Crime Scene (Elements)

This is the building where the murder happened. Surprisingly few details about the building, including its name, have been given.

Usage
The building is host to the brain imaging lab and some offices. According to Fulbright, the moated area is usually abandoned after around 7PM, and it was surprising not that the body was found only hours after, but that it was found before the next day.

Crime Scene Discovery
The crime scene was discovered by two security guards, after it was discovered that Ms. Kranf still hadn't left at midnight. A pair of guards stumbled across the scene together. One called the police, and the other radioed backup to let them know about the find. Police investigated the crime scene for evidence of tampering from those two, and questioned them, but found nothing raising suspicion.

Forensic Considerations
Fulbright fingerprinted the elevator and reported that aside from unusable fingerprints and prints of people with no connection to the case, the only fingerprints on the elevator buttons belong to Nick Johnson, Alexandra Kranf, and Ross Moebus! Ross's prints and Alexandra's are on all the floors, and Johnson's are only on the fourth floor, where his office is, and the ground floor.

The red outline represents flowers surrounding the moat. No flowers were found disturbed, making it unlikely to impossible that the body was dragged in through the moat, meaning the murder took place on the island.

Alexandra Kranf's tablet was found on the scene about a foot away from her body, as shown in the detective's photograph of the crime scene. The footprints around the body, though heavy, were too smeared to make out clearly, but there were signs that the body had been searched - the pockets were turned inside-out and the victim's purse had been emptied onto the ground.

Miscellaneous Crime Scene Details

 * The building is six stories high. According to Fulbright, it would have been plausible to have seen the body from that height, but not-so-plausible to have heard anything down below.
 * On page 42, Riemowski and Smiles both state that there are no clocks outside, but that it wouldn't be a problem to find one indoors.