| “ | Gold has given the Crimson Order unlimited power! As its leader, I get to choose who lives and who dies in this town. I am Grimsborough's God! | „ |
| ~ Milton Grimmes when confronted by David Jones. |
Milton Grimmes is the main antagonist of the 2012 Facebook game Criminal Case, the first installment of the Criminal Case franchise.
Initially introduced as the warden of the Grimsborough Prison, he was secretly the leader of the Crimson Order, a secret society responsible for controlling Grimsborough from the shadows and killing off anyone who tries to reveal their existence to the public. He is also a descendant of The Crimson Order's founder, Solomon Grimmes.
Appearance[]
He has noticeable forehead wrinkles and gray hair with white streaks. He's dressed in a gray-brown sleeveless jacket worn over a white suit. On one side of his jacket, he wears a name tag as a warden, while on the other, there are keys. Additionally, he is seen holding the saucer in one hand and a cup of tea in the other.
Personality[]
His motivation is ambition. He uses the Crimson Order to plan illegal operations out of a desire for control and power. He is vicious and would stop at nothing to get what he wants by manipulating people and situations. Milton works in the shadows as the mastermind of Grimsborough's criminal underworld. Because of his intelligence, he is able to stay one step ahead of the authorities, leaving a trail of murders and puzzles for players to discover. Milton bears the responsibility of carrying on his family's tradition as a descendant of Solomon Grimmes. His decisions and intentions are influenced by this link to the past, which gives his character more nuance. He is shown to have a temper, too.
Biography[]
Milton Grimmes first appeared in the penultimate case of the game Ashes to Ashes, when Inspector Jones and the player found a computer on his desk while he was absent. Surveillance footage revealed Tess hypnotizing guards with a pendulum to escape. When Milton finally arrived, he apologized both for his absence and for Tess’s breakout. Jones pressed him about Tess’s behavior, but Milton could only admit that he had underestimated her intellect—she spent long hours in the prison library, always studying. He swore on Solomon Grimmes’s grave that he would enforce new rules to prevent such failures again.
The team questioned Milton about a reconstructed article detailing Crimson Order incidents. Tess, they explained, had been killed while investigating the Order’s history. When asked about Solomon’s presence at Mary Goodwin’s execution, Milton explained that as a colonial judge, Solomon had the right to attend. He warned the investigators to tread carefully if they continued digging into the Order’s centuries-long crimes.
Later, following Luna Hecate’s indictment for Tess’s death, the team searched for files on Shane Kolinsky, imprisoned a decade earlier for Donna King’s murder. They were shocked to learn Shane had been a Crimson Order member. When they brought this up, Milton grew irritated—he was unwilling to revisit the past and bristled at their persistence.
In the final case, There Will Be Blood, with Anakee’s help, the team uncovered an ancient wedding invitation linking Solomon Grimmes to Inaya of the Aloki tribe. Milton, Solomon’s descendant, was called in again. He claimed that Inaya’s kin opposed the union, and that the marriage dissolved quickly. But when a mass grave of murdered Aloki was discovered beneath a construction site, Milton’s lies unraveled. Pressed further, he admitted the Crimson Order had massacred the tribe during the feast, sparing Solomon only in exchange for his loyalty.
Eventually, Milton was unmasked as Delsin Peota’s killer. Confronted in his Crimson Order regalia, he declared that Grimsborough belonged to the Grimmes family. He confessed to killing Delsin and drinking his blood, then revealed a darker truth: Solomon Grimmes had seduced Inaya only to lure the Aloki into a trap, massacre them, and seize their gold mine—wealth that fueled the Order for centuries. Disgusted, Jones realized the mine had been the Order’s motive all along.
Milton proclaimed he would rise as dictator and god, aiming his gun at the player. At the last moment, Ramirez struck him with a frying pan, echoing his earlier heroics in The Rorschach Reaper. The team arrested Milton, despite his bitter protest that he was meant to present the player’s head at the Order’s ceremony. Disguising themselves as members, Jones and the player infiltrated the hideout, arresting Alden Greene and Mayor Howard Johnson, while Serena Johnson was already in custody for Adam Bentley’s murder.
The ensuing trial became known as the “trial of the century.” Judge Hall denounced the Grimmes family as leaders of a murderous society, while Milton raged that the Order were heroes, not criminals. At last, Judge Hall sentenced the Order’s members to solitary confinement for life, though she admitted the punishment was merciful compared to their crimes. Milton defiantly insisted the Order had built Grimsborough, but Hall silenced him: the city, she declared, was founded on murder.
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Trivia[]
- Milton is among the characters who makes two appearances as suspects.
- Throughout the course of the entire Criminal Case franchise, Milton and Margaret Littlewood are the only district killers in Grimsborough to have remained alive.
- Milton Grimmes and Eleonora Macaron are the only two final killers of their respective installment games to receive a proper trial.
External Links[]
Milton Grimmes on the Criminal Case Wiki
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