Extra Edition
Cases unlock in order, like levels. This is case 17 of 100.
Newsroom of the New York Sentinel, Park Row, Manhattan, September 23, 1952, 11:50 pm. The night watchman found Frank Delaney, investigative reporter, dead in the basement archive.
A single shot, around 11:38 pm. No one heard it: at 11:30 pm the presses started running the extra edition with Marciano's victory, and the whole building was shaking.
At 9:00 pm, Frank had a shouting match with the pressroom foreman for delaying the edition. No revolver was found in the building.
Three people were in the building and knew where Frank was working. One of them went down to the basement.
The news meeting room, fifth floor, overflowing ashtrays, the floor shaking with the presses.
Suspects
Loretta VanceStaff photographer, 29
Salvatore BrancatoPressroom foreman, 55
Warren AshbyEditor-in-chief of the Sentinel, 58
The real case
The murder of reporter Don Bolles
Phoenix, United States, 1976
This case is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events in the game do not portray real people. The account below is a factual summary, based on public sources, of the case that served as inspiration.
Don Bolles was an investigative reporter for the Arizona Republic who covered land fraud and organized crime. On 2 June 1976, a bomb exploded under his car in the parking lot of a Phoenix hotel, where he had gone to meet a source who never showed up. He died eleven days later.
The man who planted the bomb confessed and named who had hired him; two men accused of ordering the killing were tried over the course of two decades. In response to the crime, dozens of journalists from across the country went to Arizona to finish Bolles's reporting, in what became known as the Arizona Project.
The game borrows the figure of the reporter killed for uncovering corruption. The 1952 setting, the characters and the outcome are fiction.
Sources
Case glossary
Words from this case you might not know.
- Park Row
- A street in Lower Manhattan once called Newspaper Row, home to many of New York's big newspapers.
- Marciano
- Rocky Marciano, American boxer who won the world heavyweight title in September 1952 and retired unbeaten.