The suspects
EV
Elena Vasquez
Age 38
Graduate Student / Research Assistant
Motive: Aldercroft discovered her thesis plagiarised his unpublished manuscript
MA
Marcus Aldercroft
Age 45
Estranged Son
Motive: Cut from $2.1M will two weeks prior
HF
Dr. Helen Frost
Age 55
Senior Colleague / Department Chair
Motive: Aldercroft blocked her journal publication for 3 years
Case file excerpt
VICTIMProf. William Aldercroft, 71 — retired Dean of Sciences, MIT
FOUNDNovember 8, 2021, 10:20 PM — collapsed at farewell dinner, Whitmore Hall
LOCATIONFaculty dining room, MIT campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts
INITIAL RULINGCardiac event — not investigated