Book One Project: House Rules

“House Rules”

This book is filled with crime scenes and mysteries that leave you on the edge of your seat. We would set open the crime scenes just like the ones in the book to see if anyone could figure them out.

Case One:

You walk in a house and there are signs of struggle everywhere. A stake of mail is knocked on the kitchen floor along with an overturned stool. The phone was off the table and the battery pack hanging loose. A single faded foot print was at the entrance of the living room in the direction of the dead body. The body is in front of the fireplace with blood on his temples and hands.

Explanation: ‘“There was a confrontation in the kitchen,” Jacob explained. “It ended with the phone being thrown in defense, and me being chased into the living room, where Theo clocked me.” (4).

Case Two:

A jogger found a dead body on the side of the road ejected from the car. The road was covered with ice and snow. The body is male. When found lying on his back with his pants was pulled down around his ankles but his underwear still pulled up. There was blood all over his body. Only footprints from the jogger are around the crime scene but he was ruled out as a suspect.

Explanation: “On episode twenty-six of Season Two, the whole Crimebusters team got hauled up to Mount Washington to investigate a naked guy who was found at the summit. No one could figure out what a naked guy was doing on top of a mountain, but it turned out to be hypothermia. The same thing happened to this man” Jacob explained to the officer.

Case Three:

Jess Ogilvy when missing for three days before her body was found outside her home, wrapped in a blanket fully clothed. After autopsy it was found that Jess had a broken nose and a crashed skull also with a missing tooth. Jess’s boyfriend, Mark was the person who reported her missing. The last person the as admitted to seeing her was Theo Hunt after sneaking into her house not knowing she was there. Jacob Hunt was supposed to meet her at her house the day she went missing but no one knows if he saw her. It is though that she wasn’t killed at the location the body was found. Mark was taken in as a suspect after finding her foot prints in the scene but was later released after there was solid evidence that Jacob Hunt was the murder. But is Jacob actually responsible for this crime?

Explanation: Theo thought the house was empty so he went in expecting an empty house but when he when upstairs he found Jess getting out of the shower. “Ogilvy reached for a towel and exited the stall, but she struggled to her feet again, Theo Hunt ran—overturning the CD rack, several stools, and the mail on the counter during his speedy exit” explained in the final verdict. Then Jacob just hours later arrived at the house for his tutoring session to find Jess lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom. She tried to run after Theo but slipped and fell in the bathroom crashing her skull and breaking her nose. Later we find that “Jacob proceeded to alter the crime scene so that it would point away from Theo. He cleaned up and dressed the body and moved it downstairs.” Jacob struggled moving her body so in the process he knocked out her tooth. This was all for his brother. Although it wasn’t right to do this Jacob said, “I’d do it all over again.”

The idea would work because you get to experience what the main character, Jacob had to go through. Also Jacob is very hard to relate to so this makes him more interesting and personable. The crime scenes would be exactly like the book. This would give you a visual to help you understand the book more. Also we could set up scenes that aren’t in the book as well so that the readers that have read the book would come as well. Since Jacob is autistic it’s hard to put yourself in his shoes so we could walk you through what Jacob would be thinking at each point in the investigation.