Your goal now is to examine the Crime Scene. He himself will offer you advice from time to time. He will tell you he will gladly accept your help, and he will also instruct the guards to assist you in the investigation. The Palace of the Kings is a big building on the north side of Windhelm.

Go to the Palace of the Kings and speak to Jorleif. He will tell you to talk to Jorleif to get permission. After talking to all three witnesses, report to the guard and tell him you've interviewed the witnesses and none of them had any useful leads. Helgrid: She did not she the murder, but she did notice that the girl's coinpurse was still intact, so this was not a robbery. She tells you she heard a scream and came running, but Susanna was already like this when she got there Calixto Corrium: He says he saw a fellow running away, but never got a good look at him. Talk to the three people standing nearby: Sidla the Unseen: Ask her if she saw what happened here. I've been asked to help investigate the latest murder. Open your quest journal: Blood on the Ice Windhelm is plagued by a shadowy killer. He will tell you to ask some of the gawkers if they saw anything useful. Ask the guard if the murders are being investigated, to learn that they are stretched thin as it is with the war, and noone has the time to spend on this. He will tell you it is always the same: Young Girl, killed at night, body torn up. He will tell you another girl was killed, Susanna, from Candlehearth Hall. A corpse lays on one of the tombs, with some people gathering around her. From the Windhelm main entrance, head north, and then west down some stairs and towards a small graveyard in the street. If you have not been to Windhelm a lot, just go there, then fast travel to some other hold (Such as Whiterun), go back to Windhelm, and repeat this process a few times before proceeding.

To start the quest 'Blood on the Ice', you have to had visited and left Windhelm four times.

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