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Rosie Ringer was a defense attorney and a member of the Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence. She was found murdered in the Committee's chamber.
Her loss[]
Aldown's corpse.
In 2007, Ringer's photojournalist boyfriend Alf Aldown was investigating the illegal activities of Chief Prosecutor Excelsius Winner. On February 10, Aldown followed one of his leads and stumbled onto what appeared to be the kidnapping of Di-Jun Wang, the president of Zheng Fa. Aldown called Ringer, but he couldn't reach her, so instead left her a voice mail. However, while recording his message, he was struck dead from behind. Although the murder case and kidnapping were left unsolved, Ringer suspected Winner's involvement, and wanted revenge.
When Winner became the Chair of the Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence, Ringer also became a member to get close to him and find a way to bring him down. Ringer's friend, a judge named Verity Gavèlle, also became a member to help Ringer in her quest. In the meantime, Ringer continued to take on clients as a defense attorney. She agreed to defend Fifi Laguarde in court after the latter was accused of murder in 2019, but Ringer would ultimately never live to see the trial. Gavèlle eventually became one of Winner's most trusted people.
Confrontation & death[]
Ringer's corpse.
Ringer began receiving letters from a helpful stranger who fed Ringer information on Winner, and eventually Ringer decided to act. She found out about Winner's illegal auctioning of evidence from past cases, all of which was gathered in a hidden storage area above the Committee's Committee chamber. On April 4, 2019, Ringer entered the auction; all the participants wore masks equipped with voice-changers to hide their identities.
Ringer won a bid for one of the items, and followed Winner to the storage room to collect her winnings. With the two of them now alone, Ringer confronted Winner, telling him that she knew who he was from the burn mark on his face. However, unbeknownst to Ringer, the stranger had informed Winner of Ringer's intent to kill him, allowing him to be ready for her. He struck her over the head with the auction gavel, mortally wounding her.
In order to conceal his crime, Winner gave Ringer's clothing and mask to an accomplice, Florence Niedler, to replace Ringer at the auction so that no one would notice that one of the bidders was missing. Ringer was hidden inside a costume trunk as Winner continued the auction, and Niedler covered Ringer with a red raincoat. However, after Winner and Niedler returned to the auction, Ringer managed to escape and climb the ladder to the top of the tower, but soon collapsed and died.
Meanwhile, Niedler won the costume trunk and she and Winner returned to the storage room to discover the unconscious Kay Faraday, who had fallen into the storage room in shock after discovering Ringer's body. Seeing letters on Faraday and Ringer addressed to each other, Winner decided to pin the murder on Faraday to get rid of what he believed was a duo out to get him. He dressed Ringer's body with his auctioneer's clothes, and then stabbed the corpse with a candelabra that was among the evidence in the room. Both Faraday and Ringer were locked in the costume trunk until the auction was finished.
Winner then brought the body down the elevator that connected the storage and the Committee chamber. It was there that he removed the candelabra so that the resulting blood loss would make it appear as if she had died in that room. He then laid Ringer's body on the Committee desk, and left the candelabra nearby. Niedler would later change the cause of death in Hilda Hertz's autopsy report.
Winner left Faraday's promise notebook next to Ringer and placed one of the letters in her left breast pocket, unaware that the latter was actually a forgery created by the man who had played both sides and left Faraday at the scene. The mastermind did all this knowing that Miles Edgeworth would defend Faraday and reveal the true criminal in the process. Ringer's death left Fifi Laguarde's trial without a defense attorney, and so Eddie Fender took over her role as the only one able to do so at such short notice. Edgeworth went on to uncover Winner's actions during the SS-5 Incident, as well as the identity of the mastermind whose schemes had led to Ringer's death.
Name[]
Mugshot.
- Japanese - Tsubasa Kagome (籠目 つばさ):
- Her given name in Japanese "Tsubasa" (つばさ) means "wings," while her full name could be a play on the Japanese phrase "kago no naka no tori" (籠の中の鳥), which means "a bird in a cage." Along with her surname "Kagome" (籠目), all of these are likely references to the traditional Japanese children's game "Kagome Kagome", of which "a bird in a cage" is one of the lines. This is backed up by her boyfriend's surname "Kamei" (亀井) containing the kanji for "turtle" (亀), which is also mentioned in "Kagome Kagome."
- English - Rosie Ringer:
- Her English name is based on the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" (backed by Alf Aldown's name having the same reference)
- French - Jessica Pulet:
- Her French name is a play on "Capulet", the surname of Juliet from the William Shakespeare tragic play, Romeo and Juliet.
Unofficial[]
- English - Jill Crane:
- Her English name in the unofficial fan translation patch for Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit is "Jill Crane," which is likely meant to have a similar meaning to her Japanese given name; "Jill" may be intended to hearken back to "Kagome Kagome" by referring to the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill (backed by Kamei's given name being changed to "Jack"). The surname "Crane" more directly links back to "Kagome Kagome," where the crane is mentioned alongside the turtle.