How to find crime scene after in initial report?

[Duddin]

I was multi tasking when a murder happened. I heard the police scanner sound and saw the text pop up but didn't take note of where the murder happened. I figured I could see it somewhere else. When I went to look, I was unable to find this information anywhere.

tl;dr Where can you see where a location of a murder crime scene after it has already popped up?

[Kyle]

press f
click murder case at top of screen
should be one of the objectives, visit x crimescene, near where it says get a resolution form

[Duddin]

Originally posted by Kyle:

press f
click murder case at top of screen
should be one of the objectives, visit x crimescene, near where it says get a resolution form

I had an existing murder case open already. A second murder happened while the first was still open. No new case is showing, just the original board I was already working with. No new note dropped on the board saying the new murder location, and the tasks at the top right near the resolution form are just saying the normal form objectives. Nothing in those in those objectives say the new murder location.

[Sigmagor]

Same here. I don't know how to find the new crime scene when a case is already opened

[Zalugar]

Yeah, I noticed it disappears forever once you pick up a resolution form. Never had trouble finding the scene since I note it down, but I can see the problem.

[Darrin Reay]

Originally posted by Zikore:

Originally posted by Kyle:

press f
click murder case at top of screen
should be one of the objectives, visit x crimescene, near where it says get a resolution form

I had an existing murder case open already. A second murder happened while the first was still open. No new case is showing, just the original board I was already working with. No new note dropped on the board saying the new murder location, and the tasks at the top right near the resolution form are just saying the normal form objectives. Nothing in those in those objectives say the new murder location.

It's annoying but I had to just write it down in notes whenever a new crime scene appeared. Hopefully a quick patch sorts it out.

[Esca]

Sometimes multiple murders are part of the same case (i.e. done by the same person), so they don't open a new case tab. I have no idea how to locate the body in those cases if you didn't see it, though.

[Ghoul]

Try read a newspaper. They get updated every day or when something happens, in the article you can find where they live and who found them including additional info you may not have found yourself. Like my last case mentioned a toy car was at the scene which I never knew so I went back and found it and found a fingerprint belonging to killer

[Ghoul]

Oh and chance is the reason there ain't a new case is because you have a serial killer so it is all the same case.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Ghoul:

Try read a newspaper. They get updated every day or when something happens, in the article you can find where they live and who found them including additional info you may not have found yourself. Like my last case mentioned a toy car was at the scene which I never knew so I went back and found it and found a fingerprint belonging to killer

Not sure if it's a bug, but that didn't work for me.

I accidentally stumbled onto a murder scene while randomly breaking into an apartment to loot it.

Examining the body, they'd been dead for a bit over a day, but I'd never gotten a notification about a new murder, and I'd been buying newspapers daily since I finished the tutorial case, though there was never anything new (news kept talking about tutorial murder).

[Sigmagor]

Originally posted by Ghoul:

Try read a newspaper. They get updated every day or when something happens, in the article you can find where they live and who found them including additional info you may not have found yourself. Like my last case mentioned a toy car was at the scene which I never knew so I went back and found it and found a fingerprint belonging to killer

It worked! I was able to find the victim's name and the adresse! Great tip

[Ghoul]

Originally posted by Elegant Caveman:

Originally posted by Ghoul:

Try read a newspaper. They get updated every day or when something happens, in the article you can find where they live and who found them including additional info you may not have found yourself. Like my last case mentioned a toy car was at the scene which I never knew so I went back and found it and found a fingerprint belonging to killer

Not sure if it's a bug, but that didn't work for me.

I accidentally stumbled onto a murder scene while randomly breaking into an apartment to loot it.

Examining the body, they'd been dead for a bit over a day, but I'd never gotten a notification about a new murder, and I'd been buying newspapers daily since I finished the tutorial case, though there was never anything new (news kept talking about tutorial murder).

Now don't take this as official answer, but it might be a case of reason it didn't appear in papers is because apart from you nobody has found the body yet. So no one has reported it to police so news crew didn't know about it. Not sure if it changed for you yet, you could call the police on house phone of victims and wait for police to investigate house prompted papers

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Ghoul:

Now don't take this as official answer, but it might be a case of reason it didn't appear in papers is because apart from you nobody has found the body yet. So no one has reported it to police so news crew didn't know about it. Not sure if it changed for you yet, you could call the police on house phone of victims and wait for police to investigate house prompted papers

Could be.

All I'm saying is that just because it's not in the paper, that doesn't mean a murder hasn't been committed somewhere.

I guess if there was already a murder notification and OP missed it, though, that probably means someone did notice it, and it's likely to be in the paper.

