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* The victim in ''The Grim Butcher'' deserves a special mention. She was burned with cigarettes and then cut open, her heart cut out, and then her body hung up alongside pig carcasses in a butcher's storehouse. And you're told that ''she was alive when she was being cut open''.

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* The victim in ''The Grim Butcher'' (pictured above) deserves a special mention. She was burned with cigarettes and then cut open, her heart cut out, and then her body hung up alongside pig carcasses in a butcher's storehouse. And you're told that ''she ''[[AndIMustScream she was alive when she was being cut open''.open]]''.



* ''Blood on the Trading Floor'' involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] while alive, his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose. Later it's mentioned that he broke both arms trying to escape due to the extreme pain. It's both [[{{Squick}} sickeningly violent]] and [[NauseaFuel very disturbing]] to witness.

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* ''Blood on the Trading Floor'' involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] while alive, [[CrucifiedHeroShot his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose.pose]]. Later it's mentioned that he broke both arms trying to escape due to the extreme pain. It's both [[{{Squick}} sickeningly violent]] and [[NauseaFuel very disturbing]] to witness.



** What makes this one even more disturbing is that the killer is none other than [[EvilUncle his grieving uncle]], who claimed that he made a DealWithTheDevil to make himself a famous racer. However, none of the Supernatural Hunters believed him since the claims were so ridiculous, and as such, chief Arrow then made it clear that the deal was nothing but a crazy dream he had, and in this universe, the Devil isn't real, and the way the uncle achieved his dream were through his efforts and never giving up, meaning that [[AllForNothing he killed his own nephew for nothing]], other than [[DrivenByEnvy raging envy]], and now his punishment is that [[AndIMustScream he will have to be tormented by this guilt for the rest of his life]].

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** What makes this one even more disturbing is that the killer is none other than [[EvilUncle his grieving uncle]], who claimed that he made a DealWithTheDevil to make himself a famous racer. However, none of the Supernatural Hunters believed believe him since the claims were so ridiculous, and as such, chief Arrow then made it clear that the deal was nothing but a crazy dream he had, and in this universe, the Devil isn't real, and the way the uncle achieved his dream were through his efforts and never giving up, meaning that [[AllForNothing he killed his own nephew for nothing]], other than [[DrivenByEnvy raging envy]], and now his punishment is that [[AndIMustScream [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he will have to be tormented by this guilt for the rest of his life]].
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* Case 25's victim had his head blown off by an ExplodingCigar. When Amy recovers his head, the bottom half of it is entirely missing.

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* Case 25's The victim in ''Going Once, Going Twice, Dead!'' had his head blown off by an ExplodingCigar. When Amy recovers his head, the bottom half of it is entirely missing.



* Case 29's victim was sliced in half with a katana. To top it all off, the killer is a samurai who killed the shogun because he felt guilty when he killed innocents when fighting under his army, and he wanted to become a monk. He is even ''given a death sentence by the shogun's wife.''

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* Case 29's The victim in ''A Slice of Death'' was sliced in half with a katana. To top it all off, the killer is a samurai who killed the shogun because he felt guilty when he killed innocents when fighting under his army, and he wanted to become a monk. He is even ''given a death sentence by the shogun's wife.''



* Being a season about hunting supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, the player is bound to encounter a lot of horrific moments this season. Case 1 is no exception; the victim was drained entirely of blood by a vampire which wasn't even what the killer had intended to do. The victim had wanted to become a vampire and asked the killer to turn her into one, only to be sucked dry because the killer hadn't tasted fresh blood in a long time and couldn't resist.
* The plotline of the West revolves around a vampire seeking complete immunity, starting by kidnapping an innocent girl for her virgin blood and leading the team on a wild goose chase. This culminates in Case 5, where they behead Dr. Aculus during his own ball. The real shocker is that the vampire turns out to be Eric Zwart, [[FromNobodyToNightmare who had appeared as the grief-ridden ex of the Case 1's victim, who sought invincibility]] [[AllTheOtherReindeer after being rejected by Aculus for being the youngest of his convent]], [[FromNobodyToNightmare only to kill him after he condemns Zwart for doing so.]]
* In Case 4, Priya is held at gunpoint by [[HunterOfMonsters Ruth Wu]] for no other reason than being a werewolf. One has to wonder what would have happened if Gwen hadn't arrived before she went ahead with it...
* In Case 5, Gwen falls victim to a vampire bite from [[PsychopathicManchild Bathsheba]], and nearly again by Pierce during the ball.
* Case 7's victim had his insides ripped out by a {{Chupacabra}}, which later tries to kill Luke, who luckily is able to kill it before it can get too close to him. One could imagine how devastating it would be had he been unable to shake it.

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* Being a season about hunting supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, the player is bound to encounter a lot of horrific moments this season. Case 1 ''Blood Lust'' is no exception; the victim was drained entirely of blood by a vampire which wasn't even what the killer had intended to do. The victim had wanted to become a vampire and asked the killer to turn her into one, only to be sucked dry because the killer hadn't tasted fresh blood in a long time and couldn't resist.
* The plotline of the West revolves around a vampire seeking complete immunity, starting by kidnapping an innocent girl for her virgin blood and leading the team on a wild goose chase. This culminates in Case 5, ''Immortal Combat'', where they behead Dr. Aculus during his own ball. The real shocker is that the vampire turns out to be Eric Zwart, [[FromNobodyToNightmare who had appeared as the grief-ridden ex of the Case 1's victim, victim in ''Blood Lust'', who sought invincibility]] [[AllTheOtherReindeer after being rejected by Aculus for being the youngest of his convent]], [[FromNobodyToNightmare only to kill him after he condemns Zwart for doing so.]]
* In Case 4, ''Hour of the Wolf'', Priya is held at gunpoint by [[HunterOfMonsters Ruth Wu]] for no other reason than being a werewolf. One has to wonder what would have happened if Gwen hadn't arrived before she went ahead with it...
* In Case 5, ''Immortal Combat'', Gwen falls victim to a vampire bite from [[PsychopathicManchild Bathsheba]], and nearly again by Pierce during the ball.
* Case 7's The victim in ''Gut Out'' had his insides ripped out by a {{Chupacabra}}, which later tries to kill Luke, who luckily is able to kill it before it can get too close to him. One could imagine how devastating it would be had he been unable to shake it.



* Case 8 has [[ValleyGirl Marigold Carson]] decapitated and chopped up in The Island of the Dolls. The kicker is that her killer, [[EnfantTerrible Tiffany, is really an]] EvilDoll [[EnfantTerrible that came to life and chopped her up because she saw "darkness in her soul". She then goes for Gwen after being arrested but is killed when her head is shot off]].
* Case 9 ''really'' takes the cake, even for a season like ''Supernatural Investigations.'' The case deals with the murder of a doctor at Blackmoor Asylum, whose skull was cracked open by a trepanning tool. While the asylum certainly has an unsettling vibe, it's tame compared to the ways the victim had abused the asylum's patients which lead to her assistant trying to "fix" her lack of empathy, killing her by accident while attempting to do a trepanation. The victim's actions included sewing a pair of twins against their will to conjoin them, threatening and abusing her patients with solitary confinement (many of whom are ''claustrophobic''), [[AbusiveParents throwing her sane daughter into the asylum and drugging her to prevent her escape, and murdering several of her patients, using their body parts to create Adam Enstrom, her assistant.]] Gwen is shocked and disgusted throughout the case, even saying that the victim deserved to die at one point. It goes to show that in a season with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons some of the worst monsters you find in it are humans.
* In Case 11, [[AssholeVictim Ruth Wu]] gets mauled to death by a werewolf, who killed her out of revenge: She killed his son when he was just a cub. [[KarmicDeath At least Ruth had it coming, though]].
* Case 12's victim is killed by a curse, causing his car to flip over during a race.

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* Case 8 ''Hashtag Murder'' has [[ValleyGirl Marigold Carson]] decapitated and chopped up in The Island of the Dolls. The kicker is that her killer, [[EnfantTerrible Tiffany, is really an]] EvilDoll [[EnfantTerrible that came to life and chopped her up because she saw "darkness in her soul". She then goes for Gwen after being arrested but is killed when her head is shot off]].
* Case 9 ''Mad World'' ''really'' takes the cake, even for a season like ''Supernatural Investigations.'' The case deals with the murder of a doctor at Blackmoor Asylum, whose skull was cracked open by a trepanning tool. While the asylum certainly has an unsettling vibe, it's tame compared to the ways the victim had abused the asylum's patients which lead to her assistant trying to "fix" her lack of empathy, killing her by accident while attempting to do a trepanation. The victim's actions included sewing a pair of twins against their will to conjoin them, threatening and abusing her patients with solitary confinement (many of whom are ''claustrophobic''), [[AbusiveParents throwing her sane daughter into the asylum and drugging her to prevent her escape, and murdering several of her patients, using their body parts to create Adam Enstrom, her assistant.]] Gwen is shocked and disgusted throughout the case, even saying that the victim deserved to die at one point. It goes to show that in a season with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons some of the worst monsters you find in it are humans.
* In Case 11, ''A One-Wolf Open Slay'', [[AssholeVictim Ruth Wu]] gets mauled to death by a werewolf, who killed her out of revenge: She killed his son when he was just a cub. [[KarmicDeath At least Ruth had it coming, though]].
* Case 12's The victim in ''Dead Heat'' is killed by a curse, causing his car to flip over during a race.



* In Case 15, the killer of Annette Strong turns out to be the fairly affable Zeke Davis. Upon being arrested, he reveals himself to be the demon they were searching for.

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* In Case 15, ''The Tree of Death'', the killer of Annette Strong turns out to be the fairly affable Zeke Davis. Upon being arrested, he reveals himself to be the demon they were searching for.



* While Case 16's murder is standard fare, the circumstances behind it are extremely disturbing. The misogynistic victim had actually [[KillAndReplace murdered his wife and replaced her with a submissive golem replica. She then realized that she was a replica of the victim and murdered him.]] To worsen matters, it turns out that their child had suddenly disappeared.
* Felix almost being killed by Clybourn Webster twice in case 17. He got shot in the elbow and was quickly brought back to the caravan and treated by Ben, then later held at knifepoint by Clybourn until Gwen manages to save him.

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* While Case 16's the murder in ''This American Death'' is standard fare, the circumstances behind it are extremely disturbing. The misogynistic victim had actually [[KillAndReplace murdered his wife and replaced her with a submissive golem replica. She then realized that she was a replica of the victim and murdered him.]] To worsen matters, it turns out that their child had suddenly disappeared.
* Felix almost being killed by Clybourn Webster twice in case 17.''Don't Die over Spilled Milk''. He got shot in the elbow and was quickly brought back to the caravan and treated by Ben, then later held at knifepoint by Clybourn until Gwen manages to save him.



* Case 19's victim was tied up to a tree and pecked to death by crows in a fashion similar to that of ''Film/TheBirds''. To make it worse, [[DisproportionateRetribution his death was planned by his employer as he couldn't bear to see him leave his job.]]

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* Case 19's The victim in ''A Murder of Crows'' was tied up to a tree and pecked to death by crows in a fashion similar to that of ''Film/TheBirds''. To make it worse, [[DisproportionateRetribution his death was planned by his employer as he couldn't bear to see him leave his job.]]



* Case 20 has Belinda, an aversion of AssholeVictim, drowned in a cauldron of unknown green liquid. To make things worse, her own sister, Morgana, had masterminded the murder because Belinda was interfering with her plans to eat children on Walpurgis Night to strengthen her powers. She takes advantage of Heather Night's insecurities in order to coax her into killing Belinda and keeping her own hands clean.

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* Case 20 ''Scry for Help'' has Belinda, an aversion of AssholeVictim, drowned in a cauldron of unknown green liquid. To make things worse, her own sister, Morgana, had masterminded the murder because Belinda was interfering with her plans to eat children on Walpurgis Night to strengthen her powers. She takes advantage of Heather Night's insecurities in order to coax her into killing Belinda and keeping her own hands clean.



* Case 21's victim was stabbed in the stomach and had his legs fed to a kraken. To make it worse, he hadn't actually done anything to deserve this - A mermaid-turned human was pining for his girlfriend and decided to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder him as a result.]]
* Case 23's victim, Agnes Leek, was hanged to death and [[TongueTrauma had her tongue cut out]]. At the end of the second chapter, her ghost surprises Gwen and the player, threatening to haunt them forever if they don't find her killer. When the killer is arrested, he reveals that he killed Agnes to end a curse on his family put on them by her ancestor 400 years ago.

