My Story
FINAL DRAFT
Logan Kelley
Pam Baker
English 3C
23 February 2012
Drugs and Alcohol Lead to Death
It was March 12, 2001 when Michael Rogers was murdered in an alcohol and drug Rehab Center in Northern California near the California and Oregon Border. The Person who found Michael Rogers dead in his room of 218 was the owner of the Rehab Center Kelly Jenkins who was 50. Room 218 is located on the 2nd floor room 18. At first Kelly was scared to call the Police because she did not want to have a guest of the center to go back to jail. So Kelly put an ad in the local newspaper for a cheap Detective. The add said “Hi my name is Kelly Jenkins and I own the local Alcohol and Drug Rehab Center and we have a problem and I need a detective and I do not have much money so if you can help please call (714) 822-9088.” One hour later she gets a call from Xavier Cooper. Xavier Cooper is 23 years old born on March 23 1988. Ever since he was 13 years old he has loved solving mysteries. On his 18th birthday Xavier was sentenced to 4 years in prison for Grand Theft Auto with and under age drinking. He got out of prison 4 days after his 22nd birthday. He tried to get a job but instead, he went to rehab. He went to the alcohol and drug rehab center that Michael Rodgers went to. When he got to rehab he had to stay for 90 days.
While at rehab he read a lot of books such as The Big Sheep, The Sign Of Four and Storm Front. He played the game clue a lot with his roommates. He played the game Clue at least 15 times a day. After his 90 days of rehab was over, he applied for collages. He got accepted to a small community collage in Northern California. The day he turned 24 one of his best friends who was also one of Xavier’s roommates at rehab was murdered. So Xavier Cooper Called Kelly and said that he would love to help Kelly because she saved his life from going back down the grains. At first Kelley had a few suspects in mind but wasn’t sure she didn’t say anything to the guests of the rehab center. Kelly then called in the guard Samuel of the rehab center to ask him a few questions about any suspicious activity.
“So Sam what were you doing during your night shift last night.” Kelly questioned Sam.
“I was doing the job that I do every night why?” Replied Sam.
“There was a murder and I want to ask you a few questions” Said Kelly.
“What questions do you need to ask me so I can do my job.” Sam replied with a nervous tone in his voice.
“Sam tell me everything that you did last night.” Kelly said .
“I got in to work at 8 o’clock pm like I do every night, then I got a call on my cell phone and the number was blocked, when I answered they hung up the phone.” Sam said.
“Sam did you here anything in the background of the phone call.” Kelly wondered.
“no nothing much.” Said Sam.
“Okay Sam you can go back to work.” Kelly said with a pissed off tone in her voice
Kelly was suspicious at first because she didn’t think that Sam was telling the truth. When Sam went on his break Kelly stole Sam’s phone and looked thru the recent calls and found out there was no recent call that was blocked. So Kelly waited for Sam to get off his break so she can ask Sam a few questions because he was not 100% truthful with the questions that Kelly asked him about a hour ago.
“Sam is there anything that you need to tell me.” Kelly said
“No Kelly there is nothing that I feel like I have to tell you why is there a problem with what I am doing. What are you talking about” Sam said confused
“The last time I saw you I asked you what you did when you got to work last night and you said that you got a call” Kelley said
“I did” Sam interrupted
“Well is there any thing that you need to tell me about the phone call” Kelly said with a pissed of tone’
“What the heck is wrong” Wondered Sam
“ YOU LIED TO ME SAM HOW CAN YOU DO THIS” Kelly Screamed in a mean tone towards Sam
“What did I lie about Kelly” Sam wondered
You said the number was blocked and it wasn’t” Kelly said with a mad look on her face.
“ Oops I am sorry I really didn’t think that it was a big deal” Sam said with regret
“It’s a huge deal who called you” Kelly said quickly
“A girl” Sam said
“What did the girl want said” Kelly.
“She told me that there was a murder Sam said
“Did she tell you anything about the murder” Kelly wondered.
“No she only said there was a murder.” Sam said
Kelly went back to her office after confronting the guard because the detective Xavier Cooper has finally arrived. When Xavier arrived he asked Kelly “ Can I see Mike”
“Sure he is still in his room. You know where it is right.” said Kelley
“ Yes. Its still room 218” Xavier replied
Yes said Kelly.
