Woodyvale High Reunion Murder (See Whodunit OCC)

[PoliteSuccubus]

The Woodyvale High School Reunion Planning Committee

Alyssa Sardelli (Lady_Siren)
Jason Roberts ( kamalw1 )
Reggie Jackson (poohlive)
Jonathon Focker (QueitCool)
Biff Anderson (Deceased)
Betty Anderson nee Reeves (Polite Succubus)
Sheriff Neils (Polite Succubus)


The Murder of Biff Anderson

Biff sat at the kitchen table and drank his coffee while ignoreing his wife Betty, who sat across from him. Or so it seemed. Betty knew that if her attention wandered from his needs for even an instant he'd know and snap at her to pay attention to some small minor detail.

When they were younger they both had had big plans. Leave this town, become famous or rich or both. So they married, since they wanted the same things. Then she'd worked to put him through college, beleiving in the dream even as the everyday living was wearing the dreams thin. Biff was a small minded man with an over inflated sense of self, and in order to make himself look big he made Betty feel small.

"Hey, you paying attention here?" Biff snapped at her. "My coffee cup is half full and cold."

"Sorry, Biff." She murmmered. She emptied his cup into the sink, rinsed it, and poured him a fresh cup and did a quick swipe with a paper towel around the outside so that there wouldn't be any dampness.

He took one sip of the fresh cup and then stood. "I'm going to use the pool at the school and get some paperwork done before the meeting this afternoon." As the principal of the school he often used the pool and other equipment for his own use during the weekends. He looked at her for a long moment. "Wear the grey dress to the meeting tonight."

"Alright Biff." she agreed queitly. He always chose her clothes for the day. She actually had two wardrobes. One he chose for her in public, and one he chose for her in privite. She hadn't been shopping by herself in years.

He didn't bother to kiss her goodbye, he just grabbed his jacket and keys and left. She sat at the table and listened to him leave, and then sat for about a half hour longer before riseing and going to the phone.

"Hi, it's me. Do you want to come over? Or can I come over there?" She listened to the voice on the line. "Oh, he left. He's gone to use the pool and steal some supplies from the school. He'll probably stay there until the retunion meeting at five."

Hope faded from her face as she listened to the voice again. "No, it's ok. I understand. I'll ...see a movie or just hang around here until the meeting." A ghost of a smile crossed her face. "It'll be nice to see everyone at the reunion next month."

A few more mintues of chit chat and promsies to meet in the future before Betty hung up and began straightening up the kitchen. The phone rang again. "Hello? No, he's at the pool, as usual. Ok, I'll tell him. See you there."

Biff let himself into the gym building and walked around a bit to make sure he had it to himself before going to the girls locker room and letting himself into the girls coaches office. The lost and found box sat waiting for him on a shelf and he sat at the coaches desk feeling and smelling the various bits of feminine clothing as he faced the showers, imgining the girls in his care showering there...

As usual after such a warmth provoking moment he showered himself and jumped into the pool for 50 laps. It was important to keep himself fit and looking good. Next year he'd be running for school board, then maybe mayor. He was taking a slower track to the rise of power than he'd hoped, but he'd married badly and made the mistake of comeing back to this hick town.

The outside door opened and a figure was framed against the sunlight pouring in.

"Oh, hey, hi." Biff called and waved.

"Hey." The figure answered. "Thought I'd take a few laps with you."

"No problem!" Biff grinned. He dove under the water and didn't see his vistor duck into the supply room and put on black leather gloves or grab one of the cords that they used for the swim floats.

When Biff rose up from the water at the other end of the pool his guest hadn't changed, but was squatting at the edge, waiting for him. When Biff swam over to talk he had barely risen from the water when the cord wrapped around his neck and tightened.

Totally unprepared Biff had no breath to yell out, and the side of the pool was too slick to get any leverage. Frantically he clawed at the black gloved hands to no avail. Winded already from his eariler laps it was over quickly.

The killer half pulled the body onto the ledge and made sure Biff was dead before taking the cord from around his neck and making a few other adjustments to the scene and pushing Biff back in the water.

It would have been better to make it look like an accident, but...

The killer checked the parking lot carefully and seeing no one left.

And now...at fifteen to five, please start arriving at the High School staff lounge.

