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Lucas Brayden Smith Murder

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“This morning, September 4th, 2015, Lucas Brayden Smith was found dead in his office of his very successful business, The Black,” read the local newspaper header. Katie Ann Smith dropped to the floor when she heard this, considering this man was her husband.
It all started 5 years ago when Katie and Lucas Smith got married. The night of the wedding, Lucas received great news from his father,Thomas Adam Smith, Lucas was going to receive the family business because his dad was too old to keep up with it. Although Lucas and Katie were extremely happy about this news, Lucas’s brother, John Smith, was not ecstatic about this since he thought the business would be handed down to him since he is the oldest.
Three years later, Katie and John had …show more content…

The investigators got right to work. They started by getting to know about Lucas’s history: he was a very wealthy man with a multi-million dollar business, he had a wife and two kids, and he had never done anything bad before. The sleuths got the feeling that the murder had to do with the business since that was Lucas’s most prized possession. They started to investigate the different suspects, and the first one was Katie Smith. Next, the sleuths called Katie in and started asking her many questions. They started with “Where were you the night of the murder?” Katie looked to the left and then to the right and answered “I was at my friend, Alyssa Lynn Bunches’ house.” The investigators had no reason not to believe her except for the fact that they found out that she lives on the other side of the country. They knew she had to of made up the friend, but they didn’t want her to know they knew the friend was fake. They sent Katie home and brought in her brother in …show more content…

Then the 2nd investigator pulled out a picture it was of the gun used to kill Lucas. John gasped.
“Does this look familiar at all?”
“Yes it does, our dad gave both me and my brother one of those guns, and I know that my brother kept it in a safe in his bedroom closet” said John.
“We need you to take us to your house right away, and show us your copy of the gun.”
They all got into John's car and raced over to his house, went down to a safe in the basement, which had a layer of dust on it and had clearly not been opened in a long time. John put in the combination and gave the investigators a gun identical to the one used to kill Lucas.
“Now take us to your sister in law's house,” said the sleuths.
When they arrived, Katie opened the door immediately. They showed her the same picture of the gun they showed to John and asked the same question. Katie had no problem going to the safe in the closet leading off the master bedroom where the gun was always kept. They got to the safe, and the gun was lying on the floor right in front of the safe.
“Why isn’t the gun in the safe?” asked one of the investigators.
“I have no clue!” exclaimed Katie, “I haven’t been in here since the

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