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* Case 21's The victim in ''No Leg to Stand On'' was stabbed in the stomach and had his legs fed to a kraken. To make it worse, he hadn't actually done anything to deserve this - A mermaid-turned human was pining for his girlfriend and decided to [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder him as a result.]]
* Case 23's victim, The victim in ''Hocus Pocus'', Agnes Leek, was hanged to death and [[TongueTrauma had her tongue cut out]]. At the end of the second chapter, her ghost surprises Gwen and the player, threatening to haunt them forever if they don't find her killer. When the killer is arrested, he reveals that he killed Agnes to end a curse on his family put on them by her ancestor 400 years ago.



* In Case 24, the victim, a rare aversion of AssholeVictim, is killed with a cursed amulet, which turned his arm black and eventually killed him with a heart attack. To top it all off, the murder was just an accident: An archaeology professor tried to give him the amulet, but she was unaware that it was cursed, killing the victim.
* Case 25 features several.

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* In Case 24, ''Scarab to Death'', the victim, a rare aversion of AssholeVictim, is killed with a cursed amulet, which turned his arm black and eventually killed him with a heart attack. To top it all off, the murder was just an accident: An archaeology professor tried to give him the amulet, but she was unaware that it was cursed, killing the victim.
* Case 25 ''The Third Degree'' features several.



* Case 28's victim, Dolores Harper, had been impaled with magic vines. Her killer turns out to be none other than Morgana Blackhawk, who had regained her powers after swearing her loyalty to the evil demons, and she uses her newfound abilities to elude arrest. To make things worse, Morgana isn't the only new ally the demons have; in the Additional Investigation, the team finds out that ''Chief Arrow'' had sided with the Demon Queen as well, most likely because he couldn't let go of his dead wife.
* Case 29 has Roxanne Vega get impaled with a stake and pushed out a window. The killer turns out to be Fabien de la Mort, her right-hand man, who she had threatened after he refused to go along with her plan to help the demons enslave all of humanity and supernatural creatures. Roxanne's actions were so horrific that the Supernatural Alliance acquitted him of all charges.

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* Case 28's victim, The victim in ''The Hunted Hunter'', Dolores Harper, had been impaled with magic vines. Her killer turns out to be none other than Morgana Blackhawk, who had regained her powers after swearing her loyalty to the evil demons, and she uses her newfound abilities to elude arrest. To make things worse, Morgana isn't the only new ally the demons have; in the Additional Investigation, the team finds out that ''Chief Arrow'' had sided with the Demon Queen as well, most likely because he couldn't let go of his dead wife.
* Case 29 ''Divided We Fall'' has Roxanne Vega get impaled with a stake and pushed out a window. The killer turns out to be Fabien de la Mort, her right-hand man, who she had threatened after he refused to go along with her plan to help the demons enslave all of humanity and supernatural creatures. Roxanne's actions were so horrific that the Supernatural Alliance acquitted him of all charges.



* Case 30 takes place in the Netherworld, which is populated by demons. After being arrested in the previous case, the team finds Arthur slashed to death and drained of blood, and are all alone now that he can't protect them anymore. They are forced to solve the murder while quietly avoiding the Demon Queen's wrath wherever they go.

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* Case 30 ''To Hell and Back'' takes place in the Netherworld, which is populated by demons. After being arrested in the previous case, the team finds Arthur slashed to death and drained of blood, and are all alone now that he can't protect them anymore. They are forced to solve the murder while quietly avoiding the Demon Queen's wrath wherever they go.



** The killer turns out to be Zeke Davis, the same demon that Arthur had banished to the Netherworld all the way back in Case 15. He claims that he did it to save the Earth...not because he cared for the beings who lived on it, but because he enjoyed the resources and felt superior to its lifeforms. He also reveals that he had given Arthur's blood to the Chief for safekeeping, not realizing that the Chief had allied with the Queen and helped release her from her vessel.

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** The killer turns out to be Zeke Davis, the same demon that Arthur had banished to the Netherworld all the way back in Case 15.''The Tree of Death''. He claims that he did it to save the Earth...not because he cared for the beings who lived on it, but because he enjoyed the resources and felt superior to its lifeforms. He also reveals that he had given Arthur's blood to the Chief for safekeeping, not realizing that the Chief had allied with the Queen and helped release her from her vessel.



* Case 4's victim was decapitated inside her bedroom with a meat cleaver. To make it worse, her murderer turns out to be her son, who did so because she rejected the idea of converting their house into a bed and breakfast to maintain their wealth, while trying to frame the head chef.
* When Melodie Laurence's true colors finally show in Case 13. After initially coming across as a DumbBlonde, she quickly reveals her true intentions with the Luvver app, while donning a NightmareFace to follow.
* The death of Céleste Alouest in Case 14, where her stomach explodes because of a cesium powder pill and splatters all over the place. Not only is it a terrifying sight, but the sound of it has left all the suspects shaken. To make it worse, the person responsible for adding the pill had no idea it would kill her - she simply assumed it would have made her sick.

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* Case 4's The victim in ''Party Like It's 1699'' was decapitated inside her bedroom with a meat cleaver. To make it worse, her murderer turns out to be her son, who did so because she rejected the idea of converting their house into a bed and breakfast to maintain their wealth, while trying to frame the head chef.
* When Melodie Laurence's true colors finally show in Case 13.''Queen of Hearts''. After initially coming across as a DumbBlonde, she quickly reveals her true intentions with the Luvver app, while donning a NightmareFace to follow.
* The death of Céleste Alouest in Case 14, ''Out With a Bang'', where her stomach explodes because of a cesium powder pill and splatters all over the place. Not only is it a terrifying sight, but the sound of it has left all the suspects shaken. To make it worse, the person responsible for adding the pill had no idea it would kill her - she simply assumed it would have made her sick.
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* In ''Out of Breath'', the victim Doris Black was beaten and strangled to death with their own apron. This is yet another case of [[MundaneMadeAwesome Mundane Made Awesome]], after René Narcisse's death. The killer turns out to be [[CainAndAbel her own brother, simply because she didn't want him getting into affairs with the meteor.]]

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* In ''Out of Breath'', the victim Doris Black was beaten and strangled to death with their her own apron. This is yet another case of [[MundaneMadeAwesome Mundane Made Awesome]], after René Narcisse's death. The killer turns out to be [[CainAndAbel her own brother, simply because she didn't want him getting into affairs with the meteor.]]
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* ''Once Upon a Crime'' involves a teenaged movie star getting slammed into a mirror and slashed to death. And the killer is her own mother, jealous of her daughter's success and her own [[WhiteDwarfStarlet fading memory.]]

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* ''Once Upon a Crime'' involves a teenaged teenage movie star getting slammed into a mirror and slashed to death. And the killer is her own mother, jealous of her daughter's success and her own [[WhiteDwarfStarlet fading memory.]]
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* In ''Bridge Over Troubled Water'', a taxi driver was disemboweled and hung up like a pig in the slaughterhouse.

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* In ''Bridge Over Troubled Water'', a taxi driver was disemboweled and hung up like a pig in the slaughterhouse. A lot like ''The Grim Butcher'', only this time we get to see the results.
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* Case 8 has [[ValleyGirl Marigold Carson]] decapitated and chopped up in The Island of the Dolls. The kicker is that her killer, [[EnfantTerrible Tiffany, is really an]] EvilDoll [[EnfantTerrible that came to life and chopped her up for refusing to play with her. She then goes for Gwen after being arrested but is killed when her head is shot off]].

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* Case 8 has [[ValleyGirl Marigold Carson]] decapitated and chopped up in The Island of the Dolls. The kicker is that her killer, [[EnfantTerrible Tiffany, is really an]] EvilDoll [[EnfantTerrible that came to life and chopped her up for refusing to play with her.because she saw "darkness in her soul". She then goes for Gwen after being arrested but is killed when her head is shot off]].
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* In ''The Art of Murder'', Meera is killed by being locked inside a cage and dunked into lava, while her killer sat back and watched her suffer. While the case goes deeper into her disturbed personality, her killer turns out to be ''even worse than she was'' in that regard. Meera's killer, Christian Bateman, had sick fantasies of torturing women and was so ambitious and driven that he became devoid of all emotion and empathy. He managed to fall in love with Meera, but when she rejected him, he snapped and killed her, enjoying the sounds of her screaming as she died. And he considers himself the sanest person in the room as he laughs about the murder.

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* In ''The Art of Murder'', Meera is killed by being locked inside a cage and dunked into lava, while her killer sat back and watched her suffer. While the case goes deeper into her disturbed personality, her killer turns out to be ''even worse than she was'' in that regard. Meera's killer, Christian Bateman, had sick fantasies of torturing women and was so ambitious and driven that he became devoid of all emotion and empathy. He managed to fall in love with Meera, but when she rejected him, he snapped and killed her, enjoying the sounds of her screaming as she died. And if all that wasn't enough for you, this is what he considers himself the sanest person in the room tells you as he laughs about the murder.



* The victim in ''Buzz Kill'' [[BeeAfraid fell head-first into a beehive]]. When you recover his body, [[BodyHorror his entire face is covered in lumps and blood]], and you're then told he suffered close to ''3,000'' stings alone (for sake of reference, Martine explains that much venom is capable of killing a ''horse''). The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her without her consent (which is horrifying in itself) and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.

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* The victim in ''Buzz Kill'' [[BeeAfraid fell head-first into a beehive]]. When you recover his body, [[BodyHorror his entire face is covered in lumps and blood]], and you're then told he suffered close to ''3,000'' stings alone (for sake of reference, Martine explains that much venom is capable of killing a ''horse'').'''''horse'''''). The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her without her consent (which is horrifying in itself) and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.



* Case 9 ''really'' takes the cake, even for a season like ''Supernatural Investigations.'' The case deals with the murder of a doctor at Blackmoor Asylum, whose skull was cracked open by a trepanning tool. While the asylum certainly has an unsettling vibe, it's tame compared to the ways the victim had abused the asylum's patients which lead to her assistant trying to "fix" her lack of empathy, killing her by accident while attempting to do a trepanation. The victim's actions included sewing a pair of twins against their will to conjoin them, threatening and abusing her patients with solitary confinement (many of whom are ''claustrophobic''), [[AbusiveParents throwing her sane daughter into the asylum and drugging her to prevent her escape, and murdering several of her patients, using their body parts to create Adam Enstrom, her assistant.]] Gwen is shocked and disgusted throughout the case, even saying that the victim deserved to die at one point.

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* Case 9 ''really'' takes the cake, even for a season like ''Supernatural Investigations.'' The case deals with the murder of a doctor at Blackmoor Asylum, whose skull was cracked open by a trepanning tool. While the asylum certainly has an unsettling vibe, it's tame compared to the ways the victim had abused the asylum's patients which lead to her assistant trying to "fix" her lack of empathy, killing her by accident while attempting to do a trepanation. The victim's actions included sewing a pair of twins against their will to conjoin them, threatening and abusing her patients with solitary confinement (many of whom are ''claustrophobic''), [[AbusiveParents throwing her sane daughter into the asylum and drugging her to prevent her escape, and murdering several of her patients, using their body parts to create Adam Enstrom, her assistant.]] Gwen is shocked and disgusted throughout the case, even saying that the victim deserved to die at one point. It goes to show that in a season with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons some of the worst monsters you find in it are humans.
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** The victim, Theresa Rosenthal, was killed in a pretty horrific way: she was drugged with [[TruthSerums a truth serum]] which caused her to experience SensoryOverload, then the [[MurderBySuicide "killer"]] inflicted a MindRape so distressful on her that she ''shoot herself'' just to escape from the pain. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon]], [[EveryoneHasStandards is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out]].

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** The victim, Theresa Rosenthal, was killed in a pretty horrific way: she was drugged with [[TruthSerums a truth serum]] which caused her to experience SensoryOverload, then the [[MurderBySuicide "killer"]] inflicted a MindRape so distressful on her that she ''shoot ''shot herself'' just to escape from the pain. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon]], [[EveryoneHasStandards is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out]].
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*** And keep in mind, this is only Case '''''3'''''. This game does not mess around.
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* The victim in ''Buzz Kill'' [[BeeAfraid fell head-first into a beehive]]. When you recover his body, [[BodyHorror his entire face is covered in lumps and blood]], and you're then told he suffered close to ''3,000'' stings alone. The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.

