UNDER INVESTIGATION: NYPD

 Christopher Provencher

 Kim Kaye Rocamora

 Miles Sandford

 Madeline Zomer

For this project in Multimedia Storytelling, we were put into investigative groups and given a box of evidence. Inside the box, there were various objects such as a doll, photographs, an autograph book, and many more. After examining the contents of the box, we photographed the evidence and documented it in a Mind Map while discussing how these items related to each other. Through our investigation, these clues have become very important in the creation of our story.

This story seeks to answer who did it and why the mysterious crime was committed while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious family.

HYPOTHESIS

Age - 29

Physical traits - Straight, brown hair, short, fat, fair skin

Character traits - lonely, angry, vengeful

Age - 64

Physical Traits - tall, thin man with glasses, bald with gray patches of hair, fair skin  

Character Traits - strict, authoritative, smothering, self-absorbed  

Age - 26

Physical traits - Curly, brown hair, tall, thin, fair skin

Character traits - family person, friendly, sentimental

Age - 18

Physical Traits - Curly, blonde hair, tall, thin, fair skin   

Character Traits - positive, motivational, open to others  

Age: 48 (deceased)

Physical Traits - Tall, thin woman, fair skin, blonde hair

Character Traits - Loving, caring, kind, generous, forgiving

Age - 59

Physical Traits - Short, brown hair, tan skin, think curvy figure

Character Traits - Quiet, timid, lonely

- Peter lured father to Nancy’s house, then hung father in tree in Nancy’s front yard and tried to frame Nancy

In the small town of Kennebunkport, Maine, on a cloudy Tuesday in 1946, a body hangs limp from a tree with a rope around his neck. It’s Clarence, the father of Peter, Nancy, and Agatha, and is a respected member of Kennebunkport’s community.

Clarence’s cold body hangs from a maple tree in front of his daughter, Nancy’s house. 

At first glance, the death appears to be suicide, but as one searches the scene, one might suspect Nancy.

In the first few years of their marriage, Clarence and Annabeth are unable to have children. After a fight, Clarence leaves for a few days. Out of his anger, Clarence looks for a remedy and falls into the arms of another woman, Paige. Clarence regrets his actions but now must deal with the consequences because Paige is pregnant. Paige gives birth but Clarence takes Peter from her and threatens her to leave and never come back. Clarence wants to keep Peter because Annabeth has been unable to get pregnant. Annabeth, a loving soul, lets Peter into her home and takes him as her own. From this moment on, Clarence vows to be righteous and make up for past mistakes. He seeks redemption through devotion to the church. In a religion that promotes freedom, Clarence instead delves into a life of strict, cult-like rules in hopes of forgetting his past.

Annabeth gives birth to two baby girls and Clarence's sees them as children out of love and now views Peter as a child out of mistakes. Peter has now become the reminder of Clarence’s past.

Going back into the children’s early years, Peter, Nancy, and Agatha live under the dark cloud of Clarence’s overpowering reputation. Clarence and his wife, Annabeth, uphold a high respect not only throughout the town, but specifically in the religious community.

Throughout all of his life, Peter is rejected by his father as Nancy and Agatha receive abounding love and affection from Clarence. Clarence brings his girls on many trips and showers them with gifts from all over the world. Annabeth begins to feel distanced from Clarence had he puts his own reputation and religious appearance over her well being. Clarence divorces her and fights for custody of the two girls, but wants leaves Peter to his mother out of rejection. Later, Annabeth falls ill to cancer at 48 and passes away at 49. Peter, now 17, experiences extreme loneliness as his mother was his only source of acceptance.

Fast forwarding through their early adulthood, Nancy is secretly seeing Stanley, because Clarence disapproves of him. To Clarence, Stanley is an unholy choice for Nancy, his perfect daughter. Peter learns that Nancy is still seeing Stanley behind Clarence’s back and sees this as an opportunity. Peter has lived a life of rejection from his father and has been jealous of his sisters since he was young. If Clarence was to find out that Nancy was still with Stanley, it would shatter his perfect world.

While searching in his parents’ house, Peter finds startling information. Peter’s intention was to find old pictures of Clarence, Nancy, and Agatha to destroy out of jealousy, but instead he comes across a piece of paper that matches the rips from Clarence’s autograph book. The paper contains a note written for a certain Paige, sharing information about her son and Clarence and her agreement for Paige to stay away from the family. Peter realizes that his name is on the note and that this reveals his real mother was not actually Annabeth, but Paige, a woman Clarence had an affair with years before.

With this new knowledge, Peter is filled with rage. He has not only been rejected by his father but has been lied to about who his mother is.

Upstairs, Peter explains to Clarence that there is something important he must share with him, but only at Nancy’s house. Peter thought that Nancy was at home this moment with Stanley, meaning he could expose them to his father. At Nancy’s Peter is distraught to realize that Nancy is no longer there. Clarence is confused with the purpose of the visit, so Peter attempts to tell him of Nancy’s secret relationship. Clarence refuses to except this news, calling Peter a lier and physically abusing him. Filled with anger, Peter questions Clarence about Paige, his real mom. When Clarence also refuses to admit to this, Peter explodes. He grabs a candlestick on the bookshelf and strikes Clarence across the head, knocking him out on the floor. In Nancy’s basement, Peter finds a rope and drags Clarence to the front yard. Clarence wakes up as Peter ties the rope around his neck and hoists him over a tree branch. Now awake, Clarence is strangled to death. Peter leaves him at Nancy’s house in hopes to frame her.

