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Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me
Start	Lieutenant Horatio Laine
End	Lieutenant Horatio Laine
Level	11
Category	Westfall
Experience	1100
Reputation	+250 Stormwind
Rewards	[Scene Investigator's Wrap] or [Crime Scene Tape] or [Equicide Cloak] 4
Previous	Hero's Call: Westfall!, Furlbrow's Deed
Next	Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan, Hot On the Trail: Murlocs

Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me
Level: 11
Lieutenant Horatio Laine
Lieutenant Horatio Laine
XP: 1100
Rewards:
[Scene Investigator's Wrap] or [Crime Scene Tape] or [Equicide Cloak]
4

Objectives Edit

Speak to the various homeless people occupying the Jansen Stead to gather clues about the Furlbrow murders.

• Clue #1 obtained
• Clue #2 obtained
• Clue #3 obtained
• Clue #4 obtained

Description Edit

Here's the deal, kid, we've got a full-blown murder on our hands. Double homicide... Single horse... icide.

Worse yet, we're in Westfall. I could throw a rock behind me and hit a dozen hobos with enough motive to want to wipe these people (and horse) out.

Now I don't know who did this and I sure don't appreciate having to come to this dump to investigate the deaths of a couple of quatters, but I'll be damned if I don't find the perp. You want to help? Go talk to some bums. The hobo... knows.

Rewards Edit

You will be able to choose one of these rewards

	[Scene Investigator's Wrap]		[Crime Scene Tape]
	[Equicide Cloak]

You will also receive: 4

Progress Edit

Anything yet?

Completion Edit

Gnolls and murlocs? Horse poopy, pal! Gnolls and murlocs didn't kill these people. I've seen what gnolls and murlocs do to people that they kill and this... isn't it. Too pretty. Too... perfect.

Furthermore, the Furlbrow's had been squatting on this farm for 5 years. No, whoever wiped them out had a reason. This is murder, plain and simple and we're gonna get to the bottom if it...

Notes Edit

Both of the previous breadcrumb quests are optional as Laine will offer this without any prereqs.

Homeless Stormwind Citizens and West Plains Drifters are milling about the Jansen Stead.

• I ain't tellin' you nothin'
• Oh the big hero has arrived. I'm saved! Yea, right...
• You wanna talk? Pay up.
• Whaddya want?
• Get lost.

Players have the option of choosing to ask for information without bribing, or bribing for it. The former option most of the time will just turn the the hobos hostile.

• I ain't tellin' you a damn thing!
• You rich punks are all the same!
• Now you've gone and done it! TIME FOR THE FIST!

However, bribing may not always work either...

• You can't buy me! DIE!

If the player picked the right choice, whichever it was...

1. Listen, pal. I don't want any trouble, ok? I didn't see who murdered 'em, but I sure heard it! Lots of yelling. Human voices... you dig? Now get out of here before I change my mind about beating you up and takin' your shoes.
2. I didn't see who killed 'm, <bub/sis>, but I got a whiff. Smelled rich, kinda like you. Damn shame too. Furlbrows were a fixture around here. Nice people, always willin' to share a meal or a patch of dirt.
3. Who killed the Furlbrows? I'll tell you who killed the Furlbrows: KING VARIAN WRYNN. THAT'S WHO! And he's killin' the rest of us too. Once bum at a time. The only thing I can tell you is that I saw some gnolls leavin' the place a few hours before the law arrived.
4. Between you, mea, and the tree, murlocs killed the Furlbrows. Yep, saw 'em with my own two eyes. Think they'd been casin' the joint for days, maybe months. They left in a hurry once they got wind of "Johnny Law" and the idiot brigade over there...

Quest progressionEdit

Optional lead-ins: Furlbrow's Deed, Hero's Call: Westfall!

1.  [11] Murder Was The Case That They Gave Me
2.  [11] Hot On the Trail: Murlocs /  [10] Hot On the Trail: The Riverpaw Clan
3.  [11] Meet Two-Shoed Lou
4.  [11] Livin' the Life
   • Side quests:  [11] "I TAKE Candle!" /  [12] Feast or Famine
5.  [12] Lou's Parting Thoughts
6.  [12] Shakedown at the Saldean's
7.  [12] Times are Tough /  [12] Westfall Stew
   • Side chain:  [12] Heart of the Watcher &  [13] It's Alive!
8.  [13] You Have Our Thanks
9.  [13] Hope for the People
10.  [13] Feeding the Hungry and the Hopeless /  [13] In Defense of Westfall
    • Side chain:  [13] The Westfall Brigade &  [14] Jango Spothide
11.  [14] Find Agent Kearnen
12.  [14] Secrets of the Tower
13.  [14] Big Trouble in Moonbrook
14.  [14] To Moonbrook!
15.  [14] Propaganda
    • Side quest:  [14] Evidence Collection
16.  [15] The Dawning of a New Day
17.  [15] Secrets Revealed
18.  [15] A Vision of the Past
19.  [15] Rise of the Brotherhood
20.  [15] Return to Sentinel Hill
21.  [15] Threat to the Kingdom

TriviaEdit

The title of this quest comes from a hook from the song "Murder was the Case" by (then) Death Row Records recording artist Snoop (Doggy) Dogg. It is also interesting to note that the lyrics of the Chamillionaire song "Hip Hop Police" includes a line which reads "Murder was a case, and they blame me." The subject of the song ties in closely with the quest.

Patch historyEdit

Patch 4.0.3 (2010-11-15): Added 

External linksEdit

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