder dusted to be the carnival proposal papers Freddie was looking for. Yann wanted Hannah to verify the papers' authenticity not to mention whether or not the papers were in order. After careful analysis, Hannah was happy to announce the papers were authentic and in order plus as an added bonus, she had Chief Marquez sign those papers during her analysis.

With the carnival proposal papers signed by Chief Marquez and handed to Freddie, the annual Jazz Town Carnival could now take place, in which due to Hurricane Yves Jazz Town needed this event more than ever.

Of Rats and Men
Freddie had to cooperate with Pacific Bay authorities during the murder investigation of escaped convict Scott Lee Allan after he was caught in the middle of a riot in which the police station was looted. Freddie wasn't happy when an impending storm permitted people to do whatever they want in the district, including but not limited to the looters coming from the penitentiary to cause the chaos.

Freddie had to discuss about himself being beaten up by Scott Lee Allan after Frank Knight and the player found a school photo in which Hannah identified the photo as Scott beating up Freddie years before this case. Frank told Freddie that Scott and Freddie grew up together in spite of Freddie's claims that he never knew the escaped convict but Freddie recognized the trauma Scott gave him during his school years. Freddie told the team he was schooled at Saint Benedict's orphanage but never liked the environment of the institution although he hated Scott's bullying more.

Freddie was found innocent after the victim's cellmate was found guilty of grand homicide but had to cooperate with Yann since his parents were murdered by the mysterious serial killer known as "The Puppeteer" when he was only 14 (circa 1979). Yann and Freddie discussed about the serial killer's modus operandi and given Freddie's loss to a serial killer, he had no choice but to honor his parents, Arturo and Carla Alonzo, for every carnival event he held in Jazz Town.

Hanging by a Thread
Freddie was flagged as a suspect for a third time moments after cabaret dancer Dinah Cooper was supposedly slain by the mysterious Puppeteer inside the Carnival's storage room, but in the case's shocking moments, Freddie was found guilty of grand homicide in addition to three other homicides in a three decade window with the alias of the Puppeteer.

Freddie told Russell Crane and the player that he had no time to waste putting up with the team's vile accusations during the Carnival preparations, but Russell made it clear that the Puppeteer was selfish and cold-blooded, believing themselves to be liberators of children when in reality they were destroying lives of orphaned children. Freddie told the team that he was alright without his parents alongside Louie Cooper (Dinah's son) but Russell informed Freddie that his parents were the first to die and exposed Freddie as the Puppeteer when he inquired about him killing his parents due to them being too restrictive on him. Russell continued by stating that the Puppeteer was an emotionally weak middle-aged man who still behaved like a child, in which Freddie admitted he murdered Dinah.

Freddie's parents wouldn't let him do anything he wanted, but Freddie believed kids were free people but had to live in the prison of their parents' care, so he started his killing spree through an act of matricide and patricide. Besides that, Freddie killed Yann's parents when Yann was 14 due to Yann's argument with his parents three decades before the events of this case. Freddie also killed the parents of a young girl named Audrey years back (mentioned during the events of Under the Thunderdome), alas unearthing himself as the Puppeteer. Freddie felt free after he killed his parents, and by killing other controlling parents, he wanted those children to feel the joy of being free as well, which flagged him as a loose cannon. Russell had had enough with the chit-chat, so the player handcuffed Freddie for trial.

Judge Dante hated Freddie's idea of setting 14-year old children free from parents but Freddie countered that parents live boring, restrictive lives and the only thrill parents have are controlling their children. Yann took a stand and told Freddie no human being who's the parent of their children deserves a fate worse than death but Freddie told Yann he had seen him verbally fight with his parents during the Carnival, making Yann unhappy after the verbal fight--which prompted Freddie to murder Yann's parents. Yann told Freddie that every teenager quarrels with their parents but that makes no excuse for murder, and felt Freddie's actions scarred him for the rest of his life. Freddie told Yann he freed him from his parents, but Judge Dante had had enough--he made it clear that Russell was right about Freddie being a destroyer, and for the murder of Dinah Cooper--among numerous other murders that took place in Jazz Town over the past three decades--with the alias of the Puppeteer, Freddie was sentenced to life in jail.

Trivia

 * Freddie is one of the only three serial killers to appear in the game, the other ones being Tess Goodwin and Erikah Mabayo.
 * Freddie is one of the many suspects who appeared in three cases.

Case Appearances

 * After the Storm (Case #74, or Case #18 of Pacific Bay)
 * Of Rats and Men (Case #78, or Case #22 of Pacific Bay)
 * Hanging by a Thread (Case #80, or Case #24 of Pacific Bay)