Hours later, Nancy arrives home to the scene of the crime, screaming in fear as she encounters her dead father. Rushing inside, she finds Peter, huddled in a corner, with blood on his hands. At the sight of her, Peter pounces on her, attempting to strangle Nancy. In their struggle, Nancy reaches on the floor to the bloody candlestick and repeatedly strikes Peter on the head until he is no longer breathing.

The police arrive on seen after a tip from a neighbour to find Clarence’s body still hanging outside and Peter’s body dead on the floor of the kitchen. Nancy has fled the scene.

Date of Birth: April 5th, 1917

Place of Birth: Kennebunkport, Maine, USA

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Occupation: Unemployed

Height: 1.47 metres

Weight: 99 kg

Skin Colour: Fair

Hair Colour: Brown

Bio:

Peter Zielk was born to Paige Zielk and Clarence Kowalski, as a means of Clarence having children due to his current wife, Annabeth, being unable to have children. While Paige did give birth to Peter, Clarence took him from Paige and never returned to her, wanting to keep him so that he and Annabeth may finally have a child. However, while Annabeth welcomed Peter with open arms, Clarence saw Peter as a reminder of his past mistakes. Later, as life went on for Peter, he began to feel isolated and ignored as Clarence showed a bigger amount of affection for his daughters, Nancy and Agatha, who were born after Annabeth was able to have children. Moreover, when Clarence and Nancy divorced, Clarence won custody of the two girls while Annabeth won custody of Peter. And eventually, Annabeth succumbed to cancer at age 49, leaving Peter completely alone and isolated, as his father wanted nothing to do with him, as well as the fact that his mother (or so it was) was his only source of love and affection. In fact, he became unemployed due to father refusing to help him find a job. Eventually, the unemployed Peter lost the home he and mother lived due to the financial ruin he himself lived in. Soon, Peter became enraged, and blamed the entire ordeal on his father. So, as revenge, Peter snuck into Clarence’s home, seeking to destroy photos or Clarence, Agatha, and Nancy together, as he had grown jealous to Clarence’s love for them, which in turn made him feel alone and unloved by his father. However, while scavenging for old photos, he stumbled upon a note containing information about Paige, his real mother! Angered that he has been lied to, Peter sets out to expose Nancy about her secret affair with her boyfriend Stanley, whom Clarence disapproves of. So, Peter lured Clarence to Nancy’s house to tell him about it, hoping to hang Clarence to his death and frame Nancy for the crime. And as a matter of fact, Peter’s plan to kill the father who hated him fell through, but he wasn’t able to successfully frame Nancy; Nancy killed him before he could go through with pinning the death on her.           

Date of Birth: March 30th, 1920

Place of Birth: Place of Birth: Kennebunkport, Maine, USA

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Occupation: Saleswoman   

Height: 1.54 metres

Weight: 52 kg

Skin Colour: Fair

Hair Colour: Brown

Bio:

Nancy Kowalski was born to Clarence Kowalski and Annabeth Lewis, three years after Peter was born. For most of her life, she lived a pretty happy life, mainly because her parents (especially Clarence) showered her with as much love as possible. This is especially in contrast to how her father treated Peter, but she never really showed that much concern to how Peter was treated. All she cared about was how well she and her family were doing. During her life, the family would go on travel around the world to many places, such as South Carolina. In addition, Clarence showered her and her younger sister, Agatha, with many gifts they would receive during their trips, mainly as souvenirs. Eventually, Nancy and Agatha remained with their father after he and Annabeth divorced. As life went on for Nancy, she met Stanley while attending University of South Maine, falling in love with her bad-boy personality and muscular frame. However, Clarence disapproved of their relationship, forbidding Nancy from seeing him. Nonetheless, Nancy still vowed to see him without her father’s knowledge. After graduating from university, Nancy became a saleswoman, going around houses to promote and sell products. However, she worked long hours, meaning she was out of the house for a long time. This ultimately proved to be Peter’s opportunity to lure Clarence to her house so that he may murder his father while framing Nancy for it. Once Nancy returned home from work, she was horrified to see her father’s corpse hanging from a tree. But before Peter was able to murder her as well, she managed to gain the upper hand and kill Peter by smacking him on the head with a candle - and repeatedly to boot. Eventually realizing that she would get caught by the authorities, she fled her house, bound for parts unknown.            

Date of Birth: August 16, 1928

Place of Birth: Place of Birth: Kennebunkport, Maine, USA

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Occupation: Student

Height: 5’4 ft

Weight: 50 kg

Skin Colour: Fair

Hair Colour: Blonde

Agatha Kowalski was born to Clarence Kowalski and Annabeth Lewis. She is the youngest amongst her siblings, has curly blonde hair, tall, petite, and has fair skin. Ever since, Agatha received a lot of care and affection from her parents, especially from her dad, Clarence. From gifts to family trips, it was a perfect childhood for her. She was young, so blind from reality that she never noticed the unfair treatment that his dad is doing to her older brother, Peter. She grew up having a positive mindset because she has wonderful parents that take care of her and her siblings. As she moves on to high school, she became a motivational and approachable person. Agatha then left their house to continue her studies and stayed in a college dormitory for awhile, and never knew about what happened to the incident.