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* The victim in ''Buzz Kill'' [[BeeAfraid fell head-first into a beehive]]. When you recover his body, [[BodyHorror his entire face is covered in lumps and blood]], and you're then told he suffered close to ''3,000'' stings alone. alone (for sake of reference, Martine explains that much venom is capable of killing a ''horse''). The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her without her consent (which is horrifying in itself) and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.



* Most if not all of the murders that take place in the University are quite gruesome in one way or another.

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* Most if not all of the murders that take place in the University are quite gruesome in one way or another. It says something when being slashed and stabbed in the neck is the ''least'' violent death in the district.
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* In Case 12, Meera is killed by being locked inside a cage and dunked into lava, while her killer sat back and watched her suffer. While the case goes deeper into her disturbed personality, her killer turns out to be ''even worse than she was'' in that regard. Meera's killer, Christian Bateman, had sick fantasies of torturing women and was so ambitious and driven that he became devoid of all emotion and empathy. He managed to fall in love with Meera, but when she rejected him, he snapped and killed her, enjoying the sounds of her screaming as she died. And he considers himself the sanest person in the room as he laughs about the murder.
--> '''Killer:''' You think ''i'm'' crazy? I'm the sanest person in this room! I'm the only one honest enough to face my darkest fantasies!
* Case 16's victim [[BeeScared fell head-first into a beehive]]. When you recover his body, [[BodyHorror his entire face is covered in lumps and blood]], and you're then told he suffered close to ''3,000'' stings alone. The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.

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* In Case 12, ''The Art of Murder'', Meera is killed by being locked inside a cage and dunked into lava, while her killer sat back and watched her suffer. While the case goes deeper into her disturbed personality, her killer turns out to be ''even worse than she was'' in that regard. Meera's killer, Christian Bateman, had sick fantasies of torturing women and was so ambitious and driven that he became devoid of all emotion and empathy. He managed to fall in love with Meera, but when she rejected him, he snapped and killed her, enjoying the sounds of her screaming as she died. And he considers himself the sanest person in the room as he laughs about the murder.
--> '''Killer:''' '''Christian:''' You think ''i'm'' ''I'm'' crazy? I'm the sanest person in this room! I'm the only one honest enough to face my darkest fantasies!
* Case 16's The victim [[BeeScared in ''Buzz Kill'' [[BeeAfraid fell head-first into a beehive]]. When you recover his body, [[BodyHorror his entire face is covered in lumps and blood]], and you're then told he suffered close to ''3,000'' stings alone. The murder wasn't even intentional; His secretary attempted to confront him about trying to impregnate her and hit him too hard, causing him to stumble onto the beehive.



* In Case 18, the victim is killed by an exploding VR headset, and when her body is retrieved it's clearly shown that ''a large chunk of her head had been blown off.'' The killer turned out to be her brother, who booby-trapped her headset because he was furious over her neglect of their dying father.
* In Case 24, Steven Crowe is stabbed in the eyes by his own earrings.
* Case 29's victim was immolated with absinthe during her own award ceremony.
* In the final case of Maple Heights, Mayor Martha Price ends up being eaten to death by the Demon Fish that were captured in the penultimate case of the area. The killer turns out to be her cousin, the eccentric scientist Ernest Emerson. Ernest, who had been studying the Demon Fish for a while, was glad to have discovered them after looking for so long and was angered when Martha wanted to exterminate the species to protect Grimsborough. When she didn't suck up to his ForScience beliefs, he proceeded to release them through Maple Heights, which ended up killing her and at least 20 other people.
* In Case 32, lab chief Rupert Winchester had his killer spray hemlock-laced gas on him, which shut down his nervous system as he tried to escape the dome. When the killer is caught, she reveals that she knew the real Pickering and Rupert allowing her to blow his cover, shocking the Grimsborough PD as she was the only thing they weren't able to account for on Rupert's mission. In spite of having known Rupert, she shows no remorse for killing him and says that she would do it again if she could.
* Case 33's victim, the rather cold Barb Bellamy, had her head sawed right off her body, ''five minutes before the police arrived at the crime scene.''
* While Case 34's murder is standard fare, after the killer Zoe Kusama is arrested, it is revealed that Dreamlife had been running human experimentation under the dome, kidnapping several unsuspecting civilians and using them to test the new drugs the company is developing. The victim had been the one to perform those experiments, and when Zoe sees him again, the horrible memories come flooding back to her and enrage her so much that she ends up beating the victim to death with a rock.
* Case 35. Oh boy...

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* In Case 18, ''Game Over'', the victim is killed by an exploding VR headset, and when her body is retrieved it's clearly shown that ''a large chunk of her head had been blown off.'' The killer turned out to be her brother, who booby-trapped her headset because he was furious over her neglect of their dying father.
* In Case 24, ''The Truth Hurts'', Steven Crowe is stabbed in the eyes by his own earrings.
* Case 29's The victim in ''Light my Fire'' was immolated with absinthe during her own award ceremony.
* In ''Blood in the final case of Maple Heights, Water'', Mayor Martha Price ends up being eaten to death by the Demon Fish that were captured in the penultimate case of the area. The killer turns out to be her cousin, the eccentric scientist Ernest Emerson. Ernest, who had been studying the Demon Fish for a while, was glad to have discovered them after looking for so long and was angered when Martha wanted to exterminate the species to protect Grimsborough. When she didn't suck up to his ForScience beliefs, he proceeded to release them through Maple Heights, which ended up killing her and at least 20 other people.
* In Case 32, ''Things Fall Apart'', lab chief Rupert Winchester had his killer spray hemlock-laced gas on him, which shut down his nervous system as he tried to escape the dome. When the killer is caught, she reveals that she knew the real Pickering and Rupert allowing her to blow his cover, shocking the Grimsborough PD as she was the only thing they weren't able to account for on Rupert's mission. In spite of having known Rupert, she shows no remorse for killing him and says that she would do it again if she could.
* Case 33's victim, The victim in ''A Rock and a Hard Place'', the rather cold Barb Bellamy, had her head sawed right off her body, ''five minutes before the police arrived at the crime scene.''
* While Case 34's the murder in ''Death in My Hand'' is standard fare, after the killer Zoe Kusama is arrested, it is revealed that Dreamlife had been running human experimentation under the dome, kidnapping several unsuspecting civilians and using them to test the new drugs the company is developing. The victim had been the one to perform those experiments, and when Zoe sees him again, the horrible memories come flooding back to her and enrage her so much that she ends up beating the victim to death with a rock.
* Case 35. Oh boy...''In Cold Blood''.



*** It also turns out that the drug is being sent out into Grimsborough by Shweta Noorani, the same person behind making the virus from Case 21 in ''World Edition''. By the time you arrest Shweta, the drug's shipment is about to head into Grimsborough.
* In Case 36, Tony Marconi is burned alive by a Molotov cocktail. The killer is the son he'd spent the season trying to protect, who truly believed that Protozane would do good for Grimsborough and refused to side with Marconi because of his past as a mobster.

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*** It also turns out that the drug is being sent out into Grimsborough by Shweta Noorani, the same person behind making the virus from Case 21 ''Plagued by Death'' in ''World Edition''. By the time you arrest Shweta, the drug's shipment is about to head into Grimsborough.
* In Case 36, ''Up in Flames'', Tony Marconi is burned alive by a Molotov cocktail. The killer is the son he'd spent the season trying to protect, who truly believed that Protozane would do good for Grimsborough and refused to side with Marconi because of his past as a mobster.



** Case 37's victim was sawed in half, ''alive'', and recorded by the killer just to finish off the film she was starring in.
** Case 38's victim was slashed to death [[MundaneMadeAwesome with a fork]].
** Case 39's victim was shot in the eye using a modified paintball gun. And it happened during a seemingly normal game of paintball, [[ParanoiaFuel where the shots fired aren't supposed to hurt anyone.]]
** Case 40's victim is a particularly gruesome one. The victim was knocked unconscious and then tied to a table and workbench vise, before waking up as her head was being crushed in by the vise. When you retrieve her body, ''blood is coming out of her mouth and eyes''. Her killer turns out to be the {{Jerkass}} groundskeeper, who killed her because she caught him hiding the body of his long-deceased wife, who met a similar fate.
** Case 41 takes place during Halloween, and the actual murder itself is fittingly terrifying: The victim is sliced nearly in half by a scythe, and ''his guts are actually shown spilling out.'' One of the crime scenes, Lily Chen's costume shop, has a similarly creepy aura to it. The killer turns out to be the victim's younger brother, who was in love with the victim's girlfriend and couldn't stand it when she rejected his advances, [[MurderTheHypotenuse deciding to take his brother out of the equation.]]
** After an entire district of brutal murders, the University's finale in Case 42 has the victim, Kevin Charles, whipped to death. To make it worse, all five of the suspects, all Ad Astra members, took part in the murder, given the orders by Rozetta to protect her former colleagues.

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** Case 37's ''Final Cut'': The victim was sawed in half, ''alive'', and recorded by the killer just to finish off the film she was starring in.
** Case 38's ''Pain in the Neck'': The victim was slashed to death [[MundaneMadeAwesome with a fork]].
** Case 39's ''Deadeye'': The victim was shot in the eye using a modified paintball gun. And it happened during a seemingly normal game of paintball, [[ParanoiaFuel where the shots fired aren't supposed to hurt anyone.]]
** Case 40's ''Game, Set, Murder'': The victim is suffered a particularly gruesome one.death. The victim was knocked unconscious and then tied to a table and workbench vise, before waking up as her head was being crushed in by the vise. When you retrieve her body, ''blood is coming out of her mouth and eyes''. Her killer turns out to be the {{Jerkass}} groundskeeper, who killed her because she caught him hiding the body of his long-deceased wife, who met a similar fate.
** Case 41 ''Trick or Treat'' takes place during Halloween, and the actual murder itself is fittingly terrifying: The victim is sliced nearly in half by a scythe, and ''his guts are actually shown spilling out.'' One of the crime scenes, Lily Chen's costume shop, has a similarly creepy aura to it. The killer turns out to be the victim's younger brother, who was in love with the victim's girlfriend and couldn't stand it when she rejected his advances, [[MurderTheHypotenuse deciding to take his brother out of the equation.]]
** After an entire district of brutal murders, the University's finale in Case 42 ''Lashing Out'' has the victim, Kevin Charles, whipped to death. To make it worse, all five of the suspects, all Ad Astra members, took part in the murder, given the orders by Rozetta to protect her former colleagues.



** Case 43's victim was shotgunned to the point his heart was exposed and then left in a burning field.
** Case 44 is very similar to Case 41; The victim has her skull crushed by a cattle bold and her chest branded. The killer, a cheesemaker called Tallulah Shropshire, committed the murder not just because she thought the priest had a crush on both of them, but that the victim had stolen Tallulah's previous boyfriend.
** Case 45's victim was poisoned with a heavy amount of cyanide, causing her to suffer seizures as she died.
*** In the same case, you discover the reason behind the cornfields being burnt. Fornax, who is revealed to be [=AgriMeadow=] CEO Julia Brine, was sent Rozetta's Protozane shipment. She then grew resilient corn seedlings laced with the Protozane before hiring Case 43's killer to burn the field, intending to sell the drugged seedlings to the farmers in an intend to ''brainwash all of Grimsborough''.
** Case 46 might take the cake for the most gruesome case in the game. The victim was cut into pieces and left in a pig trough. To make things worse, the victim is Mia Loukas's father, and Jones is incredibly hesitant to tell her that he was murdered in such a brutal fashion.

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** Case 43's ''Fields of Murder'': The victim was shotgunned to the point his heart was exposed and then left in a burning field.
** Case 44 ''A Crime Like No Udder'' is very similar to Case 41; ''Trick or Treat''; The victim has her skull crushed by a cattle bold and her chest branded. The killer, a cheesemaker called Tallulah Shropshire, committed the murder not just because she thought the priest had a crush on both of them, but that the victim had stolen Tallulah's previous boyfriend.
** Case 45's ''A Pointy End'': The victim was poisoned with a heavy amount of cyanide, causing her to suffer seizures as she died.
*** In the same case, you discover the reason behind the cornfields being burnt. Fornax, who is revealed to be [=AgriMeadow=] CEO Julia Brine, was sent Rozetta's Protozane shipment. She then grew resilient corn seedlings laced with the Protozane before hiring Case 43's the killer in ''Fields of Murder'' to burn the field, intending to sell the drugged seedlings to the farmers in an intend to ''brainwash all of Grimsborough''.
** Case 46 ''Like a Pig to the Slaughter'' might take the cake for the most gruesome case in the game. The victim was cut into pieces and left in a pig trough. To make things worse, the victim is Mia Loukas's father, and Jones is incredibly hesitant to tell her that he was murdered in such a brutal fashion.



