Nikolai Kamarov

Nikolai Kamarov (Rus: Николай Комаров; 1969-2014) was one of the suspects during the murder investigations of local Irish priest Angus O'Brian in Spineless (Case #70, or Case #14 of Pacific Bay) and his wife Odette Kamarov in Murder-Go-Round (Case #71, or Case #15 of Pacific Bay). In Under the Skin (Case #73, or Case #17 of Pacific Bay), he was partially skinned to death on a drum.

Profile
Nikolai was a 45-year old man who represented the Russian community as its leader. Besides that, he was the husband of the recently deceased Odette Kamarov and the father of Andrew Kamarov.

Nikolai had blue eyes and sported brown hair which used to be swept forward.

In Spineless, Nikolai donned a neat suit with a white shirt and a blue tie, and had a grease stain on the right side. He also wore a four-leaf clover pin on his right collar while the Kamarov family coat-of-arms on the left. He was also seen holding a cigar in his left hand.

In Murder-Go-Round, Nikolai ditched every one of the accessories he wore in the previous case as well as the cigar he held in his left hand.

Besides that, Nikolai used skipping ropes for exercise, was fond of Russian stew, used chalk, and used to get manicures.

Role in Case(s)
As the leader, Nikolai was a powerful figure in the Russian community.

Spineless
Nikolai found himself in trouble when Frank Knight and the player found the Kamarov family coat-of-arms in the fight club and thus the team wanted to know what business Nikolai had, in which Nikolai simply replied that he loved to see people fight. When Nikolai heard about the death of Angus, Nikolai respected the victim's fighting spirit, but other than that, he didn't like him. Nikolai claimed that the Irish can compare with Russians when it comes to drinking, but Nikolai felt the Russians were like a step above the Irish.

Nikolai was due for a second conversation after Hannah Choi confirmed the Russian writing on the bribery envelope--the bribe was for Angus (who was called The Sinner in the fighting tournament) to lose the fight and Hannah's fingerprint findings suggested Nikolai to have been the one originating the bribe. Angus allegedly won the tournament against Nikolai's will--flagging it as a murder reason.

Nikolai stated he was the type of person who believed he could win anything against all odds, but Frank replied that Angus took the money and won the tourney instead, which irritated Nikolai. Nikolai wanted Angus dead, but told the team he didn't commit the murder.

Frank and the player approached Nikolai following the killer's arrest when the player pieced a provocative trophy back together, which had a bear biting a dragon--a simulation of the Russo-Chinese feud. Nikolai thought such a provocative trophy would be fun to look at but Frank was not willing to put up with Nikolai's games any further, and for inciting violence with a trophy alone, he fined Nikolai.

Murder-Go-Round
Nikolai was brought into a murder investigation for a second time moments after his wife Odette was found weeping blood on a carousel. When Amy Young and the player notified Nikolai about Odette's death, Nikolai was enraged since he was the type of person who believed anything that belonged to him was only his for the taking. Nikolai took the time to describe Odette's odd beliefs of having things heavier than himself or their son Andrew, flagging a suggestion that Odette was not a good mother. Nikolai demanded the police to find Odette's killer at the cost of him taking matters to his own hands should they fail, in which Nikolai started showing signs of mental instability during the investigation.

Moments after Roxie Sparks determined Odette died of forced anti-coagulant overdose, Nikolai budged in the station complaining that his son was kidnapped, and added his son's rescue to his list of demands, but per Russell Crane, Odette's murder and Andrew's abduction were close enough to be connected, meaning that the killer was also involved in the abduction crime as well. Nikolai wanted to use bullets to handle his wife's death and his son's abduction, but Amy had to calm Nikolai down and convince him that violence wasn't the way to set things right, mirroring Hannah's preference to remain with the Pacific Bay Police Force over Inner Chaos one case earlier.

Nikolai decided to accuse Sue Xiong of Odette's murder and Andrew's abduction without cause per Chief Marquez in which Amy and the player had to intervene. Sue told the police Nikolai became mentally unstable but Amy preferred diplomacy over violence. Nikolai reluctantly agreed to let Sue go but told the team he would take matters in his own hands even without proof, grounds for Amy to label Nikolai as a serious suspect due to his mental instability.

Moments after he was locked up, Nikolai was approached by the team about a possible divorce from Odette but Nikolai stated his reason for a divorce proposal was due to Odette blaming the birth of Andrew for her sudden termination of her ballet career. In spite of his mental instability, Nikolai would never forgive himself should Andrew fall in the wrong hands.

Although Nikolai was found innocent after Tammy Baker was found guilty of grand homicide, abduction of a minor, and unlawful use of a regulated prescription (blood thinner a.k.a. anti-coagulant is only available by prescription), the reunion between Nikolai and Andrew was anything but a happy ending as Amy had to reason with Nikolai to come to his senses before his mental instability went out-of-hand hours after the case was closed.

Murder Details
Nikolai was found paraded skinless on Chinese territory, thus marking the end of his reign as the Russian community leader.

Upon autopsy, Roxie deduced Nikolai died when his skin was removed from his body, suffering a shock and bleeding to death. However, Roxie couldn't avoid noticing the killer cut the body using a proper technique to carefully remove the skin from the muscles and keep it intact. Judging by the way the skin was perforated and the cut was made, Roxie determined the killer was right-handed.

Killer and Motives
The killer was a businessman named Rupert Snow.

Rupert was the illegitimate son of Nikolai and Sue but was abandoned by the two community leaders when he was an infant because both were too weak to stand up to societal pressure from their respective communities, so to show his power, he hired Mark McKenzie to gather organs from various Inner City citizens for him. Frank couldn't believe Rupert's reasons for the murder, but Rupert was more than willing to reveal his sick plans before Judge Dante.

In court, Rupert had to rely on countless foster families wondering who his parents were since he was a toddler. Rupert had to make his fortune as a businessman before embarking on his sick quest to find Nikolai and Sue but felt betrayed when he discovered that he was the son of the leaders of two rival communities as the Russo-Chinese feud didn't fly out of Rupert's fingers. Money was the only motive the community leaders had for the Russo-Chinese feud and as such, believed he was the chosen one to end the Russo-Chinese feud and admitted he hired Mark to collect the heart of Ling (full of life and hope), the lungs of Radovan (to breathe the cleansed air of Inner City), and the spine of Angus (the backbone of society) to unite all races together in a bloodbath. Rupert decided thus he needed to skin Nikolai and Sue to death to remind Inner City the embodiment of peace between ethnicities, and although Rupert succeeded in skinning Nikolai to death, he blamed the player for his failure to skin Sue to death. This sickened Judge Dante like never before and the court decided a lifetime jail sentence for Nikolai's murder, his involvement of the organ-stealing scheme, and the attempted murder of Sue Xiong was appropriate for Rupert. Frank admitted that the case was somewhat too much for him as he believed the case was crazed to no end.

Trivia

 * Nikolai is one of the suspects of Pacific Bay who appeared in two cases consecutively, the others being Lenny Spitfire, Betty-Lou Logan, Yuan Wong and Aicha Ben Malek.

Case Appearances

 * Spineless (Case #70, or Case #14 of Pacific Bay)
 * Murder-Go-Round (Case #71, or Case #15 of Pacific Bay)
 * Under the Skin (Case #73, or Case #17 of Pacific Bay)