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Case Garland (b. 1975) is a private investigator in the greater New Orleans region. Although he normally works out of a small office in the city, he lives on the bayou in Des Allemands, Louisiana. During the COVID-19 lockdown, he developed a knack for and reputation as an online presence fixer.
Biography
Early life
Case was born in the village of Sleepy Hollow, Illinois, in the Northwestern suburbs of Chicago, on January 19, 1975. His parents, Fritz and Hannah (nee Smith) Garland, were teachers at a local elementary school. They died in a car accident while driving across the Fox River when Case was 15. As they had no extended family, Case spent the rest of high school living with an elderly pastor of the Evangelical Free Church his parents had attended.
During his senior year of high school, Case began dating Greer Gardner, whom he'd known for a few years at Dundee-Crown High School. During their short relationship, Case learned about the abuse Greer suffered from her alcoholic father, Nick Gardner. Following their graduation, Case helped Greer escape to North Dakota. In the months that followed, Case was dogged by rumors that he had killed Greer, since they had agreed that they would not tell anywhere where she was going lest her father find out.
A few months later, Case met Leslie Goss and quickly fell in love. As Case was beginning to clean up his life after several months of hard living, Leslie suddenly told him she never wanted to see him again. The next day, he drove to St. Louis, where he lived out of his car until he was able to start college the next semester.
