Unsolved Crimes Top Quality

This is a game with much realism and practicality. Don't expect to decipher mysterious symbolic clues, play puzzle or maze games or place boiled eggs on fake bird nests to solve your cases. Those actions belong to fantasy detective games. In "Unsolved Crimes" you play a real life rookie detective in the NY Homicide Division.

Before hitting the crime scene you are given a training case, "Learning the Ropes". Graffiti was found in the alley behind the police building and there are 4 suspects. A briefing of the case is presented, you check the evidence, review the suspects profiles and their testimonies. Then you head to the alley to find more clues.

I almost did not get to play this game. At the alley, nothing I clicked had any relevance. The game was at a standstill until I decided to ignore the message, "There's trash everywhere" in one of the trash piles and insist on taking one closer look after another into the trash. With my insistence I found an appointment book hiding under it. This item was the clue to later solving the case.

After completing the training you are given the first homicide case. "Death in the Suburbs". Howard Loman, a 42 year old car salesman was stabbed to death in his home. His wife found him dead in the living room when she returned home from grocery shopping. She called the police There are 3 suspects: his wife, a man who owed Loman money and a thug that was found sneaking around the neighborhood. As initial evidence you have the murder weapon (a knife) and the grocery store receipt.

The second homicide case, "Dead Man's Hand" is about an apparent suicide. Police found the victim, Michael Snyder, sitting on a chair, dead, with a gun in his right hand. The bullet went through both his temples. There were 3 other people with him--friends of the victim from high school who belonged to the same baseball little league. It is not clear what they were doing in Snyder's apartment.

And so on for a total of 12 cases. Right now I have solved the first 5 cases and will be starting number 6, "House Search".

Basically in all the cases what you have to do is find relevant evidence at the crime scene and study the testimonies of the suspects comparing them against each other. Once you find who is not telling the truth by the inconsistencies of his story, you find the murderer.

The only exception to this pattern, up till now, is the third case. It is short and does not get solved completely. In this one you have to look fast at a car that is driving away and recall the license plate. Remembering correctly solves the case partially and allows you to start the fourth one. It looks like this third case will later be combined with one of the following to find its final solution.
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