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The Winter Wing is one of four rooms in Samson Tangaroa's mansion connected to the Fountain room. From the entrance at the center, it is the second room from the right. All four rooms contain a stream of water that leads to the fountain in the central room.
In 2000, during Tangaroa's confectionery design competition, it was assigned to Delicia Scone for building her entry for the finals. However, Artie Frost, one of the other contestants, was murdered, and his entry, consisting of flavored ice sculptures of the signs of the zodiac, went missing. Tangaroa was arrested and convicted for the murder. Over 18 years later, Judy Bound, Tangaroa's adopted daughter, opened the Zodiac Hall inside the mansion, claiming to have replicas of Frost's sculptures. The Winter Wing was where the sculptures representing the signs of the winter months were displayed.
The false cream castle[]
When Tangaroa's parents died, he inherited his father's company, the Tangaroa Group, as well as the "Ultimate Cookbook", containing procedures for experimental pharmaceutical drugs. When Tangaroa announced the highly sought-after book as the grand prize for his design competition, the Tangaroa Group sent one of their own, Delicia Scone, in an attempt to win it back. With the help of Bound, Scone built a cream castle. In reality, the castle was mostly made of inedible material, essentially a mannequin that was merely covered in cream. Moreover, she used inedible props such as luminous cloths and rock salt lamps, which were against the rules. Subsequently, her entry was disqualified; Tangaroa confiscated the lamps and cloths, and kept them in his room.
Some time later, an altercation occurred between Carmelo Gusto and Frost in Tangaroa's room, in which they hit each other with the lamps, resulting in the latter's death. Thinking to frame Scone for the murder, Gusto removed his own blood from one of the lamps by rubbing it on a lyre that was part of the sculpture of Gemini, leaving Frost's bloodstain on the other. He then hid the lamps and cloths inside Scone's castle, where the police would find them, though one of the cloths was placed over the body to help incriminate her further. However, Tangaroa was arrested instead due to Frost's body being discovered in his room.
Gusto managed to move the body to Frost's room and hide it inside the sculpture of Gemini with the help of the cloth. He then assisted Prosecutor Manfred von Karma and Detective Tyrell Badd, who were placed in charge of the police investigation. Tangaroa's lawyer, Gregory Edgeworth, arrived soon after the investigation had started. While this was happening, Bound stole the sculptures by hiding them under a tablecloth and moving them with a baggage lift in such a way that the setup looked like a service cart. She even carried tea on top of the "service cart" and served it to Edgeworth and other investigators. She moved the sculptures to a freezer in the mansion, not knowing that the body was hidden within.
It was in Scone's room that Edgeworth and von Karma first met, with the latter addressing the former condescendingly before leaving to investigate Gusto's room. Because Scone set the temperature controls in the room to room temperature, the cream castle began to melt, exposing it as a fake. Edgeworth found the murder weapon and decided to talk to von Karma, wondering why he had ruled out the most obvious suspect. Though Edgeworth eventually figured out that the body had been stolen, the police produced a forged autopsy report, causing the ensuing trial to last almost a year before Tangaroa was found guilty as an accomplice to the murder.
The plan to expose the truth[]
Eighteen years later, Bound bought the mansion from Tangaroa's family and returned to the freezer, where she finally discovered the body. She decided to convert the mansion into an art gallery featuring Frost's sculptures in order to lure in everyone still alive who had been involved in the so-called "IS-7 Incident", particularly the real killer. She made more sculptures to complete the zodiac concept, and then arranged the sculptures in each of the rooms connected to the fountain room by season. The seasons were apparently arranged chronologically, but in fact the Winter and Autumn Wings were switched. Bound disguised the Autumn Wing sculptures to make the room look like the Winter Wing, and booby-trapped the statue disguised as Gemini.
Gusto fell for the trap but survived. An investigation of the Autumn Wing ensued, during which Bound used the same ruse as before to smuggle Frost's body, hidden inside a hollow block of ice, to the Summer Wing, where she dumped it into the stream there. Due to time constraints, Bound hid the body inside a hollow ice block instead of the glass casings that normally housed the sculptures. Because of this, the tablecloth used in the deception appeared blue due to being in direct contact with the ice. The body and the luminous cloth it was wrapped in made their way to the fountain and floated to the surface, finally exposing the truth that the police had never obtained the body. Because Larry Butz witnessed the "blue" tablecloth, Miles Edgeworth was able to figure out that Bound had done all this, and that she had wrapped the tablecloth around her waist, which would have traces of flavored ice on it due to the ice block. Edgeworth then confronted Gusto and was able to prove that he was the real killer behind the IS-7 Incident after traces of his blood were found in the liquid left over from the sculpture of Gemini, the same blood that he had removed from the rock salt lamp.