[UA] Help! Dumb PC investigated for kidnapping (Bi3P)

[christuschristus at cox.net]

I should mention that Sascha's body is currently nowhere to be found, having been disposed of before Bill got to his father's. I did this because to my thinking at the time, her body wasn't present at the crash, and I didn't think the players would keep investigating after the remaining Bill turned up dead. Now, I could have had her body in the Hyundai; at the crash, it's wedged in metal, unseen. It would have ended mystery of missing little girl when Bill's father found it in the car.

Don and the dead policemen are only traceable to the PCs if they are identified as being at the scene; the authorities do not know that Bill or his daughter had anything to do with the massacre.

And I've erased the other Bills from reality. The holdup happened, sans Bill. The cult never existed in the first place.

The police, however, are investigating the death of the second Bill Toge. He was stabbed multiple times, apparently in Yuba from the state of his apartment. Right now, there is a potential link with Jason, since he went to Bill's father and ex.

I've thought of having the FBI find Jason's double. The original Jason is a street performer, who doesn't own much of anything or have a conventional life. My plan is to have his double become convinced that he is the real one; he's not a loser and vagabond. He understands finance, the good life, yadda yadda. He *is* getting credit cards and bank accounts. So, would a routine investigation check credit reports?  

Jason's problem is that he's stuck his nose into Bill's "murder" and Sascha's kidnapping. He's asked weird questions, lied about talking to the authorities, and led a grieving family to think that he knows something about where the missing Sascha is. If nothing else, the authorities are going to want to know why, and I imagine he could be charged with obstructing an investigation, if nothing else. 

> From: RFD <sithriel at earthlink.net>
> 
> The FBI would trace the phone number, question Jason about the events.
> If he's cooperative and his story checks with the known facts, it will
> stop there.
> 
> But... there are other things here. Firstly, there are the two missing
> cops, Sascha and Don's corpses and the dead Bill Toge at his father's.
> Plus, depending on how the third scenario finished, there may be a Bill
> Toge also in custody who was known to have been hundreds of miles away
> in New Mexico at the time... Now there is one thing you need to know
> about law enforcement: they have LOTS of available man-hours to check
> things like this out and with modern computers cross referencing stuff
> is easy.
> 
> So, if the FBI are following up on a kidnapping lead, they question him
> informally. If they are looking at two dead cops and a dead kid, they
> will probably be a bit more emphatic, but again, cooperation and a good
> story and the PC is probably fine. If they are able to cross check with
> Bill-3, they are going to be less understanding.
> 
> Now, if you REALLY want things to go weird, have the FBI get in touch
> with Jason's evil twin instead of him...
> 
> Some other fun evil-twin stuff would involve the whole identity theft
> deal, except the signatures would check out. Sorry sir, your account was
> closed yesterday...