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Closer Case Study

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Problem Solution - The Closer, Season 1, Episode 9, “Good Housekeeping”

In the episode, Mr.and Mrs.Phillips had a previous female housekeeper,19.
But, got pregnant which resulted in her leave, to get a new housekeeper they paid their gardener Alejandro to get undocumented housekeepers from Mexico. Alejandro got his sister and niece to come to America so that they would have a better life. Later on Marta Alvarez,13 was found dead in the LA river. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips knew that their son Austin Phillips, 17 murdered and raped Marta Alvarez. They decide to help their son cover up the murder because he is underage and his actions were a simple accident.

After Austin killed Marta and dumped the body in the LA river his backup solution was to look for sex offenders on an online platform to though off the LAPD. Austin found a victim to pin the killing on, a male sex offender who was living the area. Austin picked him since previous conviction with the underage children would make him a higher suspecting rate than him. Austin’s problem was slowly unraveling, so the Phillips family as the whole set up a premeditated plan get Austin away from arrest …show more content…

The victim that Austin choose committed suicided and there’s was no sign of Marta things or pictures in the man's belongings. He also left a lot of trails that were used in the murmured behind. Her backpack was left at the Phillips family home and giving back to Marta mother, the car weapons use were not cleaned or hiding. Adv. Austin hid the body he the river, the sex offered was a long enough stall, his father took the blame and his mother had him flee to

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