Jojo
15-03-2006, 00:58
Christy Vollmer is every parent's dream child: a 4.0 GPA, homecoming queen, future Harvard student. So when her body is found in the football field of her high school, bleeding from the head, everyone is shocked – but the surprises are evidently only beginning when two of her classmates, siblings Marlon and Hannah Beck, each confess to the murder.
When 12-year-old Hannah comes forth with her confession everyone, including the CSIs, is skeptical. Barely able to hold her own weight, Hannah is a good-natured kid genius who spends most of her time reading or hanging out with her teachers. Physically, it seems impossible that Hannah could've killed her classmate, but Hannah had the perfect motive to kill Christy – she was teased every day by the older student. Christy's last prank, according to Hannah, was especially cruel and was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Hannah was tutoring Christy's boyfriend, Scott, who she liked. Judging from his gentle treatment of Hannah, she thought he liked her back, despite being four years her senior. To supposedly bury the hatchet between the two girls, Christy made Scott gave Hannah a beautiful dress she could wear to the school's spring dance. Hannah wore her dress proudly, but when she showed up to the dance the lights from the room revealed a series of nasty insults written on Hannah's dress with invisible ink. To get back at Christy, Hannah filled one of the showerheads at the school's locker room with sodium and elaborated an intricate plan that got Christy under the showerhead. But Hannah miscalculated her plan, and when the showerhead exploded Christy ran out of the locker room screaming. When she spotted Hannah spying on her, Hannah knew she had to make sure Christy wouldn't talk. Hannah's detailed confession is perfect, if it weren't for the fact that...
In another room, Marlon is telling almost the same story. A loner kid living in his young sister's shadow, Marlon claimed he killed Christy to make Hannah's life easier. The problem with Marlon's confession seems clear, though: while he had the brawns, Marlon doesn't appear to be smart enough to conduct such an intricate murder. But that doesn't stop him from insisting he is, in fact, the murderer. Marlon claims he stole the sodium from the lab and learned about the experiment from Hannah's books. He apparently killed Christy to protect Hannah, but Hannah claims she killed Christy to protect Marlon. Which one is telling the truth?
If Hannah is the murderer, the evidence is doing little to support her claims. Much shorter than the rest of her classmates, it would've taken a great amount of effort for Hannah to drag Christy's body across the football field. But Hannah easily provides an answer to that dilemma: she used a cart to transport Christy's body. For every question that the CSIs come up with Hannah is there with a clever response. Sara and Sofia believe Hannah is lying, but with an IQ much higher than theirs, Hannah's manipulations might in this case render the evidence useless.
When 12-year-old Hannah comes forth with her confession everyone, including the CSIs, is skeptical. Barely able to hold her own weight, Hannah is a good-natured kid genius who spends most of her time reading or hanging out with her teachers. Physically, it seems impossible that Hannah could've killed her classmate, but Hannah had the perfect motive to kill Christy – she was teased every day by the older student. Christy's last prank, according to Hannah, was especially cruel and was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Hannah was tutoring Christy's boyfriend, Scott, who she liked. Judging from his gentle treatment of Hannah, she thought he liked her back, despite being four years her senior. To supposedly bury the hatchet between the two girls, Christy made Scott gave Hannah a beautiful dress she could wear to the school's spring dance. Hannah wore her dress proudly, but when she showed up to the dance the lights from the room revealed a series of nasty insults written on Hannah's dress with invisible ink. To get back at Christy, Hannah filled one of the showerheads at the school's locker room with sodium and elaborated an intricate plan that got Christy under the showerhead. But Hannah miscalculated her plan, and when the showerhead exploded Christy ran out of the locker room screaming. When she spotted Hannah spying on her, Hannah knew she had to make sure Christy wouldn't talk. Hannah's detailed confession is perfect, if it weren't for the fact that...
In another room, Marlon is telling almost the same story. A loner kid living in his young sister's shadow, Marlon claimed he killed Christy to make Hannah's life easier. The problem with Marlon's confession seems clear, though: while he had the brawns, Marlon doesn't appear to be smart enough to conduct such an intricate murder. But that doesn't stop him from insisting he is, in fact, the murderer. Marlon claims he stole the sodium from the lab and learned about the experiment from Hannah's books. He apparently killed Christy to protect Hannah, but Hannah claims she killed Christy to protect Marlon. Which one is telling the truth?
If Hannah is the murderer, the evidence is doing little to support her claims. Much shorter than the rest of her classmates, it would've taken a great amount of effort for Hannah to drag Christy's body across the football field. But Hannah easily provides an answer to that dilemma: she used a cart to transport Christy's body. For every question that the CSIs come up with Hannah is there with a clever response. Sara and Sofia believe Hannah is lying, but with an IQ much higher than theirs, Hannah's manipulations might in this case render the evidence useless.