Jake Ingersol

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

Ingersol, Jake

Appeared in Calculated in Death (November, 2060)

Personal Information

• Description: Like an energetic puppy, all movement and avid eyes; sun-streaked brown hair curled around his face, made him seem very youthful, somewhat innocent. But his eyes, though warm brown, were sharp, savvy
• Age at TOD: Early thirties
• Hair: Sun-streaked brown
• Eyes: Warm brown
• Relationships: Unnamed uncle; Alys (non-serious girlfriend); unnamed family in Michigan who he wasn’t close to
• Occupation: Owner/Partner/Financial Consultant, WIN Group

Homicide Information

• Beaten to death with a thirteen-inch, high-carbon steel, smooth face, curved claw hammer
  • Murdered by Clinton Roscoe Frye, ordered by Sterling Alexander
  • He was killed in the apartment the WIN Group was rehabbing for office and living use, where Marta Dickenson was killed.
  • Frye purchased the hammer at Big Apple Hardware on the way back from killing Chaz Parzarri

Interesting Facts

• Worked for Allied, where he met Robinson Newton; they formed a company with Bradley Whitestone, whom Rob had gone to college with, and they bought a place together and flipped it; they used that money (“the WIN investment fund”) to start the WIN Group. His uncle (the Ingersol of the Ingersol-Williams Corporation) gave them a subsidiary to manage and Brad’s father let them take over the management of a small lead trust.
• Eve summed up the WIN Group as: “Newton’s the smooth one, Whitestone’s the charisma, and Ingersol’s the hamster” (go, go, get it done).
• One of his clients was Your Space; Latisha Vance said he had a lot of energy and enthusiasm: “We always say we feel like we could organize the world after a session with Jake.”
• Peabody said he “doesn’t really have a genuine ex. More like several women he sees or stops seeing off and on... fun guy but commitment phobic.”
• Brad had an inkling that he (Ingersol) was up to no good but thought he was kidding around - had noticed a few suspicious purchases (a watch, a painting) that Ingersol was able to explain away.
  • About a year ago they were out drinking at a club, “it looked like [Whitestone] might lose the Breckinridge account and [he] was feeling pretty low. [Jake] laid out this whole idea for making money off land deals. Setting up dummy companies, pulling in groups and selling off more shares than you had, then buying up the land yourself. Inflating or deflating the assessments. He drew up a chart on cocktail napkins.”
  • Brad thought Ingersol was joking around, messing around to cheer him up. “I said it sounded good if you didn’t mind cheating people, or going to jail for a couple decades. I even added a couple of ideas... I refined a couple of angles. He wrote them down... I said something about it being too bad we were honest, too bad we’d worked all those years to get our license, build our business and our rep, things we didn’t want to lose.”
  • Ingersol told him, “‘Big money buys big rep.’ I just laughed at him, and said something like big talk buys shit, and it was his turn to get the next round.”