** Case 47 has Christian's mother drowned to death in her own wine. The killer doesn't turn out to be her son, but her best friend. However, the AI turns out to be very unsettling; Ad Astra intends to go ahead with "Plan Supernova", and Christian is very much aware of Julia's arrest. And during the end of the case, a bomb goes off, leaving the player at a cliffhanger.
** Case 48 is this and a TearJerker; The car bomb in the previous case is revealed to have killed the young rookie cop, Mia Loukas. And to make it worse, [[MurderByMistake Mia wasn't the intended victim]]; it was ''[[TheHeroDies you]]''.
*** During the finale of the case, you learn that Mayor Joe Warren is not only part of Ad Astra, but wanted you dead. This is in spite of the fact that in his past appearances, he was a fairly friendly person, even helping the team shut down Dreamlife.
* Even though Case 50 is not very gruesome (as the victim was shot to death), it involves a city-wide blackout occurring, which wouldn't be too unusual if it wasn't part of Ad Astra's plan, and when electricity is restored, it's revealed that Ad Astra may be getting their hands into human enhancement. Considering that they already perfected emotional suppression and mind control, this makes the enhancement part much more terrifying.

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** Case 47 ''In Vino Veritas'' has Christian's mother drowned to death in her own wine. The killer doesn't turn out to be her son, but her best friend. However, the AI turns out to be very unsettling; Ad Astra intends to go ahead with "Plan Supernova", and Christian is very much aware of Julia's arrest. And during the end of the case, a bomb goes off, leaving the player at a cliffhanger.
** Case 48 ''To Kingdom Come'' is this and a TearJerker; The car bomb in the previous case is revealed to have killed the young rookie cop, Mia Loukas. And to make it worse, [[MurderByMistake Mia wasn't the intended victim]]; it was ''[[TheHeroDies you]]''.
*** During the finale of the case, finale, you learn that Mayor Joe Warren is not only part of Ad Astra, but wanted you dead. This is in spite of the fact that in his past appearances, he was a fairly friendly person, even helping the team shut down Dreamlife.
* Even though Case 50 ''Lights Out'' is not very gruesome (as the victim was shot to death), it involves a city-wide blackout occurring, which wouldn't be too unusual if it wasn't part of Ad Astra's plan, and when electricity is restored, it's revealed that Ad Astra may be getting their hands into human enhancement. Considering that they already perfected emotional suppression and mind control, this makes the enhancement part much more terrifying.



* In Case 51, the victim Doris Black was beaten and strangled to death with their own apron. This is yet another case of [[MundaneMadeAwesome Mundane Made Awesome]], after René Narcisse's death. The killer turns out to be [[CainAndAbel her own brother, simply because she didn't want him getting into affairs with the meteor.]]

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* In Case 51, ''Out of Breath'', the victim Doris Black was beaten and strangled to death with their own apron. This is yet another case of [[MundaneMadeAwesome Mundane Made Awesome]], after René Narcisse's death. The killer turns out to be [[CainAndAbel her own brother, simply because she didn't want him getting into affairs with the meteor.]]



* Case 52, like Case 48, doubles as a [[TearJerker Tear Jerker]]. Jones' girlfriend, Zoe Kusama dies of getting her head bashed in, which is ironic as she killed a scientist in a similar way. The killer turns out to be one of her friends, journalist Louis Leroux, who didn't even want to kill her, just render her unconscious as she didn't tell him about her telekinetic abilities, which she has because Dreamlife mistakenly injected her with their superhuman serum instead of Protozane.
* Case 53's victim was attacked with acid, leaving burn marks on her face. Even [[NightmareFetishist Martine]] is disturbed when she does the autopsy.
* Case 54's victim, Louis Leroux, really takes the cake. [[NotEnoughToBury He ends up getting blown to death in his prison cell, his limbs scattered all over the floor.]]
** His death was ordered by someone who felt Ad Astra had outlived their usefulness. Think about that. Five extremely powerful and influential criminals were working for someone else the whole time. In the case's AI, it is revealed that the remaining Ad Astrans kidnapped Jake and Carter Hayes and each has a different superpower. Christian has cryokinesis, Joe has telekinesis, Julia can create poison gas, and Rozetta has electrokinesis. To top it all off, the four of them are legitimately terrified for their lives despite these powers. One can only imagine as to who could possibly have them so scared?
* Case 55's murder isn't a gruesome one, but the context behind it is ''terrifying''. Previously, Ad Astra had kidnapped Gloria's ex-husband and son and handed them over to an accomplice who shot Jake to death when he tried to fight back. Carter (who is only 12 years old) is forced to watch as his father is killed ''right in front of him.'' As the investigation continues, we are constantly reminded that Carter is still in the killer's clutches, and his life depends on us catching them. Then it's revealed that the killer was tricked into thinking that Jake was a political enemy, and killed him to stay on the Mayor's good side.
* Case 56's victim, Trishna Joshi, was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in just three minutes. The killer turned out to be an egotistical retired astronaut, who killed her just because she didn't sterilize his spaceship properly, making him lose his job.

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* Case 52, ''Head Case'', like Case 48, ''To Kingdom Come'', doubles as a [[TearJerker Tear Jerker]]. Jones' girlfriend, Zoe Kusama dies of getting her head bashed in, which is ironic as she killed a scientist in a similar way. The killer turns out to be one of her friends, journalist Louis Leroux, who didn't even want to kill her, just render her unconscious as she didn't tell him about her telekinetic abilities, which she has because Dreamlife mistakenly injected her with their superhuman serum instead of Protozane.
* Case 53's The victim in ''Playing Dead'' was attacked with acid, leaving burn marks on her face. Even [[NightmareFetishist Martine]] is disturbed when she does the autopsy.
* Case 54's victim, The victim in ''Breaking News'', Louis Leroux, really takes the cake. [[NotEnoughToBury He ends up getting blown to death in his prison cell, his limbs scattered all over the floor.]]
** His death was ordered by someone who felt Ad Astra had outlived their usefulness. Think about that. Five extremely powerful and influential criminals were working for someone else the whole time. In the case's AI, it is revealed that the remaining Ad Astrans kidnapped Jake and Carter Hayes and each has a different superpower. Christian has cryokinesis, Joe has telekinesis, Julia can create poison gas, and Rozetta has electrokinesis. To top it all off, the four of them are legitimately terrified for their lives despite these powers. One can only imagine as to who could possibly have them so scared?
* Case 55's The murder in ''Running Scared'' isn't a gruesome one, but the context behind it is ''terrifying''. Previously, Ad Astra had kidnapped Gloria's ex-husband and son and handed them over to an accomplice who shot Jake to death when he tried to fight back. Carter (who is only 12 years old) is forced to watch as his father is killed ''right in front of him.'' As the investigation continues, we are constantly reminded that Carter is still in the killer's clutches, and his life depends on us catching them. Then it's revealed that the killer was tricked into thinking that Jake was a political enemy, and killed him to stay on the Mayor's good side.
* Case 56's victim, The victim in ''To Eternity and Beyond'', Trishna Joshi, was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in just three minutes. The killer turned out to be an egotistical retired astronaut, who killed her just because she didn't sterilize his spaceship properly, making him lose his job.



* Case 57's has [[AxCrazy Christian Bateman]] get killed with a deadly TranquilizerDart, proving that not even superpowers can prevent the Ad Astrans from dying. The context behind the murder is also harrowing; Mayor Warren had no choice but to [[MercyKill perform a coup de grace]], as the super serum had not only caused illness for the Ad Astrans, but because it had caused Bateman to completely lose his mind. And you're told that the serum may possibly kill the Ad Astrans.
** The Additional Investigation of the case proves that not only did Denise Daniels [[WellDoneSonGuy never approve of Rozetta's attempts to impress her]], but that she had baited Rozetta into doing her dirty work with the meteorite after estranging her years prior. Then afterwards, betray her and her friends again to do something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Rozetta and Louis are terrified of what she's doing with it]].
* Case 58's victim was bashed in the head so much that his brain was exposed. It gets worse when the killer (his wife) is arrested, she reveals that she found out he had been helping Denise Daniels create superhumans and subjecting them to horrifying tests, and killed him hoping to put a stop to the experiments.

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* Case 57's ''Reap What You Sow'' has [[AxCrazy Christian Bateman]] get killed with a deadly TranquilizerDart, proving that not even superpowers can prevent the Ad Astrans from dying. The context behind the murder is also harrowing; Mayor Warren had no choice but to [[MercyKill perform a coup de grace]], as the super serum had not only caused illness for the Ad Astrans, but because it had caused Bateman to completely lose his mind. And you're told that the serum may possibly kill the Ad Astrans.
** The Additional Investigation of the case proves that not only did Denise Daniels [[WellDoneSonGuy never approve of Rozetta's attempts to impress her]], but that she had baited Rozetta into doing her dirty work with the meteorite after estranging her years prior. Then afterwards, betray her and her friends again to do something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Rozetta and Louis are terrified of what she's doing with it]].
* Case 58's The victim in ''Extinguished'' was bashed in the head so much that his brain was exposed. It gets worse when the killer (his wife) is arrested, she reveals that she found out he had been helping Denise Daniels create superhumans and subjecting them to horrifying tests, and killed him hoping to put a stop to the experiments.



* Case 59's victim had his organs liquefied by a sonic boom gun intended for mining, deflating his entire body. And to make it worse, he was killed trying to prevent one of Denise Daniels' cronies (in this case, her lawyer) from carrying out her plan to destroy Grimsborough.

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* Case 59's The victim in ''Eve of Disaster'' had his organs liquefied by a sonic boom gun intended for mining, deflating his entire body. And to make it worse, he was killed trying to prevent one of Denise Daniels' cronies (in this case, her lawyer) from carrying out her plan to destroy Grimsborough.



* Case 60 involves stopping the neohuman army, who solely intend on completely destroying Grimsborough. However, during the riots, you find not only Rozetta and Julia's bodies, but also [[OffWithHisHead Denise's head on display at the courthouse.]]

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* Case 60 ''Blaze of Glory'' involves stopping the neohuman army, who solely intend on completely destroying Grimsborough. However, during the riots, you find not only Rozetta and Julia's bodies, but also [[OffWithHisHead Denise's head on display at the courthouse.]]



* While Julius Caesar's murder in the first case isn't actually graphic and has a rather humorous motive, [[ForWantOfANail it also ends up creating several problems for future events during the BC era]], such as Octavian intending to destroy Egypt instead of conquering it, and causes history to be altered to the point where Ancient Egypt takes over the world.
* Octavian himself deserves a mention due to [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade being incredibly violent]], [[LackOfEmpathy callous]], and [[SmugSnake smug]]. Particularly, stringing along the vestal virgin murderer of Case 3 and convincing her to kill her mother, a political opponent of his, to get her out of her lifestyle, only to excommunicate her when she actually does so.
* In Case 6, it's discovered that the malfunctioning of the time machine was intentionally done by a saboteur, without any clear motive as to why.
* Ambassador Lev Romanov's murder in Case 10 is nearly enough for both the US and the USSR to declare war, which is what the killer of the case intended to do in the first place.
* In Case 11, UsefulNotes/CatherineOfAragon was brutally beaten to death with a mace, [[BodyHorror cutting off her own ear and knocking out several of her teeth in the process]].

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* While Julius Caesar's murder in the first case ''Death as Old as Time'' isn't actually graphic and has a rather humorous motive, [[ForWantOfANail it also ends up creating several problems for future events during the BC era]], such as Octavian intending to destroy Egypt instead of conquering it, and causes history to be altered to the point where Ancient Egypt takes over the world.
* Octavian himself deserves a mention due to [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade being incredibly violent]], [[LackOfEmpathy callous]], and [[SmugSnake smug]]. Particularly, stringing along the vestal virgin murderer of Case 3 ''When in Rome'' and convincing her to kill her mother, a political opponent of his, to get her out of her lifestyle, only to excommunicate her when she actually does so.
* In Case 6, ''Summer of Death'', it's discovered that the malfunctioning of the time machine was intentionally done by a saboteur, without any clear motive as to why.
* Ambassador Lev Romanov's murder in Case 10 ''Crime and Punishment'' is nearly enough for both the US and the USSR to declare war, which is what the killer of the case intended to do in the first place.
* In Case 11, ''A Tudor Murder'', UsefulNotes/CatherineOfAragon was brutally beaten to death with a mace, [[BodyHorror cutting off her own ear and knocking out several of her teeth in the process]].



