IDEA - 9-28-2020
by
Patrick Ryan
1,552 Words
Becky Jupiter had several friends, earned straight A's, and joined various clubs and teams. That's why, when her body washed ashore in a nearby lake, the whole community was shocked. Becky had just begun her senior year, aiming to be valedictorian and go to an Ivy League college. As detective Roger Murphy arrived at the scene, he found quite a few onlookers had arrived. The detective called over a Sargent staff and asked him to gather everybody's names, and if anybody does anything atypical, make a note, and we'll discuss it. As interviews start and the investigation begins, they soon discover that Becky had a summer relationship with Jayden, a student who graduated last year. It supposedly ended with a huge fight at a party in late summer, though. Jayden became the detective's number one suspect. Detective Murphy visited the State University to question Jayden in his dorm. "Yeah, we were hanging out a little, but we weren't exclusive or anything, I haven't seen her since that party." When asked about the fight, Jayden answered, "It was the strangest thing, the fight was about nothing, she showed up to the party all pissed off and took it all out on me." Once Jayden established an alibi, he was playing pool with friends on campus, the detective's suspicion began to diminish. There were quite a few investigators on the case, as Becky's parents have money and won't rest until they bring the murderer to justice. One investigator found something unusual about her social media accounts; she has lots of friends and lots of posts with friends, but the posts are superficial when examined. There was a photo with a group of girls posted two weeks before her death; when he questioned the girls, they didn't even recall her being there. One girl recalled, she showed up to the party two hours late, took a few rando-pics, like this one, and jetted. Another girl claimed to be in the same math class two years in a row, and they would text each other about assignments and correct answers but never hung-out in person. In reality, none of her social media friends claimed to be her actual friend; they said she was cool, but it never went beyond hello in the hallways. As Detective Murphy stepped back from her social media, it seemed to exist to keep up appearances. There was no inclination about what her life was like outside school. So there he was, a dead end with the ex-boyfriend, dead-end with her so-called friends, and her parents knew absolutely nothing about her life. Detective Murphy wanted to return to the transcripts. After hours of interviewing, only one thing stood out; she was an ambitious kid; she would do anything to get a good grade. They interviewed 22 present and former teachers, and 20 of them said something similar. Rather than concentrating on the 20 that agreed, the investigator wanted to look at the two who didn't. One was her new Foreign Language teacher; the other was her sophomore year Biology teacher. Come to find out, the Foreign Language teacher was out on maternity leave for most of the quarter and was just starting to get to know her students. He turned to the Biology teacher. Looking at her report card, A+ is straight through every year, except for Biology, the first quarter was a B+, then the rest was all A+'s. The detective wanted to interview the teacher again. Suspicions emerged again when he didn't throw universal adulation towards Becky. Rather, nitpicking about poor writing and insufficient ambition. Why was he agitated about Becky? He had her two years ago; why say these things now, unless there was justification to say them. Toward the end of the interview, the Biology teacher said something that might have blown the case wide open. "I'm sorry not to say this the first time, but there was a student Becky didn't get along with, the class's former number one student, Miranda Fells." Miranda was the number one student in the class before leaving halfway through her sophomore year. Miranda supposedly moved to San Francisco, but there's no record of that student anywhere in the U.S. I suppose she may have attended school outside the U.S., but why was the Biology teacher the only one to mention it? Looking further into the Miranda case, the last two outgoing messages from the mother's g-mail account were to her work, resigning, and the school unregistering Miranda and demanding her transcript. Both emails suggest they're heading to San Francisco, as the teacher said, but they never did. If you're close to someone, it's easy to hack their email; they keep it logged in on computers, phones, and other internet of things. The Biology teacher had a thing for the valedictorians. When Miranda threatened to turn him in for an inappropriate relationship, he murdered both the mom and the daughter, sealing the deal by moving them halfway across the country. Continuing messages and paper trails, he covered his tracks. Digitally moving the mother and daughter to San Francisco, without suspicion, took a month. When he started to focus on Becky, she was open to his advances, and a relationship began. It ended suddenly in a fight, and she tried to turn him in. He was sloppy, overconfident, and lazy this time. Trying to pull off the same murder by chaining Becky to weights and forcing her to drown a mile out in the lake. On his way to murdering her parents, Becky slipped through the chains, and late-night joggers noticed her body. Upon arrival at the house, the principal texted the whole faculty and staff about Becky's body washing up on the lake's shore. He abandoned the second half of his plan and attempted to cover-up his relationship with the student instead.
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