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The warden's office is used by the warden of the detention center and prison for a variety of purposes, including storing evidence and interrogating prisoners. The neighboring prison yard is blocked off by an electrified fence.
The fixer[]
When an assassin named Bodhidharma Kanis was sent to prison, he blackmailed Fifi Laguarde, the warden at the time, telling her that he had minions and that he knew a secret that would prove devastating to her and Excelsius Winner, the chair of the Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence. One of the resulting favors granted to him involved smuggling various items that he demanded for the sake of the other prisoners. To create a smuggling route, Laguarde enlisted a prisoner named Frank Sahwit, giving him her key to the breaker room in the prison yard and telling him to cut the power to the prison at a specified time every week. This allowed her to go through the electrified fence undetected and drop the goods down a well in the yard, for Helmut, Kanis' dog, to pick up. She would later modify the timestamps of the security cameras to fill the time gap caused by the power cut. Laguarde would interrogate the assassin on a regular basis to try to get him to give her more information about his henchmen, to no avail.
Driven over the edge[]
The situation reached a breaking point in March 2019, with the arrest of Bronco Knight. While intercepting Knight's mail, Laguarde was horrified to find that he was apparently playing chess with Kanis through mail correspondence. She wrote to Winner on her suspicion that Knight was in cahoots with Kanis, and interrogated him two days after his initial detainment. During the interrogation, Laguarde found a portable chessboard in Knight's possession and opened it to find a small chisel hidden inside. Knowing that Kanis had taken up chiseling during his stay in prison, Laguarde took this as a sign that Knight was here for nefarious purposes. In a panic, she took the knife that Kanis had used in his assassinations, and stabbed Knight in the neck, killing him.
Laguarde planned to frame Kanis for the crime so that he would be transferred to a different prison. She stabbed Knight multiple times in the fatal neck wound with the chisel, soaking it in his blood to disguise it as the murder weapon. She also took a custom-made bell that was attached to the knife and attached it to the chisel to further cast suspicion. She then disposed of the knife by feeding it to her alligator. Despite these measures, Miles Edgeworth, the prosecutor initially in charge of Knight's case, uncovered the truth, and Laguarde was arrested.