Godwin Heights — It was Jayla H. with a gun in the laboratory with assistance from her boyfriend, Chris P., thus solving the case of who killed Mann E. Kin, said senior Cameron Overton.
Cameron is part of the Godwin Heights’ forensics class, which this past fall analyzed a simulated crime scene to solve the whodunit.
“I enjoyed figuring out who did it,” he said. “One thing I realized through this is that everything happens for a reason, like the line drawn under Chris’s name by the professor to indicate the killer.
“I like how everything has a way of being connected to the crime.”
By following the clues, the class was able to determine that Jayla was failing Organic Chemistry and got into a fight with the professor, which was hinted at by a note left at the scene that read “How could you do this to me?”
A struggle ensued, with both suspects leaving their DNA and Chris leaving a footprint in sand that had been spilled on the floor, Cameron said. In the end, it was Chris who knocked the professor out with the scale that had the professor’s DNA on it, and Jayla who shot the professor with her gun, he explained.
“Through the process, what this showed me was that anyone can get into this field,” Cameron said. “You don’t have to be a super detective to solve a mystery; you just have to know how people work and what they do in situations like this.”
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