Timmy Tucker Book Report

Timmy Tucker is a 13 year old boy whose parents were killed in a car crash. They died on there way to pick him up from his grandparents house, he was a year old at the time of their death so he didn't have any memories of parents only pictures. His grandma was holding a secret from him and that was his parents weren’t killed in car crash but were killed in a shooting. His grandma finally told him on his 13th birthday because she felt he was old enough.
He went to the police station to look at the files from the incident. When he was skimming the evidence when he noticed a fingerprint in the back of the evidence the cops must’ve misplaced. He took the fingerprint when no one was looking and he knew this was the key to finding the murderer. His friends were worried about him missing a lot of school but he didn’t listen. He started going door to door asking for fingerprints to match the one he got from the police station.
He went to the neighborhood houses first since he felt like he wouldn’t be in any danger. When he was asking for fingerprints most of the people compiled but some he had to trick them into doing it by giving them something to hold then he would just dust of the fingerprints. When he was comparing the fingerprints none of them were a match so he decided to move his search area. …show more content…
The difference is when you're in a big city it’s harder to figure out if you fingerprinted everyone. Well over 2 weeks of work and a lot of money on ink and paper he finally finished. He examined one by one for another week and he narrowed down is search to 3 people who all had past criminal records but one stood out it was his dad's best friends who was with him at the time of his death. He went to confront him when he also knew Timmy figured out what happened. His dad’s friend was named Sheldon Dinkleberg. Dinkleberg grabbed Timmy and pulled him