Elmer Buttons

Elmer "Boogie" Buttons was the victim of the eighteenth case in Pacific Bay, After the Storm (Case #74, or Case #18 of Pacific Bay).

Murder Details
Elmer was found by Amy Young and Yann Toussaint broken into pieces with his body parts arranged on the tram cables exactly like musical notes on a music sheet in Jazz Town's tramway system but in addition to the victim found broken into pieces, Amy and the player found a suitcase and a radio in the scene of the murder. Yann recognizes the song being written by the saxophonist since it was amongst one of the songs Yann knew when he was a juvenile, but Amy and the player didn't hesitate to submit Elmer's corpse to Roxie Sparks for autopsy even though Amy had a feeling it would be too much for Roxie to handle in her opinion.

Surprisingly, after tedious hours of autopsy, Roxie proved she wasn't afraid to autopsy one of the most graphic murders in Pacific Bay although she admits not having a taste of jazz music, which she thinks it's music for old people in her opinion. Roxie had to work with Yann about the details of the murder and as such, the killer broke the victim to pieces and matched his body parts to Elmer's song, "After the Storm", in which it was the victim's most popular song grounds for Amy and the player to deduce the killer having fluent knowledge of music.

Roxie told Amy and the player that breaking a body physically into pieces required specific tools to leave specific marks, suggesting the killer used an electric household blade (used to cut turkey) to commit the murder. Amy agreed to add the music knowledge flag to the killer's profile for now, but when the Play for Hope concert was reopened as a memorial for Elmer Buttons, Amy and the player didn't hesitate to investigate the concert at the Jazz Town Park and after careful investigation, Amy and the player found a storm survival kit with an Electric Turkey Carver found inside the kit. Since there was blood covered in the carver and it matched Roxie's description on what the killer used, the Electric Turkey Carver was confirmed as the murder weapon.

The player found some foreign substance on the handle of the carver, and the player managed to take a sample of white powder for Yann's analysis. After careful analysis, Yann determined the powder came from sugar and butter used for deep-frying which matched the recipe used in beignets (a pastry made from deep-fried choux paste), which means the killer ate a beignet prior to breaking Elmer into pieces with the murder weapon.

Case Appearances

 * After the Storm (Case #74, or Case #18 of Pacific Bay)