Nora Lewis

Army Lieutenant Nora Lewis was the victim of the eighth case case in Pacific Bay, The Root of All Evil (Case #64, or Case #8 of Pacific Bay).

Profile
As her name implies, Lt. Lewis was a military officer of the United States Army, stationed in Fort Lafayette inside Bayou Bleu. Sporting short dark blonde hair, Nora had blue eyes and wore a camoflage Army duty suit.

Murder Details
Lt. Lewis was found eaten to death by a huge carnivorous plant upon Frank Knight having to start his civic duty of cleaning the Swamp Forest of any littered trash. Roxie Sparks deduced that the carnivorous plant's stomach acid was the substance that killed Lt. Lewis, making the carnivorous plant which ate Lt. Lewis alive the murder weapon. Roxie also said that carnivorous plants were used to trap any bugs with stomach acid as glue, used to trap anyone. Although Lt. Lewis was trained to fight back, Roxie said that the victim was knocked unconscious and found traces of fertilizer on the victim's body, grounds for the carnivorous plant to score the kill. Since the fertilizer was custom-made, it was suggested that the killer knows gardening very well.

Killer and Motives
The killer was a former plant scientist named Ray Westman.

Ray believed that plants are people and was not too pleased when Army Lt. Lewis attempted to hurt his beloved carnivorous plant, Julian, including but not limited to destroying the gigantic plant. Ray would go far to keep Julian alive by taking care of the plant, even if he was ordered to leave the plant rotting in the Swamp Forests of Bayou Bleu, so he took care of the plant day by day using the fertilizer formula that was considered his life's work in spite of the formula being halted due to conflicts between the military and a company called Pacific Pharma. Frank caught Ray lying to the team during the investigation, but Ray didn't mean to kill Lt. Lewis, but unfortunately Lt. Lewis was going to make a military arrest for feeding the carnivorous plant, which Ray refused to halt when he realized Nora stared at Ray's plant as she was threatening him. Ray didn't want anyone to bother his life's work, so he took advantage of Nora's inattention by snatching her gun away from her, gun-butting her unconscious using the hand gun's hilt, and then poured fertilizer on Nora so the carnivorous plant could eat Nora, killing her with its digestive acid. While Ray thought this was a perfect opportunity to see his experiment shine, Frank didn't like this idea and brought Ray to trial.

Although the Honorable Dante admits to the court that he has an infatuation for plants, the court determined that Ray took things too far for having a carnivorous plant murder an innocent soldier, which was grounds for a 40 year jail sentence for Ray.

Case Appearances

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