Little Murder on the Prairie

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Little Murder on the Prairie
Information
Season	4 (Mysteries of the Past)
City	Concordia
District	Coyote Gorge
Case #	27
Initial release date	23rd May 2017
Partner(s)	Isaac Bontemps (All Chapters) Maddie O'Malley (Once Upon a Time in the East 3) Charles Dupont (1 task in Once Upon a Time in the East 3)
Progression
← Preceded by	Giving up the Ghost
Succeeded by →	N/A

Little Murder on the Prairie is a case featured in Criminal Case as the twenty-seventh case of Mysteries of the Past (Season 4) and the one hundred ninety-eighth case overall. It takes place in the Coyote Gorge district of Concordia.

Plot

Charlie found an inhabited farm in Coyote Gorge, where Isaac and the player headed to find the stabbed body of Benjamin Galls.

During the investigation, Constable Ramirez accidentally released the farm's fowl. Later, Adaline Galls, Benjamin's daughter, threatened to shoot Charlie after he tried to show her his milking machine. The team found enough evidence to arrest Vinnie Costa for the murder.

Vinnie initially denied the acussations but then admitted to the crime. The Italian gang had sent him to forcefully evict Benjamin from his farm after he refused. Benjamin put up a fight and Vinnie threatened him with a pitchfork, but accidentally impaled Benjamin when he charged towards him. Judge Lawson sentenced him to 10 years in jail.

Post-trial, Isaac and the player interrogated Vinnie about the forced evictions. Vinnie refused to talk to protect his life from the gang but pointed the team to the Galls' kitchen, where they found a map with the evicted settlements. Per Evie, the Italians were expelling people from their lands in order to build a railway, although they did not know its purpose.

Meanwhile, Maddie, Charlie and the player gave Adaline the milking machine and helped her get Vinnie's dog. As they were leaving the farm, Charlie invited Maddie on a romantic date. As the team prepared to investigate the Italians' links to the Concordian Railway Company, Ramirez reported that a train derailed in a nearby track.

Summary

Victim

• Benjamin Galls (stabbed in the back on his farm)

Murder Weapon

• Pitchfork

Killer

• Vinnie Costa

Suspects

Adaline Galls

Clay Westwood

Giulietta Capecchi

Ethel Spencer

Vinnie Costa

Quasi-Suspect(s)

Charles Dupont

Killer's Profile

• The killer chews wheat.
• The killer has a collie.
• The killer drinks milk.
• The killer wears a cowboy hat.
• The killer has A negative blood type.

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Once Upon a Time in the East (3/6)

Trivia

• The case title is a pun on the American television series Little House on the Prairie.
• This is one of the cases where the killer is interrogated in the Additional Investigation for plausible reasons.
• The case was released on a Tuesday instead of the usual Thursday due to public holiday (Pentecost) in France.