Colonel Spangler

Army Colonel Spangler was one of the suspects during the murder investigation of Army Lieutenant and Fort Lafayette mainstay, Nora Lewis in The Root of All Evil (Case #64, or Case #8 of Pacific Bay).

Profile
Colonel Spangler is a 56-year old Army Colonel (as his name suggests) who wears a standard Army officer suit with a white shirt and a black neck tie underneath his army coat. He has 4 silver stars on his shoulder and has standard Army decorations coming from his years of service. Spangler wears a standard Army officer's cap also with 4 silver stars. Spangler has brown hair (hidden in his cap), green eyes, and is known to have used lemongrass and has gardening skills.

Role in Case(s)
Colonel Spangler currently serves as the head of the United States Army's Fort Lafayette base stationed in Bayou Bleu.

The first time Spangler was called into investigation was when the team found a military schedule at the victim's locker of Fort Lafayette and gave it to Hannah Choi for analysis. Hannah managed to crack the military schedule and realized the victim was a participant in a project named Alternative Universal Defense Resources on Elected Youth, abbreviated as AUDREY--in which Hannah deduced it as being a cover-up done by the military to keep info out of public. Hannah managed to expose Colonel Spangler as the leader of the project, so the team went to Fort Lafayette to talk to him.

Spangler was upset when the police had to tell him about Lt. Lewis's death but Frank told Spangler it was a criminal investigation under civilian authority. Spangler told the team that the project was given to Lt. Lewis to find new grounds for military training, but never knew that she would not survive in the hostile swamps. He personally thinks that the military should investigate Lt. Lewis's death but Frank countered that the death occurred on civilian soil, grounds for the Pacific Bay Police Department to do the investigation.

The second time Spangler was interrogated was immediately after Chief Marquez commanded the team to head to Fort Lafayette to release Hannah and to have her exonerated of treason charges against her. All Chief Marquez knew before she went to Fort Lafayette to reason with Spangler was that Hannah was hacking to assist the team in the murder investigation albeit the military would not allow that--something the Chief wanted to talk some sense into the military official.

Upon arrival at Hannah's cell, Spangler declared what the team wanted was superceded by military authority. Chief Marquez didn't buy Spangler's claims and requests Hannah to be released and exonerated of high treason charges or she would permit the media to publish a story about Project AUDREY (a mission Lt. Lewis was working on) as the Chief is not afraid of doing so because she knows what's happening within the Pacific Bay Police Department's touch. Dumbfounded, Spangler gave the team clearance to wander around Ft. Lafayette to continue the investigation, but not without interrogating the Colonel once again.

Frank told Spangler that Project AUDREY wasn't about finding new training grounds, but to investigate old experiments conducted by Pacific Pharma and wondered as to why Spangler would do such a thing. All Spangler knew was that Lt. Lewis found some weird sprouts using the formula to grow a plant into a gigantic plant in Swamp Forest, so Spangler grew one sprout in his office, knowing that formula made the plant gigantic. Spangler sent Lt. Lewis to intercept Swamp Forest once again where she found the carnivorous plant (which killed her), and attempted to get the gigantic plant project open once again but Frank told Spangler to stand down since the higher-ups had a reason to scrap the project.

Although Spangler was innocent after Ray Westman was found guilty of grand homicide, Chief Marquez held a personal grudge against the military given what happened to Hannah during the investigation--him confiscating Hannah's laptop was enough to make Chief Marquez uneasy, so she requested the player to accompany her to talk some sense to Spangler following the indictment. Spangler felt it was a military right to retain Hannah's laptop but Chief Marquez made it clear that the laptop was Pacific Bay Police property, but being the persuasive chief Andrea is, Spangler agreed to have the player retrieve the laptop but at the expense of having the player hack the computer and give it back to Hannah following the Blue Screen of Death. Chief Marquez was displeased when Spangler tampered with the laptop prior to Hannah's retrieval.

Colonel Spangler's stunt on Hannah's laptop angered her as she found out the military placed electromagnetic pulses to compromise her laptop. Although Chief Marquez approved Hannah's earnest investigation in the abandoned lab, she can't cover Hannah's vendettas as she requires the player to accompany her but in exchange Hannah would behave. Hannah found a suitcase with a broken incubator pieced together, and found out that it was the device that caused Hannah's laptop to act up. Hannah would have one final word with Spangler about the incubator (which he claims it's military property) that made Hannah's laptop act up in which Spangler wanted to revive the cancelled experiments to be promoted to a better district of Pacific Bay but felt that it was too much of a hassle and opted to give up on the lost experiment anyway.

Case Appearances

 * The Root of All Evil (Case #64, or Case #8 of Pacific Bay)