Doug Swallow

"Judge"

- An "alchemist"... I see...

"Phoenix Wright"

- I gotta admit it was a little suspicious. He had a whole laboratory and everything!

Doug Swallow was a pharmacology student at Ivy University. His ex-girlfriend Dahlia Hawthorne killed him when he tried to warn Phoenix Wright about her.

Relationship with danger
Swallow was Dahlia Hawthorne's boyfriend for a while, but eight months prior to his death, he discovered that some of the poisonous chemicals he was working with for his studies had gone missing. Around the same time, someone was poisoned, and Hawthorne was the prime suspect. Realizing that Hawthorne was dangerous, Swallow broke up with her.

Death

 * Main article: Turnabout Memories

After the poisoning incident, Hawthorne met Phoenix Wright and had a dating relationship with him for eight months. One day, Swallow again discovered that some of his poisonous chemicals had gone missing, and he feared the worst. He confronted Wright near the pharmacology labs at Ivy University to warn him about the poison, but Wright refused to listen; he pushed Swallow to the ground, breaking his umbrella, and left. Seeing this altercation, Hawthorne decided that Swallow would blow her cover if he were left to live, and electrocuted him to death with a snapped wire providing power to the pharmacology labs.

The power failure from the snapped wire attracted the attention of other people. In panic, Hawthorne planted a bottle of "Coldkiller X" medicine that she had poisoned into Swallow's hand and then fled the scene before too many witnesses showed up.

Wright returned to the scene of the crime to find Swallow's body. He was accused of the murder and put on trial.

Wright's defense attorney, Mia Fey, exposed a series of contradictions in the explanations of the prosecution and the key witness, Hawthorne. She successfully indicted Hawthorne as the real killer, and Wright was acquitted.

Personality
Wright thought he was an Anglophile (or, in his own words, a "stuck-up British wannabe") due to the Union Jack on the back of the shirt he was wearing when he was murdered.

Name

 * "Nonda Kikuzou" (呑田菊三) comes from the Japanese phrase "nondara kiku", meaning "if you drink it, it'll work", possibly a reference to his attempt to warn Wright about the poison.


 * "Doug Swallow" sounds like "don't swallow" or "drug swallow". Both are references to the fact that Hawthorne tried to poison Wright's medicine, much like his Japanese name.


 * When arranged surname first, "Patrick Hauméot" becomes a play on the French word for "homeopathic".


 * In a fan translation of the game before its release in English, he was called "Jack Richford", likely in reference to Wright believing him to be an Anglophile (namely "Jack" from "Union Jack").