Ace Attorney: Secrets beneath Secrets

The Falsified Turnabout, Part 2

April 1

Interrogation Room No. 2

3:00 PM

Yuri Rinko

The next interrogation room over was considerably less crowded, I noticed. There was a table in there, but there wasn't a body. Not many police officers were huddled around anything specific. In fact, there were only a few standing off in the corner. As for other people, there was only one person, and he was sitting at the table in the center of the room.

He looked a lot like Detective Erikson, I noticed. He was wearing a large jacket of a beige color. His hair was black, though gray was starting to creep into it. His eyes were tired and matched Detective Erikson's in color. He hadn't noticed us yet since he was far too busy staring at his hands. 

"Um... Hello?" Victoria asked, walking a bit closer after brief hesitation. "Are you the witness for this case?"

The man stood after seeing us. "Who's asking?" he questioned bluntly. He was tall, I noticed. I felt short with him, Deirdre, and Victoria surrounding me on all sides.

"Deirdre Brigit, Yuri Rinko, and Victoria von Graye. We're the defense attorneys on this case," Deirdre explained. As always, she was the one keeping her cool. She could easily compete with Mr. Morix for being the most relaxed of our little agency crew.

The man's face softened. "It's nice to meet you. I'm Kraig Erikson. I'm Toby's father and a detective myself," he told us.

"It's nice to meet you," Victoria smiled, bowing her head slightly. "We were wondering if you could tell us about what you saw when you discovered the body."

"I can do that, yes," the man said. You know what? Saying Detective Erikson for two different people is going to get confusing. I'll just call him Detective Kraig. Technically, it's still accurate, so nobody can pester me about it.

"You were the one to discover the victim had died, yes?" Deirdre prompted.

"I was. I knew Toby usually came by around this time to question Clarence on his crimes and hoping to get a confession out of him. The interrogation was supposed to end ages beforehand, and yet, it didn't. I was starting to get worried, so I decided to go check on him. When I did, I found Toby unconscious with the body," Detective Kraig told us. "I'm sure you saw the crime scene. There was a teacup with spilled tea. He was poisoned, so that was the murder weapon."

"What did you do after finding the scene?" Victoria asked.

"I shook Toby awake. I wasn't sure if he was dead or just unconscious, so I tried to get him up. He woke up shortly afterwards, and once he was awake, I called for help. Nothing was changed about the crime scene as far as I can tell. As crime scenes go, it's rather simplistic," Detective Kraig continued.

"We noticed. With so little to look through, we're really going to have to rely on testimony to take care of things," I remarked with a shake of my head. I never liked these cases. Investigating the crime scene was so important, and if we couldn't do that, it made things so much harder.

"Did anything else stick out to you about the crime scene? Was anything else off when you discovered the body, inside or outside the interrogation room?" Deirdre questioned next.