Chromaville Cold Case Answers

Bob Gold had been watering down his beer and vodka, and David knew it - David was voted the nation's best beer taster after all. David confronted Bob over this on the night of his death, and this was witnessed by all who were there. However, Bob was cashing up at the time of the murder. The time on the “Cashing Up Summary” was 23:42, the same time as the murder.

Ryan Pink and Sandra Gold had been having an affair. Both believed David knew about the affair and were worried David would inform Bob in one way or another.

David knew that Ryan had been having women come back to his new hot tub. The threatening note was from Ryan, which - having been spied on with a drone while in a Hot Tub - was probably fair.

Sandra Gold left the pub but instead of heading to her shop (note that she didn't call the security company as she had claimed) she headed to Ryan’s. Ryan and David’s phone numbers are very similar so when Sandra got a new phone she entered the wrong number and inadvertently sent text messages to David rather than Ryan. As we can see from these messages, Sandra and Ryan met up on Friday the 6th. David writes in his diary that he saw an extra car in Ryan’s drive, and spied on them with his drone at 23:35. Sandra’s texts also mention that they were planning to meet up for another dip in the hot tub “at the same time next week.” This means that they would have been ‘otherwise engaged’ at the time of the murder.

The Rev. Catherine White did leave the Pub but she didn’t head home. She phoned Kev and headed to the Hospital to buy drugs that are very strong. She was in financial trouble and had been stealing £40 a week from the collection plate. This money was going straight to Kev and into his bank account! We can see the cash amounts Cate deposits into the church from the collection in the church’s financial statements. This amount - when added to the cash amount Kevin deposits each week - adds up to David’s ‘Imp Imp’ (Imperial Impression) amount in his diary each week - this would have been the total amount on the collection plate before Cate took the £40.

Kev said he saw Cate but didn’t see her leave the hospital.

The morse code note reads: “cate was admitted again on friday and stayed overnight she has been taking some really strong stuff she needs help your friend greta”. This added to Greta Bronze’s witness statement that Rev. White entered the hospital at 10:30 pm, and was not in a good way, so she had to stay overnight (again). It may have appeared that Cate was going to the hospital in order to comfort other people who are at ‘death’s door,’ when in fact it was her that was admitted as an inpatient.

The murder weapon was the blue wax candle stolen from the church. Blue wax was found at the scene. The only item listed by Cate in her letter to David that was not recovered - and therefore not listed in the police report - was the ‘blue eternity candle’. This is what was used to inflict a blow to David’s head, killing him.

Kevin Crimson was worried that David was on to him dealing drugs in Chromaville after reading that he specialised in catching international narcotics criminals. However, those days were truly behind David. David did confront Kevin on Friday night, possibly to ask him not to sell drugs by the pub as he didn’t enjoy the clientele it attracted.

The leaflet shows that the featured car at the Car Show is Kevin’s car - the number plate matches the one in his statement. The letter from Cate states that the Church was robbed between 13:00-13:30, and meanwhile the Great Troven Annual Car Show was taking place between 12:00-16:00. Kevin couldn’t have stolen the candle as he was at the car show all day, and therefore could not have committed the crime.

Kev had been calling his girlfriend in Russia, and the receipt that was found for a Russian Phrasebook was his. David found this receipt in the car park after his Hospital appointment.

John Green was using bleach to create more work for his gardening business. David realised this and started to investigate, conducted a litmus test of the soil, unveiling that the soil was indeed of a very high (alkaline) pH - similar to that of bleach - and eventually confronted John via the emails. However, David’s investigation into John led John to believe that David knew he was concealing something far more sinister: that he was a Russian spy who had been planted by Moscow in Chromaville to report back on the goings-on of the sleepy army town.

In their emails, John asks to use David’s hose that is located in his shed. Between John’s first and second visit David found a detailed map of Chromaville - that John dropped. Digging at one ‘x’ on the map David found a radio with Russian writing on it and put it in his shed. On John’s second visit, he asked to use the hose again, entered the shed, saw the radio, and assumed David was on him. He decided to kill David, and so robbed the church, discarded the unwanted items, and then killed him on Friday night with the blue candle - he was always a fan of Cluedo.

Following the murder, he called Kevin to buy some drugs to ‘knock him out’ (gardening and killing is hard work), and also to provide himself with an alibi - although a very loose one, as the call was made on a mobile, and he could have been anywhere.

John was also annoyed at Bob for watering down the vodka, but that’s a story for another day...