The Chanelle Simmons Case

The Chanelle Simmons Case is the Grandsboro Police Department's open and shut case involving the accidental death of Chanelle Simmons. The victim was the wife of Gordon Kahn, a top defense attorney.

Case
After interviewing Miguel, Brandi went over the four post-it papers of the four people she talked with over Chanelle. She noticed that Miguel's statement revealed that Chanelle was unhappy with her marriage to Gordon. The statement made Brandi believed that there was something dark going on in Gordon and Chanelle's marriage. Miguel's statement also revealed that the day he learned of Chanelle's death, he and Chanelle were planning on running away together along with their two children. This made Brandi question on what was going on in Gordon Kahn's marriage. Later on, Brandi visited medical examiner Dr. Lisa Wu at the morgue and asked if she can look at Chanelle's autopsy. Lisa was against showing something confidential to a reporter, but Brandi begged her to let her check it out, as she had an hunch. Lisa finally gave Brandi a file of Chanelle's autopsy. Brandi discovered something in the autopsy report on the victim. Chanelle had multiple bruises on over her body, her right forearm was recently broken, and healed bruising from her ribcage. Lisa explained to Brandi that she was advised not to give out the report to Chanelle's parents. But both Brandi and Lisa agreed that what happened to Chanelle was no accident, and that Gordon was indeed abusing his wife on a regular basis.

Brandi chatted with Danny Simmons', Chanelle's younger brother. When Brandi complimented on Chanelle's memorial, Danny thanked her, saying that Chanelle would have wanted her entire family present. But wished that Gordon Kahn would have been there. Brandi questioned on why Kahn would ditched Chanelle's memorial, like he did at her funeral. Danny explained that he had work to do on a case. But he found Kahn at a bar, completely intoxicated. Brandi believed that Kahn wasn't working on a case and had lied to Danny's mother. Danny exclaimed that Kahn is having a hard time with Chanelle's death. But when Danny said "I think", Brandi asked on why would he say that. Danny revealed to Brandi that Kahn revealed something in confidence. He said that throughout their marriage, he and Chanelle argued, but despite loving Chanelle, it wasn’t enough. He also revealed that he let her slip through my fingers and didn’t know how he'll live with the guilt. Danny believed that he only said that because he was drunk. However, Brandi realizes that Kahn could have something to do with Chanelle's death.

Afterwards, Brandi visited Dr. Lisa Wu and asked if she was there when Chanelle died. Brandi believed that Chanelle may have been murdered by her own husband.

Brandi wrote in her notepad that Gordon was now a top suspect in his own wife's death. He was abusing her and she had planned on leaving him and taking their children. He killed her when he found out about it. Then Brandi was notified by Jenna about a body being found.

Brandi was shocked to discover that Trina's back card was in Kahn's wallet, leading her to suspect that Kahn had something to do with Trina's death. She revealed that Kahn not only murdered Trina, but had stolen her bank card. Melanie, Brandi's sister, thought that it was a serious accusation as Kahn is already wealthy. But Brandi is adamant about her suspicions. Leading Melanie to contact Kahn's office at the law firm. However, Melanie was informed that Kahn was fired seven months ago. She and Brandi inform Jenna, Trevor, and Kevin about. Kevin is in shock by what he heard. He sends Jenna to talk Shirley Jackson about Kahn's relationship with her sister and sends Trevor to Kahn's former law firm to talk to his ex-boss about firing Kahn and blacklisting him. Upon returning, Jenna reveals to the others that Trina didn't trust Kahn and that she and Shirley had an argument about him. Kevin realizes that it was hardly motive for Kahn to kill Trina, but takes it under advisement with the accusation of Kahn stealing money from Trina. Trevor explains that Kahn sent abusive messages to his ex-boss's email. Plus, Kahn's ex-boss threatened to expose his secret if we ever tried to appeal his termination from the law firm. This lead to suspicion that there was more to Kahn's clashing with his boss than meets the eye. Trevor, Jenna, Kevin, Melanie, and Brandi suspect that Kahn's ex-boss discovered that Kahn was a wife-beater and had set him up to get him fired from the firm and blacklisted. They also believed that Kahn manipulated Trina's sister, Shirley into giving away access to Trina's bank account to extort money from his victim. The group realize that the big key to the investigation is Kahn himself and that his big secret was that he was abusing his wife and she ended up dead when she tried to leave him.

Objects

 * Trina's earring
 * Trina's Bank Card - Gordon posed as Trina to deceive her sister, Shirley into revealing her access to her card so he would steal money from her.

Vehicles

 * Brandi's Scooter

People Questioned in the Case

 * Keith Simmons (Chanelle's father) - He didn't like nor trust his son-in-law, Gordon Kahn. He revealed that Kahn bailed out of Chanelle's funeral to work on Traci Ford's trial.
 * Patricia Jacobs (Chanelle's mother) - She loved and trusted Kahn, unware of the abuse he put her daughter through. She
 * Shirley Jackson (Trina's sister) - She moved in at the Kahn's house to help Gordon with his kids following Chanelle's death. Their friendship fell apart when he show little interest in finding her missing sister, Trina. In the time she stayed with Kahn, he and Trina didn't get along.
 * Miguel Flores (Friend of Chanelle's) - He and Chanelle had spent time together. He revealed that she needed money to leave her husband. On the night they were supposed to flee, she never made it. And found out that she died the next morning.
 * Alice Carlyle (Kahn's secretary) - She noticed Traci Ford wearing Chanelle Simmons' clothing at a Gala event when she went as Kahn's date. Kahn told her that he and Traci were falling in love, which she finds it "strange".
 * Danny Simmons (Chanelle's brother) - He talked to Kahn on the day of what would have been Chanelle's birthday. He revealed that Kahn told Danny's mother that he was skipping Chanelle's memorial to work on a case. But he caught him wasted at a bar. He also revealed that before Chanelle's death, Kahn revealed that in time he and Chanelle were married that they argued and he let her slip through my fingers. I don’t know how I’ll live with the guilt..