* Case 16 revolves around the murder of Chief Scott, who hadn't made any appearances since Case 1. To make it worse, he was killed because [[HeKnowsTooMuch not only was he a subversive to the regime, but he was aware he was trapped in an altered timeline.]]

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* Case 16 ''Back to the Future'' revolves around the murder of Chief Scott, who hadn't made any appearances since Case 1.the tutorial case. To make it worse, he was killed because [[HeKnowsTooMuch not only was he a subversive to the regime, but he was aware he was trapped in an altered timeline.]]



* Case 17's victim, a Resistance member, was shot in the torso with a ray gun, creating a [[BloodlessCarnage giant bloodless hole]], similar to Case 43 of ''Pacific Bay''. The motive is just as harrowing - his girlfriend killed him to stop him from suicide-bombing the Fifth of July celebrations. Even worse, he had planned on using ''his six-year-old son'' to help him plant the bombs.

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* Case 17's victim, The victim in ''Rebel Without a Pulse'', a Resistance member, was shot in the torso with a ray gun, creating a [[BloodlessCarnage giant bloodless hole]], similar to Case 43 ''Dead Space'' of ''Pacific Bay''. The motive is just as harrowing - his girlfriend killed him to stop him from suicide-bombing the Fifth of July celebrations. Even worse, he had planned on using ''his six-year-old son'' to help him plant the bombs.



* Case 20's victim, the Ptolemian king, has molten gold poured over his head, killing him instantly with fourth-degree burns. The icing on the cake is that the killer is Nefertiti, who killed her father because he wanted to send her back to Egypt even after all she'd done to acquire riches for their family. She also has no remorse for betraying the team, which is probably the reason why it's so easy for her to betray her parents as well.
* Case 21's victim had his throat slit by a razor. The killer's arrest also provides a good amount of ParanoiaFuel: the murder had been a complete accident, which happened when the crew's doctor was just shaving the victim when the boat rocked, causing the razor to cut his throat.
* Case 22 has UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} try to befriend the team, only to bite into an orange and collapse dead from poisoning. To make things worse, Blackbeard had offered ''Jack and the player'' the orange before eating it, unaware that it had been poisoned.

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* Case 20's victim, The victim in ''Fool's Gold'', the Ptolemian king, has molten gold poured over his head, killing him instantly with fourth-degree burns. The icing on the cake is that the killer is Nefertiti, who killed her father because he wanted to send her back to Egypt even after all she'd done to acquire riches for their family. She also has no remorse for betraying the team, which is probably the reason why it's so easy for her to betray her parents as well.
* Case 21's The victim in ''Anchors Aweigh!'' had his throat slit by a razor. The killer's arrest also provides a good amount of ParanoiaFuel: the murder had been a complete accident, which happened when the crew's doctor was just shaving the victim when the boat rocked, causing the razor to cut his throat.
* Case 22 ''A Pirate's Death for Me'' has UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} try to befriend the team, only to bite into an orange and collapse dead from poisoning. To make things worse, Blackbeard had offered ''Jack and the player'' the orange before eating it, unaware that it had been poisoned.



* Case 23 has the team stranded on an island inhabited by previous stowaways, only to find their leader speared to death. The motive behind her murder? [[ImAHumanitarian She intended to feed the overweight killer to the other islanders.]]

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* Case 23 ''Shipwrecked!'' has the team stranded on an island inhabited by previous stowaways, only to find their leader speared to death. The motive behind her murder? [[ImAHumanitarian She intended to feed the overweight killer to the other islanders.]]
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* Case 3's victim deserves a special mention. She was burned with cigarettes and then cut open, her heart cut out, and then her body hung up alongside pig carcasses in a butcher's storehouse. And you're told that ''she was alive when she was being cut open''.

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* Case 3's The victim in ''The Grim Butcher'' deserves a special mention. She was burned with cigarettes and then cut open, her heart cut out, and then her body hung up alongside pig carcasses in a butcher's storehouse. And you're told that ''she was alive when she was being cut open''.



* Case 7 involves a man stripped, beaten, and crucified like Jesus Christ, and left there until he bled to death.
* Case 8's victim was a lovely young dancer named Trixie Velvet, who got a note from a secret admirer asking to meet her after work. As it turned out, it was her fellow bartender, who had a lesbian attraction to her. Trixie, being straight, was confused, and then laughed. The killer snapped and literally beat her so much that her face was unrecognizable.
* Case 9's victim was burned alive. Even worse, he was trying to give up the gangster life for his girlfriend, and the person who offered him a job killed him because he didn't believe he turned over a new leaf.
* Linda Lovara, the local madwoman. [[http://criminal-case-grimsborough.wikia.com/wiki/File:Linda5.png Here's a picture]] of what she gets to be like when she's angry.[[note]]Don't worry, the horns aren't real; they're only for cosmetic purposes.[[/note]]
* Case 12 involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] while alive, his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose. Later it's mentioned that he broke both arms trying to escape due to the extreme pain. It's both [[{{Squick}} sickeningly violent]] and [[NauseaFuel very disturbing]] to witness.
* Case 17's victim was frightening because of the nature of the death. [[MurderByMistake It was an accident]]. The killer, a chef, tried to kill a food critic and killed the victim by mistake.
* Case 20. Oh boy, Case 20. The killer tortured the victim in a creepy basement, ripped his fingers off and used one as a caviar spoon, ate the victim's liver, and then finally killed him in an iron maiden. Even [[TheStoic Judge Hall]] is terrified.
* Case 21's victim is Rachel Priest. She was injected with a serum designed to give a soldier superhuman strength. But since the serum was only designed for men, her skin literally split apart as her bones grew to an abnormal size. Then, she was decapitated after death and thrown into a vat of acid.
* Case 24's victim was taxidermied. Alive.
* Case 26 is full of this. For starters, the victim was killed in a room used for a pagan ritual, and the Necronomicon shows up to play a role in the case. Then there's the Grimsborough Cemetery, its hidden objects, and natural scenery alike, especially ''those evil eyes in the sky''...
* Not only does Case 31's killer kill several dogs in addition to a person, but it's the sweet old lady Margaret Littlewood, who was so helpful to you in several cases. She also poisons your partner Jones. The fact that she does give the antidote to him and saves his life matters so little.
* In Case 32, the victim, Rani, died as a result of a ''colony of ants invading her throat and asphyxiating her'' on a hunt for the sugars in all the alcohol she was forced to drink. It doesn't help that her killer had ''only'' intended to humiliate her; she had no idea the ants were there, and the Rorschach Reaper had hypnotized her beforehand.
* Take a good look at [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130920202354/criminal-case-grimsborough/images/4/4e/Olly%27s_Body2.png Case 33's victim's face]]. Have fun with that humongous SlasherSmile.
* Case 36 involved the victim, who genuinely loved his Amish girlfriend, getting stabbed with a pitchfork several times and left as a scarecrow by her AxCrazy father.

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* Case 7 ''Death by Crucifixion'' involves a man stripped, beaten, and crucified like Jesus Christ, and left there until he bled to death.
* Case 8's victim was a lovely young dancer named Trixie Velvet, who got a note from a secret admirer asking to meet her after work. As it turned out, it was her fellow bartender, who had a lesbian attraction to her. Trixie, being straight, was confused, and then laughed. The killer snapped and literally beat her so much that her face was unrecognizable.
* Case 9's victim was burned alive. Even worse, he was trying to give up
** One of the gangster life for his girlfriend, and the person who offered him a job killed him because he didn't believe he turned over a new leaf.
*
suspects is Linda Lovara, the local madwoman. [[http://criminal-case-grimsborough.wikia.com/wiki/File:Linda5.png Here's a picture]] of what she gets to be like when she's angry.[[note]]Don't worry, the horns aren't real; they're only for cosmetic purposes.[[/note]]
* Case 12 The victim in ''Beautiful No More'' was a lovely young dancer named Trixie Velvet, who got a note from a secret admirer asking to meet her after work. As it turned out, it was her fellow bartender, who had a lesbian attraction to her. Trixie, being straight, was confused, and then laughed. The killer snapped and literally beat her so much that her face was unrecognizable.
* The victim in ''Burned to the Bone'' was burned alive. Even worse, he was trying to give up the gangster life for his girlfriend, and the person who offered him a job killed him because he didn't believe he turned over a new leaf.
* ''Blood on the Trading Floor''
involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] while alive, his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose. Later it's mentioned that he broke both arms trying to escape due to the extreme pain. It's both [[{{Squick}} sickeningly violent]] and [[NauseaFuel very disturbing]] to witness.
* Case 17's How the victim in ''The Last Supper'' was killed is frightening because of the nature of the death. [[MurderByMistake It was an accident]]. The killer, a chef, tried to kill a food critic and killed the victim by mistake.
* Case 20. Oh boy, Case 20.''A Deadly Game''. The killer tortured the victim in a creepy basement, ripped his fingers off and used one as a caviar spoon, ate the victim's liver, and then finally killed him in an iron maiden. Even [[TheStoic Judge Hall]] is terrified.
* Case 21's The victim in ''The Secret Experiments'' is Rachel Priest. She was injected with a serum designed to give a soldier superhuman strength. But since the serum was only designed for men, her skin literally split apart as her bones grew to an abnormal size. Then, she was decapitated after death and thrown into a vat of acid.
* Case 24's The victim in ''Anatomy of a Murder'' was taxidermied. Alive.
* Case 26 ''The Summoning'' is full of this. For starters, the victim was killed in a room used for a pagan ritual, and the Necronomicon shows up to play a role in the case. Then there's the Grimsborough Cemetery, its hidden objects, and natural scenery alike, especially ''those evil eyes in the sky''...
* Not only does Case 31's the killer in ''Dog Eat Dog'' kill several dogs in addition to a person, but it's the sweet old lady Margaret Littlewood, who was so helpful to you in several cases. She also poisons your partner Jones. The fact that she does give the antidote to him and saves his life matters so little.
* In Case 32, ''Murder on Campus'', the victim, Rani, died as a result of a ''colony of ants invading her throat and asphyxiating her'' on a hunt for the sugars in all the alcohol she was forced to drink. It doesn't help that her killer had ''only'' intended to humiliate her; she had no idea the ants were there, and the Rorschach Reaper had hypnotized her beforehand.
* Take a good look at [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130920202354/criminal-case-grimsborough/images/4/4e/Olly%27s_Body2.png Case 33's the victim's face]].face]] in ''Killing Me Softly''. Have fun with that humongous SlasherSmile.
* Case 36 ''The Devil's Playground'' involved the victim, who genuinely loved his Amish girlfriend, getting stabbed with a pitchfork several times and left as a scarecrow by her AxCrazy father.



* Case 48's case involves the death of Abigail Price. Not only is her own mother's reaction chillingly cold, but she was murdered by her best friend for not helping the girl cheat her way into college, using a hair removal laser. The hole burned through her skin was so deep that her ribcage was exposed.
* Case 51's [[TheReveal reveal.]] Your chief, Samuel King, is the killer. And, instead of telling you what happened, he blows his brains out in front of you and Jones. Jones is so traumatized he [[ExhaustedEyeBags can't sleep]] and [[BeardOfSorrow grows some stubble]] afterward.
* Case 52 has Stuart Huckabee get murdered by his own sister, who slit his throat while alive, then pulled out his tongue -- to Jones's disgust.

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* Case 48's case ''Good Girls Don't Die'' involves the death of Abigail Price. Not only is her own mother's reaction chillingly cold, but she was murdered by her best friend for not helping the girl cheat her way into college, using a hair removal laser. The hole burned through her skin was so deep that her ribcage was exposed.
* Case 51's [[TheReveal reveal.]] TheReveal in ''It All Ends Here''. Your chief, Samuel King, is the killer. And, instead of telling you what happened, he blows his brains out in front of you and Jones. Jones is so traumatized he [[ExhaustedEyeBags can't sleep]] and [[BeardOfSorrow grows some stubble]] afterward.
* Case 52 ''A Brave New World'' has Stuart Huckabee get murdered by his own sister, who slit his throat while alive, then pulled out his tongue -- to Jones's disgust.



* Case 10 of Pacific Bay is pretty terrifying. The victim's [[EyeScream eyes were taken out, and then an incredibly drunk Harvey Fitchner finds them. It does not end well.]]

