DC Comics' Identity Crisis: The Full Story
8. The Murder Of Sue Dibny
In Opal City, Ralph Dibny was on a stakeout with Firehawk to potentially thwart the sale of a Lex Luthor Battlesuit. Across town, Sue Dibny was preparing the annual mystery surprise for Ralph’s birthday. She received a call and began to seize in pain. She managed to contact Ralph just as an unseen assailant burned her body horribly. Ralph got there and cradled her dead body as he melted in despair. His present had gotten knocked open, with it revealed that Sue had been pregnant. Ralph would have been a father.
In the captions from Green Arrow, we learned that since his and Superman’s deaths, plans, contingencies and an organizational structure has been put in place. Various heroes with certain specialties were called to check the crime scene for clues and means of entrance, and bypass the extensive security the house had.
After the funeral, where Ralph is too distraught to speak, Captain Atom organized all the heroes into teams to go and check on villains who might have likely committed the crime; those with fire-based powers, teleporters, or those with personal grudges against the League or Elongated Man specifically. Ralph believed he knew who did it and asked his closest League teammates to help him find Dr. Light.