Case File: The Death of Pentheus
Police Reports
Case Description: Complainant (City of Thebes) accuses defendant (Dionysus) of murdering King Pentheus of Thebes. Dionysus caused Agave (Pentheus' mother) to go mad and rip off her son's head.
Case Status: Case pending. All investigators sent to question the defendant have suffered similar dismemberment. Full details recorded by Euripides in The Bacchae.