Xavier walked up the stairs to the second floor and then walked to the 18th room and Kelly shut the door behind him. Xavier found his friend Mike shot I the back of the head with a 9mm bullet. Xavier knew it was a 9mm because it is a small powerful caliber round used in most handguns. So Xavier looks around the room for clues and he finds a code that was carved into the back of the door with a knife of some sort. Xavier called Kelly into the room and Xavier read the code out loud EGNN RJQPG. Kelly was confused at first. But Xavier knew exactly what it was. Xavier told Kelly that it was a simple substitution cipher code. So Xavier found a piece of paper and wrote down the alphabet, in lower case and then shifted the starting code down one letter then two then three
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B
D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z A B C D
After Xavier did that he rewrote out the code EGNN RJQPG then he matched up the letters. And came out with DFMM QIPOG he said that made no sense so he tried his second set of letters and it came out with CELL PHONE.
“CELL PHONE” blurted Kelly.
“Okay that’s a start” Said Xavier.
“Lets looks at mikes cell phone” Kelly said.
So Xavier looked at Mikes cell phone and he found nothing at first. So Xavier started going through his recent call and his texts. What Xavier found did not make sense to him but it was clear to Kelly because it was the same number that was on the Sam the guards phone. So Kelly wanted to go back to asking Sam more questions but Xavier stopper her because he didn’t want Kelly to make Sam fell blamed for the murder. Ok Xavier wanted to see if there was any more clues or any type of codes in room 218. So Kelly and Xavier started to tear the room apart and they found something very weird to both Kelly and Xavier. The found 15 cell phones under the floorboards in the back right corner of room 218 so they turned all of the cell phones on. And every cell phone had a code that had to be entered in the phone to you can access the main screen. Kelly and Xavier didn’t have time to try all the codes for every phone. So Xavier was mad and threw one against the wall and after it broke he found a code on the battery of the phone. So Kelly took all the backs of the phones off and the codes on the batteries were the access codes. After putting in every code Kelly and Xavier started looking through the calls and texts but they were nothing but just old cell phones. But in the last cell phone there was a message and it read RM NUM WPN at first they were like another message. But after Xavier looked at it for a few minutes he liked them up like a math problem.
RM
+NUM
WPN
“Room + Number = Weapon I got it ” Kelly screamed at the top of her lungs
Ok then Xavier started trying to figure out the math equation and he was stumped at first but then he started putting the codes on the back of the cell phones in the problem and what they found was the 56+246=302. So Xavier kept the three cell phones he thinks that there will be another part of the murder that will include the three cell phones. So he ended up getting “302”. So Kelly and Xavier ran as fast as they could up to the third floor room 302. What they had them speechless. They found the murder weapon on the dresser and something else on the bed. They found 9mm bullets with the case right next to them and they found a picture drawn with the bullets and it looked like 5!.
So Xavier screamed “FIVE FACTORIAL”
“What is Factorial “Kelly asked Xavier?
“A factorial is when a number with an exclamation mark after it and what you do if you multiply the number and every number before it all the way to zero” Xavier said
“So then it would be 5x4x3x2x1” Kelly said wit a smile on her face.
“YES” screamed Xavier you got it.
Xavier and Kelly were confused at first because what did 120 have to do with anything. So Kelly started going through all of the possibilities. At first Kelly thought it was the numbers of people at the Rehab center then she said There are only 92 patients here then she wanted to see how many actual people are on the actual Rehab center campus and it was 121 but Xavier that it would become 120 because Michael was dead. And then Xavier realized that there were 120 possible killers at the rehab center. So what Xavier had Kelly do is have her go in to her files and see who was working at the time of the murder because there will be a greater chance of the murder being someone working the time of the killing. So Kelly did and what she found was 3 cooks 2 guards 7 maids 2 landscapers. So then Xavier looked up all of the workers up to see if they have any previous criminal record so that Xavier and Kelly could interview them first to see what they were doing during the time of the murder. What Xavier came up with was disturbing. He found out that one of the cooks has been in jail for Assault with a Deadly weapon. So Xavier came to the conclusion that he had to be the murder but when he interviewed the cook he found out the cook was assaulted with a deadly weapon and he saw his family die by a guy with a knife and he was the only person in his family to survive.
So Kelly and Xavier wanted to check all of the workers cell phones of the employees who were working during the time of the killing.
“Kelly” shouted Xavier.
“What” said Kelly.
“You check the maids cell phones and ill check the guards cooks and the landscapers cell phones,” Xavier said with confidence because he thought that he find a clue.
