Goldie Potsby-Mahn

Evil-doer
Full Name	Goldie Potsby-Mahn
Alias	No information
Origin	Layton Brothers: Mystery Room
Occupation	Unknown
Powers / Skills	Ice carving
Goals	Kill Jack Potsy to steal his money before he spends it.(succeeded) Avoid arrest.(failed)
Crimes	Serial Killings Theft
Type of Villain	Greedy Serial Killer

Goldie Potsby-Mahn is an antagonist from Layton Brothers: Mystery Room. She is 32 years old and known for being stunningly beautiful.

Biography

Crime

Goldie Potsby-Mahn was a gold digger, meaning she only married people for their money. She had been widowed three times, it was believed she had killed her husbands and got rich from the life insurance they left her. When Jack Potsby, who is unemployed due to gambling habits, won a huge sum of money, she decided to marry him. Like all her previous spouses, he had set up life insurance for her out of love. Because Potsby had the tendency to spend money quickly, Goldie noticed his debts would go over his life insurance payout, so she decided to hurriedly kill him.

She forged a knife made of ice, using a scrap of paper as a mould, then used the knife to stab him Jack in the back. To make the murder seem like it was a burglary gone wrong, she smashed the window from outside, causing the glass shards to land atop Potsby. She quickly cleaned the knife using a towel, left it on the balcony and had the knife melted in a pot that was cooking pasta.

When a security guard named Chase M. Downes heard the sound of glass breaking, he quickly rushed to Potsby's flat. She then lied to him that she had been taking a shower when she suddenly heard the sound of her husband scream, only to see a muscular man dressed entirely in black fleeing the scene. Downes quickly searched the area and caught a well-known burglar named Buster Nicks. The burglar said he was coincidentally planning to break into a ground-floor flat but when he heard the sound of glass breaking, he thought it was another burglar (though he did not see anyone come down) and decided to call off his plan. Nevertheless, Goldie's ploy worked for a time as Buster Nicks found himself apprehended for the burglary-murder.

Investigation

After her crime, Goldie started dating again and found a new boyfriend named Bingo, whom she treated like a pet, going so far as to buy him a spiked collar. However, Florence Sich, a forensic scientist, looked over the case, became suspicious of Goldie, and suspected that Nicks was actually innocent of Jack's murder. When she had the Mystery Room conducted an investigation, Goldie was called to help, Alfendi Layton was 96.4% sure that she was Jack's murderer. When she brought Bingo with him, Alfendi asked him to leave, with Potsby-Mahn ordering him to go home and wait for her under the porch.

As the Mystery Room began to tie up the loose ends of the case, she insisted that Nicks was the killer due to the broken window and the fact that he was the only burglar present at that time. She was later accused of murdering Jack when called in for a second questioning. Goldie was sure that neither Lucy Baker nor Alfendi would be able to figure out the murder weapon, however they determined through various inconsistencies (such as a pot of pasta being cooked despite the known lack of cooking skills from both Goldie and Jack) that Goldie had been using a knife made of ice, and fabricated the burglary. Goldie's earlier vehement claim of never having left the apartment now worked against her, as it became clear given the circumstances that she was the culprit and not Nicks (nor Downes). Goldie demanded to see her lawyer before being questioned further, but later confessed to killing Jack for the life insurance payout. She was soon convicted of the murder and was placed in a prison cell. Bingo looked over at her by the window as she sighed about her predicament.

Trivia

• The full name of "Goldie Potsby-Mahn" is interpreted as "goldie pots be mine" as she married men who were rich so she could take their life insurance money.
• As Goldie has the last name of "Potsby-Mahn", it can be assumed "Mahn" was either her maiden surname or one taken from a previous marriage.
• Even though neither of the other suspects were dressed entirely in black, Potsby-Mahn's statement about seeing a "muscular man" may lead players to erroneously believe that Chase M. Downes is the true murderer of Jack Potsby.