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* Case 10 of Pacific Bay ''Smoke and Mirrors'' is pretty terrifying. The victim's [[EyeScream eyes were taken out, and then an incredibly drunk Harvey Fitchner finds them. It does not end well.]]



** Case 11's victim had her heart ripped out and her body was hung by a racist Russian politician, who was angered that the victim had secretly married her brother.
** Case 13's victim was impaled on a decoration and had his lungs ripped out, at his daughter's wedding, no less.
** Case 14's victim had his lungs burst with helium, his spine removed, and was attached to a St. Patrick's Day float.
** Case 15's victim had her coffee spiked with a lethal dose of blood thinners, causing her to bleed out from her eyes and mouth. The kicker is that the victim is her son's nanny, who had come to resent the victim's neglect of her son, to the point of refusing to vaccinate him.
** Case 16's victim was strapped to a clock, which suffocated him as the clock moved forward in time. Bonus points go to the killer, Fredo Mancini, attempting to suicide-bomb the courtroom during his trial, [[BigDamnHeroes which would have killed everyone had Hannah not intervened.]]
** Case 17's victim has Nikolai Kamarov partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. It revealed that his killer, [[BastardBastard his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and planned to do the same to his mother, and had local doctor Mark McKenzie steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into his own body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds.]] Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.
* Jazz Town's opening case involved the victim dismembered and hung on tram lines as musical notes, mocking his career as a musician.
* Though unrelated to his death, the victim of case 19 is discovered to have been seeing a therapist prior to his death. [[PsychoPsychologist Said therapist so thoroughly despised him that she intentionally prescribed him high dosage medication, in hopes that the medicine's side effects would trigger suicidal urges and cause the man to kill himself.]]
* The victim of Case 20 was killed with a live cannonball during a reenactment. The damage to his body was so intense that he needed to be stitched back together. According to the doctor who performed his autopsy, this took ''three hours.''
* Case 22 has the victim eaten alive by rats.

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** Case 11's ''Heartless'': The victim had her heart ripped out and her body was hung by a racist Russian politician, who was angered that the victim had secretly married her brother.
** Case 13's ''Eastern Promises'': The victim was impaled on a decoration and had his lungs ripped out, at his daughter's wedding, no less.
** Case 14's ''Spineless'': The victim had his lungs burst with helium, his spine removed, and was attached to a St. Patrick's Day float.
** Case 15's ''Murder-Go-Round'': The victim had her coffee spiked with a lethal dose of blood thinners, causing her to bleed out from her eyes and mouth. The kicker is that the victim is her son's nanny, who had come to resent the victim's neglect of her son, to the point of refusing to vaccinate him.
** Case 16's ''Killing Time'': The victim was strapped to a clock, which suffocated him as the clock moved forward in time. Bonus points go to the killer, Fredo Mancini, attempting to suicide-bomb the courtroom during his trial, [[BigDamnHeroes which would have killed everyone had Hannah not intervened.]]
** Case 17's victim has ''Under the Skin'': Nikolai Kamarov was partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. It revealed that his killer, [[BastardBastard his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and planned to do the same to his mother, and had local doctor Mark McKenzie steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into his own body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds.]] Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.
* Jazz Town's opening case ''After the Storm'' involved the victim dismembered and hung on tram lines as musical notes, mocking his career as a musician.
* Though unrelated to his death, the victim of case 19 ''Cloudy with a Chance of Murder'' is discovered to have been seeing a therapist prior to his death. [[PsychoPsychologist Said therapist so thoroughly despised him that she intentionally prescribed him high dosage medication, in hopes that the medicine's side effects would trigger suicidal urges and cause the man to kill himself.]]
* The victim of Case 20 ''Open Wounds'' was killed with a live cannonball during a reenactment. The damage to his body was so intense that he needed to be stitched back together. According to the doctor who performed his autopsy, this took ''three hours.''
* Case 22 ''Of Rats and Men'' has the victim eaten alive by rats.



* Case 28 involves a plane crash, but what's truly horrific is that the pilot is not only roasted alive but [[ImAHumanitarian eaten afterward]]. The cherry on top is that it's [[PsychoExGirlfriend Bobby Prince, Amy's former boyfriend.]]
** In the last case of Pacific Bay, Bobby is revealed to have become [[{{Yandere}} completely obsessed with Amy, to the point where he kills Frank because he's told that he's the only thing standing in his way. Amy is horrified at this, and when he hears that Amy is with Russell, he can't bear it and tries to kill her, forcing Amy to shoot him in self-defense.]]

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* Case 28 ''The Hunger Planes'' involves a plane crash, but what's truly horrific is that the pilot is not only roasted alive but [[ImAHumanitarian eaten afterward]]. The cherry on top is that it's [[PsychoExGirlfriend Bobby Prince, Amy's former boyfriend.]]
** In the last case of Pacific Bay, ''The Final Countdown'', Bobby is revealed to have become [[{{Yandere}} completely obsessed with Amy, to the point where he kills Frank because he's told that he's the only thing standing in his way. Amy is horrified at this, and when he hears that Amy is with Russell, he can't bear it and tries to kill her, forcing Amy to shoot him in self-defense.]]



* Case 32 involves a teenaged movie star getting slammed into a mirror and slashed to death. And the killer is her own mother, jealous of her daughter's success and her own [[WhiteDwarfStarlet fading memory.]]
* Case 33's victim is drawn and quartered alive: his limbs were tied to four horses that ran in opposite directions.
* Case 35's victim was melted in such strong acid that the only thing left of his abdomen was his spine.
* Case 40's victim was tied up, stabbed, and had his heart removed. The killer wanted to use the victim as a sacrifice to summon aliens, from which the killer believed he was a descendant of.
* Case 42's victim was decapitated and his head is found on a post. It's not the scariest death, but the true meaning behind it is pretty frightening. A xenophobic border control officer killed him because the victim lied to him constantly about being a citizen to smuggle drugs. He used his severed head as a warning to other immigrants to stay away from Rhine Canyon.
* Case 45's victim was autopsied alive. Although, since the person inside was actually an alien, it's easier to swallow.
* Case 47's victim was crushed into a human cube.
* Case 48's victim has arguably the most gruesome death of not only anyone else in Innovation Valley, but in all of Pacific Bay. She is sliced up into pieces with a saw and then blended in three blenders, leaving only a hand, a foot, and her head, with a horrifying expression on her face. Not only is this worthy of both NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel, but her killer is none other than her own seemingly devoted husband who fell in love with her clone.
* Case 49's victim is pushed into a tank of jellyfish and stung to death. The killer turns out to be her own mother, who was jealous of her daughter's beauty. When her daughter didn't share her immortality studies with her, the mother killed her as punishment, not knowing that the victim had a terminal disease that caused her to study it in the first place.
* Case 50's victim is fairly standard fare, but the killer, Aphro-Dyte (who is a robot), deserves special mention. She tried to inject all humans with nanobots so they would worship robots as their creator. When she's caught, she pulls a TakingYouWithMe and sets the robots of Innovation Valley loose.
* Case 56 has almost all of the suspects as your partners in the police department: Frank, Hannah, Russell, and Roxie. Roxie gets the added horror of having to autopsy the killer of her boyfriend. To make matters worse, Frank, your partner, is the killer, and Andrea is held hostage by Karen in order to help him escape.
* Case 57 has a disturbing death of a man fallen into radioactive waste causing massive organ failure, but the really terrifying thing is when Yann goes over a blood sample from Amy and the player and tells them that they will shortly die unless they leave the area. But they can't leave.
* Case 58 has Karen Knight killed by scorpions, and then her eyes were gouged out.

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* Case 32 ''Once Upon a Crime'' involves a teenaged movie star getting slammed into a mirror and slashed to death. And the killer is her own mother, jealous of her daughter's success and her own [[WhiteDwarfStarlet fading memory.]]
* Case 33's The victim in ''Wild Wild Death'' is drawn and quartered alive: his limbs were tied to four horses that ran in opposite directions.
* Case 35's The victim in ''Star Crime'' was melted in such strong acid that the only thing left of his abdomen was his spine.
* Case 40's The victim in ''Temple of Doom'' was tied up, stabbed, and had his heart removed. The killer wanted to use the victim as a sacrifice to summon aliens, from which the killer believed he was a descendant of.
* Case 42's The victim in ''Crystal Death'' was decapitated and his head is found on a post. It's not the scariest death, but the true meaning behind it is pretty frightening. A xenophobic border control officer killed him because the victim lied to him constantly about being a citizen to smuggle drugs. He used his severed head as a warning to other immigrants to stay away from Rhine Canyon.
* Case 45's The victim in ''No Place Like Home'' was autopsied alive. Although, since the person inside was actually an alien, it's easier to swallow.
* Case 47's The victim in ''Uncivil Rights'' was crushed into a human cube.
* Case 48's The victim in ''Blood in the Blender'' has arguably the most gruesome death of not only anyone else in Innovation Valley, but in all of Pacific Bay. She is sliced up into pieces with a saw and then blended in three blenders, leaving only a hand, a foot, and her head, with a horrifying expression on her face. Not only is this worthy of both NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel, but her killer is none other than her own seemingly devoted husband who fell in love with her clone.
* Case 49's The victim in ''Immortal Sin'' is pushed into a tank of jellyfish and stung to death. The killer turns out to be her own mother, who was jealous of her daughter's beauty. When her daughter didn't share her immortality studies with her, the mother killed her as punishment, not knowing that the victim had a terminal disease that caused her to study it in the first place.
* Case 50's The victim in ''Programmed to Kill'' is fairly standard fare, but the killer, Aphro-Dyte (who is a robot), deserves special mention. She tried to inject all humans with nanobots so they would worship robots as their creator. When she's caught, she pulls a TakingYouWithMe and sets the robots of Innovation Valley loose.
* Case 56 ''A Killer Among Us'' has almost all of the suspects as your partners in the police department: Frank, Hannah, Russell, and Roxie. Roxie gets the added horror of having to autopsy the killer of her boyfriend. To make matters worse, Frank, your partner, is the killer, and Andrea is held hostage by Karen in order to help him escape.
* Case 57 ''Into the Wastes'' has a disturbing death of a man fallen into radioactive waste causing massive organ failure, but the really terrifying thing is when Yann goes over a blood sample from Amy and the player and tells them that they will shortly die unless they leave the area. But they can't leave.
* Case 58 ''The Sting of Death'' has Karen Knight killed by scorpions, and then her eyes were gouged out.



* The victim of case 6 was slowly roasted alive in a brazen bull, while nobody could hear her scream due to the device transforming the screams into the sound of an angry bull. And, to top it all off, the team was rushing to stop the bombs spread across various monuments in Europe by the Promethean Cult.
* In case 10, the victim was mummified and had his brain pulled out with an ancient hook. While he was ''still alive''.
* While case 11's murder wasn't as bad as the ones listed above, the Additional Investigation has Ambassador Stern's little son get kidnapped. Not only is Stern crying tears of fright the entire time, but it's discovered that everything that happened from Chief Ripley's 'death' was a trap created by the Sword for the player. And it ends with the team finding out that Stern's son was taken from Dubai to Iraq...
* In Case 12, the player and Carmen are forced to watch two of their teammates get badly poisoned, and another one was taken hostage. Then they themselves are nearly killed by the criminal they'd finally cornered. If it hadn't been for Jonah Karam, this case would've ended ''badly''.
* Case 19 has the victim be killed by liquid morphine, which the killer slipped into her water bottle without her noticing. The nature of the death is frightening and can cause some ParanoiaFuel.
* Case 21 has a plague sweeping across the country where the case is taking place. Angela and Lars are pushing themselves to the brink of their bodies' limits and still no progress.

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* The victim of case 6 ''The Impossible Dream'' was slowly roasted alive in a brazen bull, while nobody could hear her scream due to the device transforming the screams into the sound of an angry bull. And, to top it all off, the team was rushing to stop the bombs spread across various monuments in Europe by the Promethean Cult.
* In case 10, ''I Spy a Mummy'', the victim was mummified and had his brain pulled out with an ancient hook. While he was ''still alive''.
* While case 11's the murder in ''The Parting Shot'' wasn't as bad as the ones listed above, the Additional Investigation has Ambassador Stern's little son get kidnapped. Not only is Stern crying tears of fright the entire time, but it's discovered that everything that happened from Chief Ripley's 'death' was a trap created by the Sword for the player. And it ends with the team finding out that Stern's son was taken from Dubai to Iraq...
* In Case 12, ''Die by the Sword'', the player and Carmen are forced to watch two of their teammates get badly poisoned, and another one was taken hostage. Then they themselves are nearly killed by the criminal they'd finally cornered. If it hadn't been for Jonah Karam, this case would've ended ''badly''.
* Case 19 ''Bad Medicine'' has the victim be killed by liquid morphine, which the killer slipped into her water bottle without her noticing. The nature of the death is frightening and can cause some ParanoiaFuel.
* Case 21 ''Plagued by Death'' has a plague sweeping across the country where the case is taking place. Angela and Lars are pushing themselves to the brink of their bodies' limits and still no progress.