“That sounds like s great idea” Kelly said.
Xavier was done checking all of the phones and he didn’t find anything. He went to find Kelly and she said, “ Look what I found Xavier.”
She found a picture of another clue and it looked a little weird to Kelly. But Xavier being Xavier thought he knew what it was. Kelly didn’t have a clue because it was a string of number, 11, 19, 36, and 60. Xavier took a few minutes to realize that it was a 2x2 matrix. After he solved the matrix he came out with CELL. He didn’t know what cell phone the code was talking about so they went through all of the cell phone it was talking about, they walked back to the room that Michael was murdered in. They did the only thing they haven’t done they looked through every pocket in Michaels dead body and they found a piece of paper that looked like it was written by a two year old. They thought this because how messy the handwriting was.
“ It was written by a lefty” Xavier said
“How do you know” Kelly asked
“ Because the letters are smugged to the right.” said Xavier
The was a note with a funky notation on it.
A*B A B/B x B = ?
5*10 = what
After doing the math Xavier got an answer of 50. After putting it all together he got something like this
50, CELL,120 , 302, CELL PHONE. Xavier was truly stumped for once he thought that since cell phone came up twice that it might be the most important. Then he wondered what 50 was. Then he said to Kelly “How many of the 120 people on campus are 50 years old.”
So Kelly looked through her records and found only 5 people :
The Guard Sam
A Cook
A Landscaper
A Maid
And Her
Since the guard came back Xavier went to ask the guard some questions. When he saw the guard he noticed that he had some ink on his right hand. And was about 5’10”. After going through his phone a gain Xavier noticed that if you called the other number that was in a lot of the other phones it was a second cell phone that the guard Sam had in his pocket. Xavier was confused at first and then he kept questioning Sam and all Sam said was “I plead the 5th”. So Xavier called the cops and they arrested Sam and took him to the police station. Xavier listened in when the cops questioned him and what Sam said was “ yes I did kill him, he had an affair with my wife. And I left all of the clues but I wasn’t expecting Kelly to call and one because I knew she didn’t want anyone of her patients to go back to jail.”
The next day Sam went to court and was sentenced to life in prison with no bail.
The End
Logan Kelley
Pam Baker
English 3C
23 February 2012
Drugs and Alcohol Lead to Death
It was March 12, 2001 when Michael Rogers was murdered in an alcohol and drug Rehab Center in Northern California near the California and Oregon Border. The Person who found Michael Rogers dead in his room of 218 was the owner of the Rehab Center Kelly Jenkins who was 50. Room 218 is located on the 2nd floor room 18. At first Kelly was scared to call the Police because she did not want to have a guest of the center to go back to jail. So Kelly put an ad in the local newspaper for a cheap Detective. The add said “Hi my name is Kelly Jenkins and I own the local Alcohol and Drug Rehab Center and we have a problem and I need a detective and I do not have much money so if you can help please call (714) 822-9088.” One hour later she gets a call from Xavier Cooper. Xavier Cooper is 23 years old born on March 23 1988. Ever since he was 13 years old he has loved solving mysteries. On his 18th birthday Xavier was sentenced to 4 years in prison for Grand Theft Auto with and under age drinking. He got out of prison 4 days after his 22nd birthday. He tried to get a job but instead, he went to rehab. He went to the alcohol and drug rehab center that Michael Rodgers went to. When he got to rehab he had to stay for 90 days.
While at rehab he read a lot of books such as The Big Sheep, The Sign Of Four and Storm Front. He played the game clue a lot with his roommates. He played the game Clue at least 15 times a day. After his 90 days of rehab was over, he applied for collages. He got accepted to a small community collage in Northern California. The day he turned 24 one of his best friends who was also one of Xavier’s roommates at rehab was murdered. So Xavier Cooper Called Kelly and said that he would love to help Kelly because she saved his life from going back down the grains. At first Kelley had a few suspects in mind but wasn’t sure she didn’t say anything to the guests of the rehab center. Kelly then called in the guard Samuel of the rehab center to ask him a few questions about any suspicious activity.
“So Sam what were you doing during your night shift last night.” Kelly questioned Sam.
“I was doing the job that I do every night why?” Replied Sam.
“There was a murder and I want to ask you a few questions” Said Kelly.
“What questions do you need to ask me so I can do my job.” Sam replied with a nervous tone in his voice.