 

[Lady_Siren]

Alyssa Sardelli stood in the lounge and pulled out her cell phone. . Dialing a number she called Biff's house. "Hello" came Betty's voice. "Hi Betty, is Biff available?" Alyssa asked politely. "No, he's at the pool, as usual" Alyssa smiled "Just tell him I called". " Ok, I'll tell him." Typical of Biff, he always was unreliable. Well he was alone. No one would be at the pool. "I'll see you at the reunion." she said. "See you there." was Betty's reply then they hung up. Alyssa put away her phone and headed towards the pool.

 

[kamalw1]

Jason Roberts
I drove my car into the parking lot and checked my watch. It was five minutes to five. I wouldn't have to be back at the station until 9 for the 10 o'clock news. I would be able to spend a good amount of time at this meeting, planning for the class reunion next month. I thought about how good it would be to see all my old buddies from high school and hear all the stories they would have to tell. I got out of the car and walked across the lot, entering the school, wondering if everyone else was here.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Johnathon Focker

Five minutes till five and I pushed open the door leading into Faculty Lounge, wondering if I was in the right place.
I wasn't really sure why I'd agreed to be here in the first place. I guesed it was because the industry was a little slow in my genre, especially with the sudden resurgence of those teenie-bopper type films. Did Lizzie MaGuire really need her own movie?
ANd sitting at home...? Too boring without work to do. I was already storing scripts away, waiting for the industry to come back around to what I had to offer.
For now, though, the best I could do is bide my time. So here I was, a volunteer to help with the tenth reunion. I wouldn't have bothered considering, nonetheless signing up, if I'd known Biff Anderson was running the show. I remembered that ass wipe from High School.
"Hey, you! Lame mother Focker!" He'd laugh. Never leaving me alone for even a second when we were near each other. Biff had always been an ass hole. One of those guys you'd wish would just vanish off the face of the Earth. He'd even called my house when he'd realized I'd signed up and asked me if I was still the loser I was in high school. By the time the five minute conversation had ended, my blood was boiling and I felt like it was no later than the day before graduation.
"Ass hole," I'd spat, and my wife had looked at me, confused.
"Sorry, hon," I'd said. "Just a voice from the past. I'll be fine in a while."
But the anger was returning when I reached town again, remembering the ass hole and how he'd managed to snag Betty, my high school crush, before I'd even gotten up the nerve to ask her out.
I smiled, looking into the room where a woman, oddly familiar, but in a distant way, stood.
"This where the meeting is?"
My shoes squished loudly as I stepped closer, water leaking from them onto the carpetting.
"Sorry," I said, embarassed. "Stepped in a water puddle..."

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Betty

Betty came into the lounge dressed in blue and looking nervous, her cheeks tinged with the flush of excitment or nervousness as she patted her hair to make sure it was in place.

"Sorry I'm late, everyone, I should have had the coffee started and everything." She murmmered as she rushed over to the Mr. Coffee with a pink box of donuts.

 

[poohlive]

Reggie sat there, doodling on a piece of paper. On it were typed up a few things, none of them he would actually speak, but all of them ideas nonetheless. They were here just in case he was forced to speak.
He didn't volunteer for this.
Biff volunteered him.
He clenched the pen in his hand, the doodle digging into the paper now, instead of writing over it.
An agreement had been achieved. Reggie agreed to come here. He would go through the hoops and shit, just long enough to please everyone, and then he would be gone. Just like last time, a fucking fly on the wall, there one minute, off buzzing in his own little world the next.
Fuck, he had no clue how Biff had reached him. Reggie thought he had shed himself of everyone from high school. Not Biff though. That guy was smart. He was ignorant, demeaning, mean, and obnoxious, but the fucker was smart. Above all else, that scared him the most.
He sat there, in the meeting room, alone. He was a good half hour early, so he just sat there and doodled on his useless piece of paper.
When Betty came in, Reggie gave a small smile, looking back down at his paper as if it now contained something important. It didn't, but his eyes were now busy.
At least that was something.

 

[Lady_Siren]

Alyssa reached the pool taking off the black gloves she had bought for this occasion. Her eyes took in the scene settling on Biff who seemed to be working on his floating technique. "Biff?" no reply. She frowned stepping closer to the pool "Biff?" again there was no reply. He wasn't moving, was he ok? Glancing around she grabbed onto the pool cleaning instrument and extended it poking Biff in the side. No reaction, Alyssa felt a cold sweat creep down her spine. She glanced around realizing she didn't have much choice, she took off her jacket and shoes then dove into the pool. She swam out to Biff grabbing onto him and slowly but surely dragging him to the stairs wear she dragged him partway out. His lips were blue, his eyes wide and glazed. "Oh God" she murmured her hand going to his pulse already knowing what she would find. "Help!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. She didn't want to leave him here "Can anyone hear me? Please Help!!"