What's different in my situation is that I never got a murder notification to begin with, so you might be right about the "nobody reported it" thing.

Interesting idea about calling the Enforcers to see what happens... I'll try that, thanks.

EDIT: Yup, you were right!

I called the enforcers, which immediately pinged me with a "there's been a new murder" notification (even though I was already on the case and I'm the one that reported it...).

Went home, bought a newspaper on the way, no changes yet (so it's not instant). Went to sleep for a while, bought a newspaper when I woke up, and it had changed to talk about the new murder.

The question, then, is are there any tricks to finding undiscovered murders other than by pure chance?

What makes people discover murders in the first place? For example, when the victim lives alone and they're murdered at home.

[Ghoul]

Originally posted by Elegant Caveman:

Originally posted by Ghoul:

Now don't take this as official answer, but it might be a case of reason it didn't appear in papers is because apart from you nobody has found the body yet. So no one has reported it to police so news crew didn't know about it. Not sure if it changed for you yet, you could call the police on house phone of victims and wait for police to investigate house prompted papers

Could be.

All I'm saying is that just because it's not in the paper, that doesn't mean a murder hasn't been committed somewhere.

I guess if there was already a murder notification and OP missed it, though, that probably means someone did notice it, and it's likely to be in the paper.

What's different in my situation is that I never got a murder notification to begin with, so you might be right about the "nobody reported it" thing.

Interesting idea about calling the Enforcers to see what happens... I'll try that, thanks.

EDIT: Yup, you were right!

I called the enforcers, which immediately pinged me with a "there's been a new murder" notification (even though I was already on the case and I'm the one that reported it...).

Went home, bought a newspaper on the way, no changes yet (so it's not instant). Went to sleep for a while, bought a newspaper when I woke up, and it had changed to talk about the new murder.

The question, then, is are there any tricks to finding undiscovered murders other than by pure chance?

What makes people discover murders in the first place? For example, when the victim lives alone and they're murdered at home.

I'm glad the idea of murder not being discovered yet worked, because that makes the game so much more interesting and in-depth to me. Imagine you're just doing little work stuff meanwhile someone out there has been dead for possibly 3 days because they're unemployed with no friends (Can confirm had a unemployed victim with no one seeming to be his friend as he had an empty contact book) that makes me feel so much more worried about who out there could kill someone any moment.

[Elegant Caveman]

Originally posted by Ghoul:

I'm glad the idea of murder not being discovered yet worked, because that makes the game so much more interesting and in-depth to me. Imagine you're just doing little work stuff meanwhile someone out there has been dead for possibly 3 days because they're unemployed with no friends (Can confirm had a unemployed victim with no one seeming to be his friend as he had an empty contact book) that makes me feel so much more worried about who out there could kill someone any moment.

Yup, the depth and level of detail in this game is really something.

How I found that undiscovered murder is crazy in itself...

I was on a simple vandalism job, trying to find my target. Had a picture, but little else, so I was showing it around, and a couple of people had reported seeing her around this building.

So I was asking people in the hallways if they knew her, nobody did. Decided to start knocking on some doors.

First door I knocked on, no answer... decided I might as well do a bit of breaking & entering & looting while I was at it, so I break in... and find the body.

If it wasn't for my casual greed, I'd have never found them.

After searching the apartment for clues, I knocked on the neighbor's door and asked her if she'd noticed anything strange recently... said she saw someone with a large build in the hallway the day before, around the time of the murder.

My vandalism target had a large build... so I showed her a picture, and once again, she said she saw that person the day before... around the time of the murder.

At this point, I started getting really excited, because that was an insane coincidence.

Searching the victim's office later (he was company head), I matched the picture with his receptionist, and yes, she was the murderer, and my vandalism victim.

The kicker? The murder victim was my employer for the vandalism job...

I guess there was bad blood between the two, he put out a job for someone to trash her house, but she killed him.

By insane sheer luck, I happened to break into his apartment and find the body... I didn't even know that was my employer. I only noticed that at the end, after having arrested the murderer and trashing her house, and it told me to turn it in... at the murder victim's address.

I don't know if this was just some absolutely epic luck/coincidence, or if there's some kind of mechanic behind the scenes that "tied" a random job to a murder that happened, hoping I'd find it, but nothing guaranteed I would have noticed anyway... I only found the body because I decided to break in.

Amusingly enough, I was able to turn in the vandalism job and get paid, even though my employer was already dead...

Whatever the case, at the end of the day, this was the most amazing "emergent gameplay" experience I've ever had in a game.