What happened?

Alyx Byrns, age 17, was found dead in her family's swimming pool. Her body was floating on a raft, and the water around her was filled with blood.

Because she was a well-known practical joker, the household staff initially thought it was just another one of Alyx's pranks.

Help investigate the case

The Mean Teen case documents are presented in chronological order in the Case Files.

• Click the Evidence, Interview, Biography, or Press tag at the top of the Case Files page to filter by document type.
• Click the Day tags at the top of the Case Files page to filter case documents by the day they happened in the investigation.

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Where do you start?

If this is your first look at the investigation, you may want to start with the Case Recap or one of these case documents:

• Incident report about the discovery of the body
• Evidence collected at the scene
• Biography of Alyx Byrns
• Interview with Rachel Moody, who called 911
• Interview with David Gregory, who found the body

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