The MacNeill and Grant cases: sleeping pills and drowning in the bathtub
United States, 2001 and 2007
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.
In 2007, in Utah, Michele MacNeill was found dead in the bathtub at home days after cosmetic surgery. Her husband, a doctor, had pushed for the surgery and for the post-operative medication. The death was treated as an accident until her daughters pressed for an investigation; he was convicted of murder in 2013.
In 2001, in Arizona, Faylene Grant drowned in the bathtub with a dose of zolpidem in her system, a few days after changing her will; her husband was convicted of manslaughter in 2009.
Sources
In the game
Hot Water
Hraunvík Spa, on the Reykjanes peninsula, Iceland, 11:05 pm. Gunnar Hallsson, tourism tycoon and owner of the spa, was found drowned in the geothermal lagoon, closed to guests since 10 pm.
The game borrows the method: a spouse sedated with sleeping pills and drowned, in a death that passes for an accident. Characters, setting, motive and outcome are fiction.