* Case 23's victim died of blood loss after his arm was chopped off with an ax. In the end, it's revealed that he had forced his adopted daughter to marry him, and the man who loved her had killed him to set her free.
* Case 24 ''really'' takes the cake: One of the nicest characters in the series is gutted and his bones broken, then his skin used to make a ritual drum. Unlike most victims, he did nothing to deserve this, and the killer, Warren Goodfellow, finally drops his kind facade and reveals himself to be a depraved individual who was also behind South Asia's SOMBRA activities as well as framing the equally innocent Om Padmasana for his actions.
* The whole of East Asia seems to be going for this since the focus of the region is on SOMBRA's link to disappearing children as well as the search for the man behind Warren Goodfellow. The first two cases don't hold back on the NightmareFuel: Case 25 begins with the grisly murder of a teenage boy, and throughout the investigation, it's discovered that the children in the area had suddenly begun acting mercilessly cruel, with one of them having committed the murder because [[MadnessMantra "The weak die. It's nature's way."]] Case 26's AI reveals that the victim discovered that there was a mass disappearance of children all over East Asia, many of them being orphans. It didn't help that in both cases, Angela and Lars' daughters wandered off, causing their parents to freak out until they were found safe.
* Case 30 is frightening because it establishes that SOMBRA definitely WouldHurtAChild to accomplish their plans. The killer gathered up children to force them to partake in a Hunger Games-style slaughter and killed one when he refused to compete. The one behind all of this turns out to be a seemingly sweet old lady that the Bureau kept bumping into throughout the region, similar to Margaret Littlewood's case in Grimsborough.

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* Case 23's The victim in ''Peace and Dead Quiet'' died of blood loss after his arm was chopped off with an ax. In the end, it's revealed that he had forced his adopted daughter to marry him, and the man who loved her had killed him to set her free.
* Case 24 ''Insides Out'' ''really'' takes the cake: One of the nicest characters in the series is gutted and his bones broken, then his skin used to make a ritual drum. Unlike most victims, he did nothing to deserve this, and the killer, Warren Goodfellow, finally drops his kind facade and reveals himself to be a depraved individual who was also behind South Asia's SOMBRA activities as well as framing the equally innocent Om Padmasana for his actions.
* The whole of East Asia seems to be going for this since the focus of the region is on SOMBRA's link to disappearing children as well as the search for the man behind Warren Goodfellow. The first two cases don't hold back on the NightmareFuel: Case 25 ''The Killer in the Rice'' begins with the grisly murder of a teenage boy, and throughout the investigation, it's discovered that the children in the area had suddenly begun acting mercilessly cruel, with one of them having committed the murder because [[MadnessMantra "The weak die. It's nature's way."]] Case 26's The AI of ''Dead in the Water'' reveals that the victim discovered that there was a mass disappearance of children all over East Asia, many of them being orphans. It didn't help that in both cases, Angela and Lars' daughters wandered off, causing their parents to freak out until they were found safe.
* Case 30 ''The Murder Games'' is frightening because it establishes that SOMBRA definitely WouldHurtAChild to accomplish their plans. The killer gathered up children to force them to partake in a Hunger Games-style slaughter and killed one when he refused to compete. The one behind all of this turns out to be a seemingly sweet old lady that the Bureau kept bumping into throughout the region, similar to Margaret Littlewood's case in Grimsborough.



* When it's time to arrest the criminal of Case 32, Elliot asks if he can do the honors, and is kidnapped as a result. The entire team is horrified.

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* When it's time to arrest the criminal of Case 32, ''A Stab in the Dark'', Elliot asks if he can do the honors, and is kidnapped as a result. The entire team is horrified.



* Case 36 has Jack and the player investigating the case, when suddenly, tremors start coming out of nowhere. Then, Elliot shows up and informs them that a volcano's about to erupt at any minute, and the rest of the case is spent trying to gather up all the evidence while the tremors and eruptions grow stronger.
* In Case 41, Jonah is ''not'' happy when his half-sister, Lily, is flagged as a murder suspect. Marina is in a panic when she asks for the player's help to calm him down, and when Jonah actually shows up, he gives off a frightening DeathGlare before storming off to possibly maim someone to prove Lily's innocence.
* Case 42 is similar to "A Killer Among Us" from Pacific Bay, where all the suspects are main members of the Bureau. Angela, who is normally calm, is downright hostile to the player in this case, and she's also the SOMBRA mole who had been with them the entire time. No one had expected it to be her, since she was one of the more sane characters with a happy family life.

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* Case 36 ''Out of the Blue'' has Jack and the player investigating the case, when suddenly, tremors start coming out of nowhere. Then, Elliot shows up and informs them that a volcano's about to erupt at any minute, and the rest of the case is spent trying to gather up all the evidence while the tremors and eruptions grow stronger.
* In Case 41, ''Diamond in the Rough'', Jonah is ''not'' happy when his half-sister, Lily, is flagged as a murder suspect. Marina is in a panic when she asks for the player's help to calm him down, and when Jonah actually shows up, he gives off a frightening DeathGlare before storming off to possibly maim someone to prove Lily's innocence.
* Case 42 ''In Plain Sight'' is similar to "A ''A Killer Among Us" Us'' from Pacific Bay, where all the suspects are main members of the Bureau. Angela, who is normally calm, is downright hostile to the player in this case, and she's also the SOMBRA mole who had been with them the entire time. No one had expected it to be her, since she was one of the more sane characters with a happy family life.



* Case 43 is ''full'' of this. The victim's gruesome death was caused by someone who attacked her in rage, and the suspects are all somewhat unhinged thanks to being isolated for many months in a lab in Antarctica. One of the suspects had suggested ''electroshock therapy'' on the victim despite her normal mental state, and a conspiracy theorist insists that a sabertooth tiger came back from the dead and killed her. The actual killer had felt alone and thought he and the victim were meant to be, and angrily killed her when she rejected him.
* Case 44 has Lars returning from his leave, but he is still in a broken state and Jack has to restrain him. When he first appears he makes a ''very'' dark joke about Angela's treachery, then at the end of Chapter 2, he shows up out of nowhere, threatening to slit his own throat.
* Case 54 has the player going to find the downed SOMBRA satellite, only to find spy Jean Connerie dead from countless stab wounds. Right after that, Asal appears in the same state as Jean and frantically begs the player to help her before collapsing from her injuries. To top it all off, the killer turns out to be Anya Ivanova, a former MGB agent who had been amiable towards the Bureau when they last met and even helped them. She reveals that she had joined SOMBRA because she thinks they're the only ones who appreciate her and coldly taunts her former allies at the Bureau. This case clearly shows that [[ParanoiaFuel even the so-called good guys can turn on you when you least expect it.]]

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* Case 43 ''Ice Rage'' is ''full'' of this. The victim's gruesome death was caused by someone who attacked her in rage, and the suspects are all somewhat unhinged thanks to being isolated for many months in a lab in Antarctica. One of the suspects had suggested ''electroshock therapy'' on the victim despite her normal mental state, and a conspiracy theorist insists that a sabertooth tiger came back from the dead and killed her. The actual killer had felt alone and thought he and the victim were meant to be, and angrily killed her when she rejected him.
* Case 44 ''Murder, He Wrote'' has Lars returning from his leave, but he is still in a broken state and Jack has to restrain him. When he first appears he makes a ''very'' dark joke about Angela's treachery, then at the end of Chapter 2, he shows up out of nowhere, threatening to slit his own throat.
* Case 54 ''Operation Spyfall'' has the player going to find the downed SOMBRA satellite, only to find spy Jean Connerie dead from countless stab wounds. Right after that, Asal appears in the same state as Jean and frantically begs the player to help her before collapsing from her injuries. To top it all off, the killer turns out to be Anya Ivanova, a former MGB agent who had been amiable towards the Bureau when they last met and even helped them. She reveals that she had joined SOMBRA because she thinks they're the only ones who appreciate her and coldly taunts her former allies at the Bureau. This case clearly shows that [[ParanoiaFuel even the so-called good guys can turn on you when you least expect it.]]



* Case 55 has the Prime Minister of Canada brutally murdered and when El Rey, who is revealed to be Hector Montoya, is arrested, [[BodyHorror we see his removed wig revealing horrid burns underneath.]]

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* Case 55 ''Down to the Wire'' has the Prime Minister of Canada brutally murdered and when El Rey, who is revealed to be Hector Montoya, is arrested, [[BodyHorror we see his removed wig revealing horrid burns underneath.]]



* In case 20, a pimp was brutally stabbed to death in the eyes, causing an unsettling setting in the brothel.
* In case 31, a taxi driver was disemboweled and hung up like a pig in the slaughterhouse.
* In case 33, Commissioner Baldwin was smashed in the skull with an adze and got his tongue cut out post-mortem.
* In case 35, a teenage plumber the player had previously met is decapitated. Worse, the killer is her friend who had taken to carrying a machete due to the increasing violence, and when she took him by surprise he swung instinctively, only seeing who it was too late.
* In case 41, the victim dies after ingesting sulfuric acid his sundae was laced with. When his body is collected, there is a gaping hole in his throat.
* In case 42, Deputy Mayor Hwang was strangled and got her heart ripped out post-mortem.
* Case 51 has Archie Rochester sawed in half and left on the scales of justice.
* Justin Lawson's development from a genuinely kind-hearted and righteous person into a complete despot over the course of Cases 54 and 55 is seriously unnerving.

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* In case 20, ''Eyes Wide Shut'', a pimp was brutally stabbed to death in the eyes, causing an unsettling setting in the brothel.
* In case 31, ''Bridge Over Troubled Water'', a taxi driver was disemboweled and hung up like a pig in the slaughterhouse.
* In case 33, ''Hold Your Tongue'', Commissioner Baldwin was smashed in the skull with an adze and got his tongue cut out post-mortem.
* In case 35, ''Burning Bridges'', a teenage plumber the player had previously met is decapitated. Worse, the killer is her friend who had taken to carrying a machete due to the increasing violence, and when she took him by surprise he swung instinctively, only seeing who it was too late.
* In case 41, ''Talk of the Town'', the victim dies after ingesting sulfuric acid his sundae was laced with. When his body is collected, there is a gaping hole in his throat.
* In case 42, ''The Heart of the Matter'', Deputy Mayor Hwang was strangled and got her heart ripped out post-mortem.
* Case 51 ''Tipping the Scales'' has Archie Rochester sawed in half and left on the scales of justice.
* Justin Lawson's development from a genuinely kind-hearted and righteous person into a complete despot over the course of Cases 54 ''Arrow of Injustice'' and 55 ''The New Truth!'' is seriously unnerving.unnerving. In the latter case, when presiding over the killer's trial, he sentences her to death by beheading despite the death penalty having been abolished in Concordia for fifty hears.



* Case 1 has our old friend Nathan tied up and covered in snake bites. To top it all off, he was murdered for refusing to sacrifice his ethical code so that the killer's son wouldn't be arrested, ten years before the case.
* In Case 2, the victim is killed by multiple shots from a nail gun. The killer's motive for this gruesome murder turns out to be extremely petty as well, [[DisproportionateRetribution being that the victim (while drunk) accidentally threw up on her flower bushes, ruining her chances at winning a gardening contest.]]
* Case 5's victim, who was only a teenager, had her face burnt with sulfuric acid and then strangled with a computer cable.

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* Case 1 ''Snake in the Grass'' has our old friend Nathan tied up and covered in snake bites. To top it all off, he was murdered for refusing to sacrifice his ethical code so that the killer's son wouldn't be arrested, ten years before the case.
* In Case 2, ''Hell is Other People'', the victim is killed by multiple shots from a nail gun. The killer's motive for this gruesome murder turns out to be extremely petty as well, [[DisproportionateRetribution being that the victim (while drunk) accidentally threw up on her flower bushes, ruining her chances at winning a gardening contest.]]
* Case 5's victim, The victim in ''Too Cruel for School'', who was only a teenager, had her face burnt with sulfuric acid and then strangled with a computer cable.cable. And the killer is Coach Kirk, who murdered her to stop her from telling people he was perving on his students in the shower.



