READ 96 Group 2 am discussion

Luis Rodriguez
Journal Submission No. 1
Death Note Another Note : The Los Angeles BB Murder Case
Chapters 1, pages 1-50
Melissa, Joseph, and Nicole
Thursday, October 10, 2013, 11:26pm

I felt like this story already had me hooked sense page 1! At first this book starts off with the narrator explaining the main villain tutoring someone for pleasure but then it goes into some background knowledge about the characters. There is "L" Who happens to be the worlds greatest detective and it goes on to say that he ended up solving 3,500 difficult crime cases and sent three times that number of criminals in jail. After that it continues on how the narrator grew up with "L" and how this story was one he told as the narrator grew up. Narrator introduces himself as "Michael Keehl." The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases was also known as the Wara Ningyo Murders and the L.A. Serial Locked Room Killings. The villains nickname is Beyond Birthday. Main protagonist is introduced which is Naomi Misora who happened to be a FBI agent on suspension. At this point in the story Beyond Birthday had just committed his third killing and Misora was considering quitting the FBI and moving back to japan. Naomi then checks her email and notices she had a new message from Ray Penbar which happened to be her current boyfriend and is also in the FBI. When she opened the message it relayed a message from "L" under her boyfriends email. The message was "L" asking Naomi to help him on a case and gave her directions then to destroy the computer. L never shows himself in public because he does not want people knowing how he looks like. Later on Misora does what L asks her to do and in return it happens to be a meeting with him electronically of course and he basically fills her in on the case over a t.v. He then goes on to explain how the first two people were murdered and how they couldn't find any prints as if he dusted everything. Three victims are Believe Bridesmaid, Quarter Queen, and Backyard Bottomslash as the Naomi tried to explain to her boss that there must be some logic as to why they were all murdered, but then later on she gets let down by evidence showing that none of these people knew each other so they couldn't link in anyway besides hanging dolls on the wall.

I predict that Naomi and "L" are going to investigate one of the victims houses or crime scene and determine if they link or not and soon hopefully confront the main villain which would happen to be Beyond Birthday. I wonder if the third victim was murdered by dismemberment how would the next victim go down and why would this victim go down. What was important was that three people were murdered and they all were linked through a Japanese doll hanging nailed to the wall also the fact that Beyond Birthday was the one who murdered these three, the next step would have to be determining who would be the next victim and where is he going to strike? I picture "L" and Naomi meeting to determine what’s going to be the next step they take. This really reminded me of Sherlock Holmes and how most of the crimes he investigated linked in small ways. I didn't expect the three murders to link but was proven wrong early in the book with the fact that the Wara Ningyo which happened to be a Japanese voodoo doll hanging off the wall attached to the end of a nail. I got confused during the beginning of the reading because it really got into the main detective backstory as well as the narrator. I think I'l have to reread the last couple of pages again to see if I'm missing any key details in all these cases relating to each other besides the Wara Ningyo which is a huge step to discovering the killer because only people of Japanese heritage know what the Wara Ningyo is.

Luis, nice job w/this post. Be sure to include your vocab. I don't see it here. Great detail, and it's clear that you "get" metacognitive awareness component.