“Sam tell me everything that you did last night.” Kelly said .
“I got in to work at 8 o’clock pm like I do every night, then I got a call on my cell phone and the number was blocked, when I answered they hung up the phone.” Sam said.
“Sam did you here anything in the background of the phone call.” Kelly wondered.
“no nothing much.” Said Sam.
“Okay Sam you can go back to work.” Kelly said with a pissed off tone in her voice
Kelly was suspicious at first because she didn’t think that Sam was telling the truth. When Sam went on his break Kelly stole Sam’s phone and looked thru the recent calls and found out there was no recent call that was blocked. So Kelly waited for Sam to get off his break so she can ask Sam a few questions because he was not 100% truthful with the questions that Kelly asked him about a hour ago.
“Sam is there anything that you need to tell me.” Kelly said
“No Kelly there is nothing that I feel like I have to tell you why is there a problem with what I am doing. What are you talking about” Sam said confused
“The last time I saw you I asked you what you did when you got to work last night and you said that you got a call” Kelley said
“I did” Sam interrupted
“Well is there any thing that you need to tell me about the phone call” Kelly said with a pissed of tone’
“What the heck is wrong” Wondered Sam
“ YOU LIED TO ME SAM HOW CAN YOU DO THIS” Kelly Screamed in a mean tone towards Sam
“What did I lie about Kelly” Sam wondered
You said the number was blocked and it wasn’t” Kelly said with a mad look on her face.
“ Oops I am sorry I really didn’t think that it was a big deal” Sam said with regret
“It’s a huge deal who called you” Kelly said quickly
“A girl” Sam said
“What did the girl want said” Kelly.
“She told me that there was a murder Sam said
“Did she tell you anything about the murder” Kelly wondered.
“No she only said there was a murder.” Sam said
Kelly went back to her office after confronting the guard because the detective Xavier Cooper has finally arrived. When Xavier arrived he asked Kelly “ Can I see Mike”
“Sure he is still in his room. You know where it is right.” said Kelley
“ Yes. Its still room 218” Xavier replied
Yes said Kelly.
Xavier walked up the stairs to the second floor and then walked to the 18th room and Kelly shut the door behind him. Xavier found his friend Mike shot I the back of the head with a 9mm bullet. Xavier knew it was a 9mm because it is a small powerful caliber round used in most handguns. So Xavier looks around the room for clues and he finds a code that was carved into the back of the door with a knife of some sort. Xavier called Kelly into the room and Xavier read the code out loud EGNN RJQPG. Kelly was confused at first. But Xavier knew exactly what it was. Xavier told Kelly that it was a simple substitution cipher code. So Xavier found a piece of paper and wrote down the alphabet, in lower case and then shifted the starting code down one letter then two then three
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B
D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z A B C D
After Xavier did that he rewrote out the code EGNN RJQPG then he matched up the letters. And came out with DFMM QIPOG he said that made no sense so he tried his second set of letters and it came out with CELL PHONE.
“CELL PHONE” blurted Kelly.
“Okay that’s a start” Said Xavier.
“Lets looks at mikes cell phone” Kelly said.
So Xavier looked at Mikes cell phone and he found nothing at first. So Xavier started going through his recent call and his texts. What Xavier found did not make sense to him but it was clear to Kelly because it was the same number that was on the Sam the guards phone. So Kelly wanted to go back to asking Sam more questions but Xavier stopper her because he didn’t want Kelly to make Sam fell blamed for the murder. Ok Xavier wanted to see if there was any more clues or any type of codes in room 218. So Kelly and Xavier started to tear the room apart and they found something very weird to both Kelly and Xavier. The found 15 cell phones under the floorboards in the back right corner of room 218 so they turned all of the cell phones on. And every cell phone had a code that had to be entered in the phone to you can access the main screen. Kelly and Xavier didn’t have time to try all the codes for every phone. So Xavier was mad and threw one against the wall and after it broke he found a code on the battery of the phone. So Kelly took all the backs of the phones off and the codes on the batteries were the access codes. After putting in every code Kelly and Xavier started looking through the calls and texts but they were nothing but just old cell phones. But in the last cell phone there was a message and it read RM NUM WPN at first they were like another message. But after Xavier looked at it for a few minutes he liked them up like a math problem.