* Case 8 deals with the game's only cold case. The victim, a lawyer, has been dead for 4 years, and her body has rotted considerably. However, a real nightmare fuel no less. Her killer turns out to be her socialite best friend, who murdered her because she was about to expose her as the daughter of a drug baron.

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* Case 8 ''Stonewalled'' deals with the game's only cold case. The victim, a lawyer, has been dead for 4 years, and her body has rotted considerably. However, a real nightmare fuel no less. Her killer turns out to be her socialite best friend, who murdered her because she was about to expose her as the daughter of a drug baron.
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* Case 20's victim, the Ptolemian king, has molten gold poured over his head, killing him instantly with fourth-degree burns. The icing on the cake is that the killer is Nefertiti, who killed her father because he wanted to send her back to Egypt even after all she'd done to acquire riches for their family, and planned on doing the same with her mother. She also has no remorse for betraying the team, which is probably the reason why it's so easy for her to betray her parents as well.

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* Case 20's victim, the Ptolemian king, has molten gold poured over his head, killing him instantly with fourth-degree burns. The icing on the cake is that the killer is Nefertiti, who killed her father because he wanted to send her back to Egypt even after all she'd done to acquire riches for their family, and planned on doing the same with her mother.family. She also has no remorse for betraying the team, which is probably the reason why it's so easy for her to betray her parents as well.
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* Case 17's victim, a Resistance member, was shot in the torso with a ray gun, creating a [[BloodlessCarnage giant bloodless hole]], similar to Case 35 of ''Pacific Bay''. The motive is just as harrowing - his girlfriend killed him to stop him from suicide-bombing the Fifth of July celebrations. Even worse, he had planned on using ''his six-year-old son'' to help him plant the bombs.

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* Case 17's victim, a Resistance member, was shot in the torso with a ray gun, creating a [[BloodlessCarnage giant bloodless hole]], similar to Case 35 43 of ''Pacific Bay''. The motive is just as harrowing - his girlfriend killed him to stop him from suicide-bombing the Fifth of July celebrations. Even worse, he had planned on using ''his six-year-old son'' to help him plant the bombs.
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* The victim of Case 21 was killed with a live cannonball during a reenactment. The damage to his body was so intense that he needed to be stitched back together. According to the doctor who performed his autopsy, this took ''three hours.''

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* Though related to his death, the victim of case 19 is discovered to have been seeing a therapist prior to his death. [[PsychoPsychologist Said therapist so thoroughly despised him that she intentionally prescribed him high dosage medication, in hopes that the medicine's side effects would trigger suicidal urges and cause the man to kill himself.]]

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* Though related unrelated to his death, the victim of case 19 is discovered to have been seeing a therapist prior to his death. [[PsychoPsychologist Said therapist so thoroughly despised him that she intentionally prescribed him high dosage medication, in hopes that the medicine's side effects would trigger suicidal urges and cause the man to kill himself.]]]]
* The victim of Case 21 was killed with a live cannonball during a reenactment. The damage to his body was so intense that he needed to be stitched back together. According to the doctor who performed his autopsy, this took ''three hours.''
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* Though related to his death, the victim of case 19 is discovered to have been seeing a therapist prior to his death. [[PsychoPsychologist Said therapist so thoroughly despised him that she intentionally prescribed him high dosage medication, in hopes that the medicine's side effects would trigger suicidal urges and cause the man to kill himself.]]
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* The penultimate episode has a bit of modern-day AdultFear, with a deepfake being used to discredit an innocent man by publicly posting what looks like him participating in an affair.

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** Case 48 is this and a TearJerker; The car bomb in the previous case is revealed to have killed the young rookie cop, Mia Loukas. And to make it worse, [[AccidentalMurder Mia wasn't the intended victim]]; it was ''[[TheHeroDies you]]''.

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** Case 48 is this and a TearJerker; The car bomb in the previous case is revealed to have killed the young rookie cop, Mia Loukas. And to make it worse, [[AccidentalMurder [[MurderByMistake Mia wasn't the intended victim]]; it was ''[[TheHeroDies you]]''.
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* While case 11's murder wasn't as bad as the ones listed above, the Additional Investigation plays on AdultFear by having Ambassador Stern's little son get kidnapped. Not only is Stern crying tears of fright the entire time, but it's discovered that everything that happened from Chief Ripley's 'death' was a trap created by the Sword for the player. And it ends with the team finding out that Stern's son was taken from Dubai to Iraq...
* Case 12 has even more AdultFear, as the player and Carmen are forced to watch two of their teammates get badly poisoned, and another one was taken hostage. Then they themselves are nearly killed by the criminal they'd finally cornered. If it hadn't been for Jonah Karam, this case would've ended ''badly''.

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* While case 11's murder wasn't as bad as the ones listed above, the Additional Investigation plays on AdultFear by having has Ambassador Stern's little son get kidnapped. Not only is Stern crying tears of fright the entire time, but it's discovered that everything that happened from Chief Ripley's 'death' was a trap created by the Sword for the player. And it ends with the team finding out that Stern's son was taken from Dubai to Iraq...
* In Case 12 has even more AdultFear, as 12, the player and Carmen are forced to watch two of their teammates get badly poisoned, and another one was taken hostage. Then they themselves are nearly killed by the criminal they'd finally cornered. If it hadn't been for Jonah Karam, this case would've ended ''badly''.

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** Case 17's victim has Nikolai Kamarov partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. Its revealed that his killer, [[BastardBastard his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and planned to do the same to his mother, and had local doctor Mark McKenzie steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into the his own body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds.]] Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.
* Jazz City's opening case involved the victim dismembered and hung on tram lines as musical notes, mocking his career as a musician.

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** Case 17's victim has Nikolai Kamarov partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. Its It revealed that his killer, [[BastardBastard his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and planned to do the same to his mother, and had local doctor Mark McKenzie steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into the his own body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds.]] Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.
* Jazz City's Town's opening case involved the victim dismembered and hung on tram lines as musical notes, mocking his career as a musician.
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* Case 12 involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] while alive, his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose, it's both [[{{Squick}} sickeningly violent]] and [[NauseaFuel very disturbing]] to witness.
* Case 17's victim was frightening because of the nature of the death. It was an accident. The killer, a chef, tried to kill a food critic and killed the victim by mistake.

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* Case 12 involves the victim, Samuel Rye, being butchered with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter samurai sword]] and [[GuttedLikeAFish disemboweled]] while alive, his arms tied to sides in a crucifix-like pose, pose. Later it's mentioned that he broke both arms trying to escape due to the extreme pain. It's both [[{{Squick}} sickeningly violent]] and [[NauseaFuel very disturbing]] to witness.
* Case 17's victim was frightening because of the nature of the death. [[MurderByMistake It was an accident.accident]]. The killer, a chef, tried to kill a food critic and killed the victim by mistake.



** Case 17's victim has Nikolai Kamarov partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. Its revealed that his killer, [[BastardBastard his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and had local doctor Mark McKenzie, steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into the killer's body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds.]] Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.

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** Case 17's victim has Nikolai Kamarov partially skinned alive and attached to a heritage parade float. Its revealed that his killer, [[BastardBastard his and Sue Xiong's illegitimate son, had skinned him and planned to do the same to his mother, and had local doctor Mark McKenzie, McKenzie steal the missing body parts from above and transplant them into the killer's his own body, as he had grown sick of the Russo-Chinese feuds.]] Even the humorous Judge Dante is disturbed.
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** The victim, Theresa Rosenthal, was killed in a pretty horrific way: she was drugged with [[TruthSerums a truth serum]] which caused her to experience SensoryOverload, then the "killer" inflicted a MindRape so distressful on her that [[MurderBySuicide she was forced ''to shoot herself'' to stop the pain]]. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon]], [[EveryoneHasStandards is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out]].

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** The victim, Theresa Rosenthal, was killed in a pretty horrific way: she was drugged with [[TruthSerums a truth serum]] which caused her to experience SensoryOverload, then the "killer" [[MurderBySuicide "killer"]] inflicted a MindRape so distressful on her that [[MurderBySuicide she was forced ''to shoot ''shoot herself'' just to stop escape from the pain]].pain. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon]], [[EveryoneHasStandards is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out]].
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** The victim of the case and the previous case's killer, Theresa Rosenthal, was drugged with a truth serum that [[MurderBySuicide caused her to shoot herself]]. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon]], [[EveryoneHasStandards is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out]].

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** The victim of the case and the previous case's killer, victim, Theresa Rosenthal, was killed in a pretty horrific way: she was drugged with [[TruthSerums a truth serum serum]] which caused her to experience SensoryOverload, then the "killer" inflicted a MindRape so distressful on her that [[MurderBySuicide caused her to she was forced ''to shoot herself]].herself'' to stop the pain]]. Especially shocking is that the killer turns out to be Reggie Pratt, who reveals himself as the demon that had tortured Gwen's mind and that the demons have found the final key. Even [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Arthur Darkwood, who is himself a demon]], [[EveryoneHasStandards is absolutely horrified at the way Theresa went out]].
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** And right after the killer is confronted in jail, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Denise fries him to death with a microchip she had implanted in that brain. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Not only has Denise gone batshit crazy at this point]], but she has so much control over those around her that she's able to plant microchips in people's brains and kill them with the blink of an eye.]]
** The [=AI=] of this case is terrifying as well. Denise's plan for an earthquake involves ''fusing the meteorite's Berzelium into the nuclear plant to create a nuclear explosion, destroying almost all of Grimsborough. To make it worse, she had a fairly innocuous nuclear plant worker do her dirty work or risk having her family killed. While the nuclear explosion plan is stopped just in time by Jasper, she's already released her superhuman army into the public.
** Later, the three remaining Ad Astra members team up to stop Denise and the superhumans at the dome. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, with their superpowers proving worthless to Denise and her army. She then swiftly shoots dead Rozetta without any remorse and tosses a grenade at Joe and Julia, causing the case to end at a cliffhanger.

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** And right after the killer is confronted in jail, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Denise fries him to death with a microchip she had implanted in that brain. brain]]. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Not only has Denise gone batshit crazy at this point]], but she has so much control over those around her that she's able to plant microchips in people's brains and kill them with the blink of an eye.]]
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** The [=AI=] of this case is terrifying as well. Denise's plan for an earthquake involves ''fusing fusing the meteorite's Berzelium into the nuclear plant to create a nuclear explosion, destroying almost all of Grimsborough. To make it worse, she had a fairly innocuous nuclear plant worker do her dirty work or risk having her family killed. While the nuclear explosion plan is stopped just in time by Jasper, she's already released her superhuman army into the public.
** Later, the three remaining Ad Astra members team up to stop Denise and the superhumans at the dome. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, with their superpowers proving worthless to against Denise and her army. She then swiftly shoots dead Rozetta without any remorse and tosses a grenade at Joe and Julia, causing the case to end at a cliffhanger.
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** The Additional Investigation of the case proves that not only did Denise Daniels [[WellDoneSonGuy never approve of Rozetta's attempts to impress her, but that she had baited Rozetta into doing her dirty work with the meteorite after estranging her years prior. Then afterwards, betray her and her friends again to do something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Rozetta and Louis are terrified of what she's doing with it]].]]

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** The Additional Investigation of the case proves that not only did Denise Daniels [[WellDoneSonGuy never approve of Rozetta's attempts to impress her, her]], but that she had baited Rozetta into doing her dirty work with the meteorite after estranging her years prior. Then afterwards, betray her and her friends again to do something that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Rozetta and Louis are terrified of what she's doing with it]].]]
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* Case 57's has [[AxCrazy Christian Bateman get killed with a deadly TranquilizerDart, proving that not even superpowers can prevent the Ad Astrans from dying.]] The context behind the murder is also harrowing; Mayor Warren had no choice but to [[MercyKill perform a coup de grace, as the super serum had not only caused illness for the Ad Astrans, but because it had caused Bateman to completely lose his mind. And you're told that the serum may possibly kill the Ad Astrans.]]

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* Case 57's has [[AxCrazy Christian Bateman Bateman]] get killed with a deadly TranquilizerDart, proving that not even superpowers can prevent the Ad Astrans from dying.]] dying. The context behind the murder is also harrowing; Mayor Warren had no choice but to [[MercyKill perform a coup de grace, grace]], as the super serum had not only caused illness for the Ad Astrans, but because it had caused Bateman to completely lose his mind. And you're told that the serum may possibly kill the Ad Astrans.]]

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