Almost 15 years after DL-6 (24 December 2016), Manfred believes that he is almost away scott free. After all, the statute of limitations for the case has almost run out (after fifteen years, an unsolved case is officially closed, and suspects can no longer be apprehended), and no one has ever had any reason to suspect him in the slightest. It's time for the final act of his grand revenge to be placed into action. A while prior, Manfred sent an anonymous letter to Yogi, who had been living a lie for the past fifteen years. His lawyer, Robert Hammond, had him plead guilty during DL-6 in order for him to win the case, when Yogi was, in fact, still perfectly sane. He's held a grudge against Hammond for all of these years, and in his letter, Manfred explains to Yogi how to best act out his revenge. On Christmas Eve, Yogi calls Miles Edgeworth, now a respected (but conflicted) prosecutor, out to Gourd Lake, posing as Hammond and claiming that they having something they need to talk about. He also calls Hammond to the lake that night, only to kill him in his boat rental store and don a disguise to fool Miles into believing he was Hammond. Then, after he and Miles are alone in a point in the middle of the lake, he fires two shots into the water; one was to make a noise so that anybody looking at the lake will notice them, and the other was to make it seem like Miles shot Yogi. Yogi then dives into the water and swims to shore, leaving a shocked Miles alone on the lake, where he is eventually arrested on the suspicion of murdering Robert Hammond (since he was masquerading as Hammond while on the boat with Miles, everybody believes that it was truly Hammond and Miles out on the boat, and as such, that Miles killed Hammond while on the boat). Having Miles arrested is the icing on the cake for Manfred, but it doesn't end here.
Being the meticulous man that he is, Manfred was well prepared should his plan for framing Miles go wrong. And go wrong it did; by the hand of Phoenix Wright, the man who defends Miles and eventually reveals the truth behind Hammond's murder. However.
For the last fifteen years, Miles has believed that he killed his father, partially because of his own hazy memories of the events, and partially because of Manfred's possible hinting at this for the duration of their relationship. The entire case with Hammond has only served to reawaken the memories of the case, and new found guilt wells up in him and causes him to confess to murdering his father as soon as he is found innocent of murdering Hammond. Manfred knew this would happen, and has, in reality, been steering the trial towards this conclusion since the very beginning. It's his act of perfect torture, finally freeing him from the ever-present worry that he may, somehow, still be connected to the murder of Gregory Edgeworth.
...but all thanks to Phoenix, his final plan completely unravels, and the attorney not only proves Miles innocent of Gregory's murder, but manages to prove Manfred's guilt of it right on the day that he would have been free (the final day of the trial is 28 December 2016, the exact day the statute of limitations runs out). His plans have been completely and utterly shattered to bits, and he was arrested, sent to prison, and has not been heard from since.
This is, truly, every canon detail that is known about him or about the events directly involving him. If this still isn't enough then, well. I can't say that I didn't try!
Manfred von Karma: take 2 [3/5]
Being the meticulous man that he is, Manfred was well prepared should his plan for framing Miles go wrong. And go wrong it did; by the hand of Phoenix Wright, the man who defends Miles and eventually reveals the truth behind Hammond's murder. However.
For the last fifteen years, Miles has believed that he killed his father, partially because of his own hazy memories of the events, and partially because of Manfred's possible hinting at this for the duration of their relationship. The entire case with Hammond has only served to reawaken the memories of the case, and new found guilt wells up in him and causes him to confess to murdering his father as soon as he is found innocent of murdering Hammond. Manfred knew this would happen, and has, in reality, been steering the trial towards this conclusion since the very beginning. It's his act of perfect torture, finally freeing him from the ever-present worry that he may, somehow, still be connected to the murder of Gregory Edgeworth.
...but all thanks to Phoenix, his final plan completely unravels, and the attorney not only proves Miles innocent of Gregory's murder, but manages to prove Manfred's guilt of it right on the day that he would have been free (the final day of the trial is 28 December 2016, the exact day the statute of limitations runs out). His plans have been completely and utterly shattered to bits, and he was arrested, sent to prison, and has not been heard from since.
This is, truly, every canon detail that is known about him or about the events directly involving him. If this still isn't enough then, well. I can't say that I didn't try!