Andrew Dawber

For other uses of Andrew, see Andrew (disambiguation).

Dawber, Andrew “Andy”

Appeared in Abandoned in Death (Wednesday, June 7 - Friday, June 9, 2061) and mentioned in Desperation in Death (late June, 2061), Encore in Death (Monday, June 28 - Thursday, July 1, 2061), and Random in Death (August, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Looked like someone’s pale and bookish uncle, with sparkling blue eyes and snow-white hair, and a twangy southern accent with a child’s cadence or neatly cropped gray hair
• DOB: November, 1998
• Age: 62
• Hair: Snow-white or gray (YANNI)
• Eyes: Blue
• Relationships: Lisa McKinley (mother/deceased); Tiffany Boswell McKinney (grandmother/deceased); Buford McKinney (grandfather/deceased); Dr. Joella Fletcher (half-sister); Chasen Q. Fletcher (half-brother); Senator Edward Fletcher (half-brother)
• Address: Lower West Side brownstone
• Occupation: Crime lab tech, NYPSD

Homicide Information

• Lauren Elder
  • Throat slit and then stitched back up and covered with a black ribbon
  • Marks on her right wrist and left ankle show she was held against her will
  • She was washed and dressed, including fresh makeup, perfume, and nail polish, and had a new tattoo of a blue butterfly with yellow markings on her lower back and a bar through her belly button area
  • Left on a park bench in a park near Mavis’s new house with a sign reading “Bad Mommy”
  • Found by a licensed companion on her way home

• Anna Hobe
  • Throat slit and then stitched back up and covered with a black ribbon
  • Contusions and lacerations on her right wrist and left ankle show she was held against her will
  • She was washed and dressed, including fresh makeup, perfume, and nail polish, and had a new tattoo of a blue butterfly with yellow markings on her lower back and a bright red ball in her navel
  • Left outside, in front of Exploration Station, with a sign reading “Bad Mommy”
  • Found by Kylo Grishom on his way home from his girlfriend's house on Duane

Interesting Facts

• His mother, who called him “baby darling” in lieu of giving him an actual name, abandoned him outside a church in 2003 because he was such a whiny brat, and then had amnesia and started a new family.
• He was called “John Church” when he was found, and then was adopted by Elyse and Lloyd Dawber in New Orleans, LA in 2005.
• He called his computer “Ethel.”
• He identified the eau de toilette Lauren Elder was wearing as Party Girl and the makeup as Toot Sweet and Betty Lou.
• He identified the makeup Anna Hobe wore as Toot Sweet and intentionally delayed and then misidentified the nail information.
• He moved to New York in 2016 to attend Columbia, got his advanced degree in forensic chemistry, and has worked for the NYPSD since 2025.
• His mother created a fake law firm called McKinney and Son to handle the trust that held the property she bought for him. The owners on record were Cami and Ken Snily, an anagram of Lisa McKinney.
• His mother called him Johnny when she was scolding him.

YANNI

• His hair was either white: “snow-white hair” (Chapter 1) or gray: “neatly cropped gray hair” (Chapter 9), “a gray-haired man” (Chapter 20)