Jack Rice Murder Case

Jack Rice Murder Case is a police case in Season Three of the Showtime series DEXTER.

It involves the murder of Jack Rice in an apparent home invasion.

Episode

 * "All in the Family"

Suspects

 * Unnamed Burglar - Initially suspected based on the fact that the house appeared to have been broken into using a similar M.O. to several recent home invasions. The victim's fiancée Fiona Kemp also claimed to have seen a person fitting the suspect's description running out of the house just before she found the body.
 * Fiona Kemp - Implicated after blood spatter analysis revealed that someone of the suspected burglar's height could not have been the killer. Later confirmed when she confessed to Detective Joey Quinn.

History of Killer
Fiona Kemp saw Jack Rice at the coffee shop she worked at, and immediately became obsessed with him. She stalked him for a while before revealing herself to him at his house. When he freaked out and rejected her, she beat him to death with a statue in his house in order to "preserve their love" before framing the scene to look like a home invasion and calling the police claiming to be the victim's fiancée.

Detectives on Case

 * Officer (then) Debra Morgan - Assigned to the case from the beginning and discovered that none of Jack Rice's friends or family knew about Fiona despite her claims that she was his fiancée.
 * Detective Joey Quinn - Theorized that Fiona was the killer and eventually got her to confess after her lies were discovered.
 * Officer Doty - Responded to Fiona Kemp's 911 call and was first on the crime scene.

Other operatives involved in the case:


 * Forensic Blood Spatter Analyst Dexter Morgan - Ran a blood check which confirmed that the original suspect couldn't have been the killer.

Victim

 * Jack Rice - A random guy who Fiona saw at the coffee shop where she worked. After becoming obsessed with him, she was rejected by him so beat him to death and set it up to look like a home invasion.

Closure of Case
The case is officially closed because the killer has been arrested and confessed.

Fate of Killer
Fiona Kemp confessed to the murder and was imprisoned.

Related Pages

 * Jack Rice
 * Fiona Kemp