Phoebe Michaelson

Michaelson, Phoebe

Appeared in Secrets in Death (mid-February, 2061)

Personal Information

• Description: Ghost-pale, with swollen and reddened eyes from weeping
• Eyes: Brown
• Relationships: Larson K. Derick (father); unnamed mother
• Former Occupation: Assistant to Larinda Mars’s Assistant (Ross Burkoff)

Interesting Facts

• Her father was Larson K. Derick, aka “Black Hat Derick,” notorious hacker. He used his considerable skills to drain financial accounts about twenty-five years ago, briefly turning Wall Street inside out. While he could have bought his own country and retired there, instead he turned to politics and became a terrorist. He broke into government facilities, exposed or held ransom highly sensitive information. He instigated a fire sale in East Washington, i.e., shut down the city - the communications and the utilities in the dead of winter.
• He demanded the president, vice president, and their families be executed because the government was corrupt and needed to be leveled.
• She was two when they caught him, and her mother had left him right after she was born because he started getting crazy. They put her mother and her into lockdown and questioned her for days and days, even though her mother hadn’t been with her father for two years.
• Eventually she and her mother were put into witness protection and given new names. Her mother wasn’t allowed to do any e-work, but since she was only two there were no such restrictions.
• Mars found out and threatened to ruin her and her mother if Phoebe didn’t hack for her. Mars told her if she hacked into Roarke’s systems, she might let her off the hook, but she was unable to; Mars then slapped her.
• Her mother works for a landscaper in New Jersey.
• Resigned from Channel 75 to go back to work with her mother.