 

[kamalw1]

I vaguely heard someone yelling as I sat in the lounge, waiting for the meeting to start. I ran out the room and listened to see where the cries were coming from. Realising that they were coming from the pool, I ran down the hall to see what was going on. I burst through the door and saw Alyssa in the pool, trying to drag Biff's body out of the water. "What's going on?" I asked her as I helped heft his body out and place it on the floor.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Betty

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Betty looked up and bit her lip as Jason suddenly sat forward and then quickly walked from the room.

"Reggie...?" she made a gesture towards the open doorway. "Maybe you could go see?" She glanced at Jon, but doubted such a successful man would understand why she couldn't leave the staff room when Biff exspected her to stay here until he arrived.

 

[Lady_Siren]

Alyssa looked up as Jason helped her with Biff. "I don't know. I was coming here to speak with him and I found him floating in the pool." She bit her lip forcing herself to calm down. That was when she noticed something, something strange. "Jason whats that around his neck?" she leaned in for a closer look. "It looks like something was wrapped around his neck." her eyes widened with realization "Jason I think he was strangled."

 

[kamalw1]

Jason Roberts

I looked at the marks on his neck. "Yeah," I said, "it does look like he might have been stangled." I then pulled out my cell phone and dialed 911. When the dispatcher picked up, I told her what was going on. She said she would send an ambulance over. I hung up and told Alyssa that someone was coming.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Neils

"Calling nearst unit to the high school, possiable drowning in the pool." Shirl's crisp voice came over the scanner even though she knew that the only two cars out where his and Darrell's and Darrell was on traffic duty. She tried to sound as professional as possiable since there was no possiable way she could or would remember the proper codes.

"This is Neils, I'll take it." He pulled away from where he was parked by the store. Lately some teenagers had been getting the bums that asked for change to go in and buy them smokes and beers. He hadn't desided yet who'd he bust, the kid or the bum, but he wanted to send a message to both groups to stay away from each other.

He wondered who would be in the pool at this time of day, then remembered that the school was having a class of 93 reunion. He gave a grin when he recalled that as a rookie he'd busted most of that class for drunk and disorderly at one party or another up at the lake.

 

[poohlive]

Reg

Reggie nodded to Betty, getting up.
"Sure, no problem. I'll go see."
He walked towards the commotion, not with any urgency, but more like a man who had been told to go somewhere. Standing at the door's edge, he looked on at what was happening.
Biff had just been killed. Reggie looked on with a sort of muffled shock. Inside he shook with almost happiness, looking at his puffed torso and bloated head, but he did nothing more than look solemnly.
They had called the ambulance, that was good. He didn't know if he could do anything, but he stood there, a pace away, not wanting to go any closer.
"Guys," He ran back to the meeting, seeing as that was the best course of action, "Everyone, Something's wrong with Biff. I think he might be dead."

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Betty

"No." Betty quirked a nervious smile. "He's swimming. He'll be here shortly."

The coffee filter fell from her nervousless fingers as she stood there, her face white.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Johnathon Focker

"Everyone, Something's wrong with Biff. I think he might be dead."
I raised my eyebrows from the newspaper I'd picked up, the words seeming distant, unreal.
Biff.
Dead.
I looked up to see the man standing there. Regie Jackson. Probably made fun of his name back in school too.
"No. He's swimming. He'll be here shortly."
Betty's face had gone white. She was nervous by the looks.
Now what? Should I stay here? Go and check out what was going on?
Reluctantly (I was reluctant to be here altogether) I set the newspaper down, and stood, more water squishing out onto the carpet fro my shoes. If it hadn't drenched my socks so much, I would hardly have minded, but the way my socks clung to my feet...
I walked out inot the hall, moving past Reggie and headed in the direction from which he'd come. When I reached the pool, an odd chill rolled up my spine, remembering the last time I'd been here and what had happened with some level of disbelief.
I shook it off and peered into the room. Biff was still, not moving at all. Jason and Alyssa were both in there already, and given the man's pale complexion, open eyes, and blue lips, it seemed that there was nothing I could do that would make any difference, besides maybe stay out fo the way.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Neils

Neils pulled into the parking lot of the high school and jotted down the plates of the few cards there. He glanced at his watch and noted the time as well....5:25. The door to the pool house was open and someone was standing in the doorway, lights where on in the office windows, and the hallway.

