White Peaks is the fifth district investigated in Criminal Case: Pacific Bay.
Primarily based on Aspen, Colorado, White Peaks is a snowy mountain range in the middle of Pacific Bay, where various communities, towns, and villages have settled despite the harsh climate of the region. Among the touristic attractions, ice rinks, ski ramps, and even a Love Village seem to be the most popular, not to mention the annual Frosty Cup acting as one of the most important events in all of Pacific Bay.
White Peaks mainly focuses on uncovering the truth about the Night Walker, a boogeyman who, according to the legend, lives in the forest and snatches people away, with its victims never coming back. We also get a glimpse of Amy's personal life and background as a resident of the district, including meeting her ex-boyfriend and her family.
- Leap of Death: A ski jumper is sliced in a half with a wire during a ski jumping competition.
- Hearts of Ice: An ice skater has his face slashed then left on an ice rink.
- Into the Woods: A tourist writer is partially sawed on a half within a timber mill.
- The Hunger Planes: A captain gets roasted alive over lava after his plane crashes in the mountains.
- The White Peaks Project: A filmmaker is impaled on a tree in the middle of the woods.
- The End of the Night: A myth hunter is stabbed with icicles while investigating an urban legend.
Tropes:
- Arc Villain: The Night Walker, a Slenderman-esque boogeyman who lives in the forest and has been kidnapping people away for some time. In the end, the Night Walker turns out to be none other than Duncan Young, Amy's own brother.
- A Day in the Limelight: Amy and her background are a big part of the district's storyline, where she slowly realizes that the good memories of her hometown are now gone, replaced by shadows of their former selves.
- Death Mountain: Considering how many people die in these mountains even without the Night Walker's interference...
- Trauma Conga Line: Poor Amy goes through so much crap in this district that, by the end of it, Chief Marquez has to put her on a temporal leave so she's able to recover: her ex-boyfriend (who she was starting to develop feelings for again) is arrested after being outed as a cannibal, her childhood friend is messily murdered, her mother is an abusive harpy who belittles her at any chance, and her own brother, the person she's been looking after during her entire life, turns out to be a messed up Serial Killer.
- Recurring Character: The main recurring characters for White Peaks are Duncan Young, Miriam Young, Roberto Vasquez, Bobby Prince, Allen Muir, and to a lesser extent Désiré Bower.
- "Scooby-Doo" Hoax: As expected, the Night Walker ends up being just a man wearing a mask and using the Urban Legend as a cover.
- Urban Legend: The main focus of White Peaks is unmasking the Night Walker, a supposed monster that used to be a Civil War soldier before an injury made him an outcast from society, which led to it becoming a monster that kidnaps people.