RM
+NUM
WPN
“Room + Number = Weapon I got it ” Kelly screamed at the top of her lungs
Ok then Xavier started trying to figure out the math equation and he was stumped at first but then he started putting the codes on the back of the cell phones in the problem and what they found was the 56+246=302. So Xavier kept the three cell phones he thinks that there will be another part of the murder that will include the three cell phones. So he ended up getting “302”. So Kelly and Xavier ran as fast as they could up to the third floor room 302. What they had them speechless. They found the murder weapon on the dresser and something else on the bed. They found 9mm bullets with the case right next to them and they found a picture drawn with the bullets and it looked like 5!.
So Xavier screamed “FIVE FACTORIAL”
“What is Factorial “Kelly asked Xavier?
“A factorial is when a number with an exclamation mark after it and what you do if you multiply the number and every number before it all the way to zero” Xavier said
“So then it would be 5x4x3x2x1” Kelly said wit a smile on her face.
“YES” screamed Xavier you got it.
Xavier and Kelly were confused at first because what did 120 have to do with anything. So Kelly started going through all of the possibilities. At first Kelly thought it was the numbers of people at the Rehab center then she said There are only 92 patients here then she wanted to see how many actual people are on the actual Rehab center campus and it was 121 but Xavier that it would become 120 because Michael was dead. And then Xavier realized that there were 120 possible killers at the rehab center. So what Xavier had Kelly do is have her go in to her files and see who was working at the time of the murder because there will be a greater chance of the murder being someone working the time of the killing. So Kelly did and what she found was 3 cooks 2 guards 7 maids 2 landscapers. So then Xavier looked up all of the workers up to see if they have any previous criminal record so that Xavier and Kelly could interview them first to see what they were doing during the time of the murder. What Xavier came up with was disturbing. He found out that one of the cooks has been in jail for Assault with a Deadly weapon. So Xavier came to the conclusion that he had to be the murder but when he interviewed the cook he found out the cook was assaulted with a deadly weapon and he saw his family die by a guy with a knife and he was the only person in his family to survive.
So Kelly and Xavier wanted to check all of the workers cell phones of the employees who were working during the time of the killing.
“Kelly” shouted Xavier.
“What” said Kelly.
“You check the maids cell phones and ill check the guards cooks and the landscapers cell phones,” Xavier said with confidence because he thought that he find a clue.
“That sounds like s great idea” Kelly said.
Xavier was done checking all of the phones and he didn’t find anything. He went to find Kelly and she said, “ Look what I found Xavier.”
She found a picture of another clue and it looked a little weird to Kelly. But Xavier being Xavier thought he knew what it was. Kelly didn’t have a clue because it was a string of number, 11, 19, 36, and 60. Xavier took a few minutes to realize that it was a 2x2 matrix. After he solved the matrix he came out with CELL. He didn’t know what cell phone the code was talking about so they went through all of the cell phone it was talking about, they walked back to the room that Michael was murdered in. They did the only thing they haven’t done they looked through every pocket in Michaels dead body and they found a piece of paper that looked like it was written by a two year old. They thought this because how messy the handwriting was.
“ It was written by a lefty” Xavier said
“How do you know” Kelly asked
“ Because the letters are smugged to the right.” said Xavier
The was a note with a funky notation on it.
A*B A B/B x B = ?
5*10 = what
After doing the math Xavier got an answer of 50. After putting it all together he got something like this
50, CELL,120 , 302, CELL PHONE. Xavier was truly stumped for once he thought that since cell phone came up twice that it might be the most important. Then he wondered what 50 was. Then he said to Kelly “How many of the 120 people on campus are 50 years old.”
So Kelly looked through her records and found only 5 people :
The Guard Sam
A Cook
A Landscaper
A Maid
And Her
Since the guard came back Xavier went to ask the guard some questions. When he saw the guard he noticed that he had some ink on his right hand. And was about 5’10”. After going through his phone a gain Xavier noticed that if you called the other number that was in a lot of the other phones it was a second cell phone that the guard Sam had in his pocket. Xavier was confused at first and then he kept questioning Sam and all Sam said was “I plead the 5th”. So Xavier called the cops and they arrested Sam and took him to the police station. Xavier listened in when the cops questioned him and what Sam said was “ yes I did kill him, he had an affair with my wife. And I left all of the clues but I wasn’t expecting Kelly to call and one because I knew she didn’t want anyone of her patients to go back to jail.”
The next day Sam went to court and was sentenced to life in prison with no bail.
The End