He got out of the car, slide in his baton into the holester, and crossed the lot to stand next to the vaugely familer younger man in the doorway and took in the scene inside the poolhouse.

A girl who would be normally pretty was soaking wet, and strangely wearing black gloves as she sat at the edge of the pool with the apparently dead Biff Anderson. Beside her was the more familar face of Jason Roberts who was not wet, and not looking particually shocked or particually pleased to be sitting around with a corpse.

A quick visual showed no other signs of visitors, the pool lights were on but the house lights were off, and the door jamb didn't show signs of being forced. Looking at the walkway he did see traces of wet footprints, but instead of leading away from the doorway they led up to it...and the man watching the scene. A closer exam showed that the man's feet were wet.

"Excuse me sir." Neils said in his best everything-is-being-handled-please-remain-calm voice. "Could you step inside and to the right while I close this door? We need to perserve the scene until the situation has been assessed."

 

[kamalw1]

Jason Roberts

I looked up from the body and saw the new arrival. "Sheriff Neils, I'm glad you are here. Alyssa found Biff here floating in the pool and, when I heard her scream, came running to help. You have to call an ambulance."

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Neils

Bending over the body Neils pushed his hat back.

"The ambulance is on another call, and Biff won't need one in a hurry."

He glanced up at the wet girl. "Jason, why not get the lady one of the towels from the locker room?"

The face of Biffs watch was broken. Cordage marks had been pressed into his neck, and the cord removed. His nails had black under them, and Neils removed two plastic baggies from his pocket and placed them over Biffs hands.

"What time, exactly, did you discover the body, miss?"

 

[Lady_Siren]

Alyssa shuddered as she looked at Biff again. She removed her black soaking gloves and looked up as Neils asked her a question. "I discovered him only about fifteen minuttes ago. I saw him floating in the pool. I called him but when he didn't respond I realized something was wrong so I jumped in after him." she bit her lips shivering "I can't believe he's dead. "

 

[poohlive]

Reggie went up to her, unsure if he should touch her. She had that look like she needed to be comforted, but he didn't feel himself the person to do that. They had barely spoken to each other in high school, and he hadn't seen her since then.
She was a stranger, but she looked like she was going to pass out onto the floor.
He reached out an unsteady arm to her shoulder. It was an understandable compromise.
"Betty, the cops are here. I think it's bad. He looked hurt, and wasn't moving. Don't worry, they'll call the paramedics. Just sit down or something, ok? Have a doughnut... I don't know. What do you need, what do you want?"

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Betty

“What..” Betty looked at him, her eyes large. “If Biff ...” At Reggies touch Betty burst into tears. “What will I do if
Biff is gone?” She wailed collasping in Reggies arms. As if her legs had buckled from under her Reggie found himself
supporting the entire weight of the sobbing woman..

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Neils

Although he felt awkward, Neils used a pencil and put the gloves the woman had shed into another baggie and
looked meaningfully at the other man’s shoes. “I’m afraid we have a homocide here, and I’ll need to take your shoes
and socks. From the marks outside it seems that your shoes were wet before you came into the building. I’m sure
everything will be fine, but I need to get as much info I can to clear everyone quickly. I'll also need everyones name. Jason, who else is here?”

 

[kamalw1]

Jason Roberts

I came back and handed Alyssa towel as Neil took her gloves and asked for Jonathon's shoes. "Well, Reggie Jackson is back in the faculty lounge with Betty." That's when it hit me that Betty was still in the lounge. "Oh man, poor Betty. I'll go see if she's okay," I said, moving towards the door.

 

[PoliteSuccubus]

Neils

“If anyone knows where the keys are so we can seal the crime scene, I think we should all go to the lougue for the
time being.” Neils said, straigtening up and holding out a hand to help the wet young lady to her feet.

 

[Angelus]

Eddie Roberts

Eddie walked slowly through the school and looked around, wondering why he had come back. Everyone had been nasty to him, especially Biff Anderson but he had come back to teach Biff a lesson. He walked towards the main hall but wondered where everyone was. fHe walked down the halls and with every class room that he passed thoughts and emotions came flowing back to him.

Again he wondered if anyone was here and wondered if this was just a joke for his humiliation and their pleasure. He let out a sigh and wondered if he should turn around and leave this place but when he heard the sound of a woman crying he moved quickly in that direction and went straight into one of the class rooms. He stopped when he saw a person in a police uniform and a crying woman in there. "I hope that I'm not too late. I just had to change."