Either Michael Altman was a lucky fluke or Belarus was a poor move. Which definitely rules you out, considering you of all people would know how "nations" systems work.
Still, someone played their cards right in the end, but maybe not enough to show them down the path of an excellent fortune...
...There was certainly a struggle in the room. Given Belarus's habit of carrying knives, I'm surprised the clothing the killer wore was entirely intact, really.
...Then perhaps they didn't intend to at the beginning. Perhaps they wanted all of the parts to be burned and dismembered her to accomplish the job more easily.
[ Rapture can't help but listening in on this conversation and try not to lose it. She is sitting on the piano doing her best trying not to laugh too loud, but knowing Rapture and her sense of humor... ]
O-oh,, ah, it's a good thing you'll be able to control it. I won't ask you to take them off until we've decided what we should be checking for so you aren't asked to do so a second time.
[Though Gundam is second only to Latvia on Lithuania's mental list of least-likely-to-have-committed-this-crime, so he's not too worried either way.]
[ She smirks though, it's all in good fun. She just likes gloating. ]
Maybe that was their one mistake: thinking they could burn her body by the fence alone, but had their plans ruined by the fact that there wasn't enough power or time to be rid of it that way.
Think about how the culprit acted and how she played along with the storyline. Siren's performance was the most important part of it all, it's how she was figured out.
What do you think you're doing, you rude little pipsqueak boy! How dare you unclothe yourself in a lady's presence?! Miss Susan, avert your eyes at once!
[ Goodness, does she have to explain everything? Rapture just holds back a sigh and feigns indifference instead. ]
Many people didn't think it would be Siren either, but she nearly fooled a bunch of people into thinking that she was horrified at the notion that Dave Strider was perhaps going to come after her. She even blatantly lied to Susan about how her hair powers worked.
When it was narrowed down to her and Altman being the killers, her only fault was Altman's reaction to holding the body.
Alice is highly trained and, despite her sympathy toward Annie, it doesn't make her any less suspicious. She's militant, thorough, but she still has the skills. It wasn't exactly the cleanest kill that would come from someone like her, but to me, she could still be considered an affable culprit.
Touko, on the other hand... surely, one might thing she isn't so dumb to leave her cigarette ash by the crime scene, right? Well, maybe she was stressed. Maybe it turned out that what she thought was going to turn out, didn't. What do smokers do when they're feeling stressed?
[He doesn't want to admit it but she did have a point. Putting the ash there to frame her just didn't make any sense when it could be easily blown away outside]
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