Murder by Proxy

Murder by Proxy is a case featured in Criminal Case as the one-hundred twenty-second case of the game. It is the seventh case of the game's World Edition (Season 3) and it is the first case to take place in the Sahara Region.

Plot
Ingrid Bjorn panicked when the Bureau first arrived in Morocco, worrying about who would take care of the team after Chief Ripley’s death in Europe. However, she calmed down when Jack Archer walked into the headquarters and explained that the US Embassy had been granted assistance for the investigation of the chief’s murder. Ingrid then told Jack and the player to meet Adam Hassan, the military attaché to Ambassador Jessica Stern, on the docks to assist the team in catching the chief’s killer.

Unfortunately for the team, Adam was found dead on the docks, killed by the same kind of dart that had killed Ripley. Realizing that the team now had two murders to solve, the player did not hesitate to send Adam’s body to Angela Douglas to kick off the investigation. Despite the ambassador’s warning to kick the team out of Morocco at the end of the day, the team gathered enough evidence to incriminate Christy Mathis as Adam’s killer.

At first, Christy had denied killing Adam, but then, she confessed to committing his murder when Jack told her she was a main suspect in Chief Ripley’s murder. However, Christy told the team that she had only killed Adam, not the chief. She explained that she had heard of the dart and tried to lead the team to believe that both murders were a connection to the same killer. When asked why she killed Adam, Christy replied that Adam not only cheated on her, but he had also gotten drunk and told her he would remind her why they were good when they dated. Christy refused to let her ex-boyfriend go through with that, and Adam left as if nothing had happened. Feeling sorry for the foreign student, Jack sent her to trial.

Christy pleaded guilty for the murder of Adam, saying he deserved it; she had explained that Adam would have continued to get away with his actions due to his diplomatic immunity. As a violation in that manner is vile and would be duly punished, but also due to the trauma the student had experienced, Judge Adaku sentenced Christy to ten years in prison.

With Adam’s murder solved, Ingrid told the team to focus on Ripley’s murder. The administrative assistant ordered Jack and the player to interrogate Christy in order to figure out how she got the idea for using the dart.

Christy explained that the dart and the pipe had just appeared inside her bag as she came home from a class one afternoon. She claimed that she had never put the darts in the bag and thought that someone else had dropped them in the bag while she was shopping at the souk. Christy further explained to Jack that there was a note inside the bag, saying “What kills a chief, kills an ex, and no one will be the wiser.” However, the student threw the note out. Jack and the player were prompted to investigate the souk again to find a ripped package of the poisoned darts, the same darts used to kill Adam and Ripley. After collecting fingerprints off of the package, Jack sent them to Elliot Clayton, who revealed that they belonged to a spice vendor named Rafid Habadi. Rafid had denied touching the package at first, but then confessed that a secret group called “The Sword” had paid him to drop a dart in Christy’s bag. Rafid then made a promise to Jack to not tell anyone he talked or his family would be killed.

As Trevor shared his findings with Ingrid, Marina found out that Jonah Karam was in contact with some rebel tribe leaders, the same leaders Adam was associated with, and she was determined to get the answers she was lacking from him. Jonah explained that he was investigating “The Sword” by infiltrating rebel camps to get information. He told the psychologist that his plan was working until “The Sword” figured out the Bureau was onto them and fled into the desert. The information prompted the player to follow Jonah’s lead and head to the desert for more clues.

Victim

 * Adam Hassan (found on the docks with a dart in his neck)

Murder Weapon

 * Poisoned Dart

Killer

 * Christy Mathis

Killer's Profile

 * The killer eats safron.
 * The killer knows ancient arabic.
 * The killer drinks mint tea.
 * The killer wears a blue scarf.
 * The killer is female.

Trivia

 * While one task in Crossing the Desert required a star to talk to Rafid Habadi, he was not accused of any wrongdoing during the murder investigation, and him showing up on the suspect list during Crossing the Desert should be considered incidental.
 * This case is one of the cases in which the killer has to be interrogated once again during the Additional Investigation.