David Jones

"...I'm here to remind you the law is above EVERYBODY!"

- David Jones

David Jeremiah Jones is an agent of the Grimsborough Police Department who happens to be the player's partner in all but one of the cases in the city of Grimsborough.

Appearance
As a senior police officer of 33 years of age, Jones sports dark brown spiky hair and light blue eyes. He has long ears and a wide nose. Jones mostly wears a standard Grimsborough PD uniform, which is a light blue, full-sleeves shirt with a blue-grey tie. Apart from that, the two sleeves of his shirt sport the logo of the Grimsborough Police Department. He also wears a pair of black pants with a black leather belt.

According to the developers, Jones is 5 feet, 10 inch tall and weighs 165 lbs.

Notable Events of Criminal Case
Jones was introduced to us in the very beginning of the game.

In Case #20, when the player asked how Jones knew the spoon was a caviar spoon, Jones answered that he used to work in a Posh restaurant before and washed dishes, and that was how he could recognize spoons very well.

In Case #22, Jones bought a deer clock from Desmond Galloway's Antique Shop, which costed him his whole salary: $1200. Then in Case #24, he bought a bear rug to go with his deer clock from Mortimer Mutlog, a taxidermist.

In Case #26, Jones revealed that ever since he was a kid, he always felt uncomfortable whenever he used to go to the local Grimsborough library. In the very case, it was discovered that Jones full name was David Jones (click  to see a photo). It was also discovered that the librarian, Constance Bell, knew Jones ever since he was a young boy and didn't like him for some reason (maybe because Jones never returned her library's books early). For example, when the team went to search her library for the first time, she ordered Jones not to touch any of her books.

In Case #29, after learning about the murder of the chief of the Grimsborough scouts, Connor Sullivan, Jones mentioned that he used to be a scout when he was a kid, and said that these kinds of things would never happen back in his days and that things were much simpler at that time.

In Case #31, Margaret Littlewood (an old lady who had participated in the annual Dog Pageant competition with her dog, Astrid) poisoned Jones so that she would not get caught and arrested for the murder of another participant, Molly Robinson. Margaret had poisoned Jones when the team went to give her back Astrid's ribbon. Just then, she gave Jones to eat one of her cupcakes which was mixed with poison. Jones happily ate it and as a result, he became extremely sick by the end of Chapter 2 and couldn't do further investigations. He was then replaced by Ramirez, an officer of the GPD.

After being arrested, Margaret handed the police the antidote to her poison which then recovered Jones. She also asked the police to give Jones her secret book of recipes, and her dog, Astrid, so that he could take care of it and enter the Dog Pageant competition with it. Jones then took part in the competition with Astrid and surprisingly won.

In Case #35, as Jones was talking to the player about Grace's fiancé as a criminal, Grace heard it and thus got mad at Jones, and furiously shouted out Jones with his full name, David Jeremiah Jones.

In Case #39, it was revealed that there was a funny page of Jones called "Oh My Jones" in Friendnet. It had more than 1,000 hearts (a parody of "likes") and there, members published funny pictures of Jones to have a laugh at him.

In Case #48, the citizens of Maple Heights filed complaints against Jones for being rude to them. Chief Samuel King also said that the case was too serious for him. As a result, Jones was replaced by Grace.

Jones stopped shaving between the events of Chapter 4 in the Additional Investigation of Case #51 until the Additional Investigation of Case #56, and as a result, grew a stubble and sustained eye bags due to lack of sleep, specifically due to Samuel King's suicide.

Personal Life
Jones is a senior police officer of the Grimsborough PD whose salary is $1200 per month.

Jones is divorced. After the killer was arrested in Death by Crucifixion (Case #7), he told the player that his ex-wife wanted him to see a psychologist because of the stress being a police officer caused. His ex-wife's name was Charlotte and they got divorced because she couldn't handle the risk his job entailed.

Jones hates chain smokers and sewers, as claimed by himself in Case #3 and Case #5, respectively. He also personally dislikes Bart Williams, Tony Marconi, Dimitri Balanchine and Alden Greene. Jones loves country music, burgers and cupcakes, and his great weakness are cookies. He is allergic to compost and he also hates the smell of hand sanitizer.

Jones once told his partner that he worked in a luxury restaurant when he was a student. It is known that Jones is interested in magic and that he wanted to be a magician when he was younger but couldn't become one. He was also interested in becoming a firefighter when he was a kid. It is known that he wanted a pink bedroom when he was a kid, as told by him after investigating Sarah Mills' bedroom in An Elementary Murder (Case #40).

Jones may have practiced S&amp;M in his past. In A Deadly Game (Case #20), Jezabela seemed to recall a time in which they spent together. For some reason, Jones was not eager to tell this story or explain why he knew Jezabela and her club.

Also in Case #20, Jones revealed that he used to work as a dishwasher at an upscale restaurant, which explains how he could distinguish the spoon that the player found as a clue as being a cavier spoon.

In Case #22, Jones kept calling cats "evil" after getting the results of the analyses that were related to animals. This may show that Jones is afraid of cats. But in Burying the Hatchet (Case #53), Jones showed no sign of fear of cats and even said that he liked cats, as in his lines after repairing an amulet.

Jones loved playing in greenhouses when he was a kid as told by him after finding a pile of flowers in The Final Journey (Case #23).

In The Scent of Death (Case #44), it is revealed that Jones used to read the "Girly Gossip" magazine from time to time. He blushed when he was trying to give an explanation to why he reads such magazines, In the very case, he also admitted that he uses a hair removal cream for women called "Fair Away".

In A Shot of Beauty (Case #45), it is discovered that Jones was a fan of wrestler Tom Norris when he was a kid and that he had even bought a pair of Tom's wrestling shorts.

In Drive, Swing, Die (Case #46), Jones mentioned that he often used to get lost in the forest when he was a kid, and thus, his mom had to make up stories to keep him away from going back there -- she made up a creature called "Ni!" which still scared Jones in his adult age.

In A Brave New World (Case #52), after finishing the examination of an astolabe, Jones mentioned that his grandfather was an astrologer.

In The Poisoned Truth (Case #54), Jones mentions that he used to collect baseball and wrestling cards when he was a kid.

Gameplay
Jones can be chosen by the player in any crime scene of Grimsborough. He's available as a 1-hint Level 10 partner (like Amy Young and Frank Knight in Pacific Bay) when all your teammates have been used up or when you just desire to choose him as your partner.

Trivia

 * Jones and Cathy King are the only characters in the game who appear in the Additional Investigation of a case in which they didn't appear as suspects.
 * Starting from A Brave New World (Case #52), Jones will be the one who will ask you for reports instead of Chief King when you finish a case, since King will commit suicide during the events of It All Ends Here (Case #51).
 * Also, after arresting the killer in Case #51, Jones will be the one who will give you the message after you level up, replacing Chief King.
 * Jones is shown digging in Chapter 1 of Case #52 and Chapter 3 of Case #56 respectively, making him one of the only eight characters to animate (or move) at one point in a cutscene.

Case Appearances
As one of the main characters and the player's partner in the Grimsborough PD, Jones appears in every single case of Grimsborough.