1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 36 Mature Wisdom (2)
Torres - the victim's secretary.While on a voyage, he's just been fired for corruption.

According to the above situation, please judge who is the murderer.

The murderer was the victim's nephew, David, the heir to the estate.

To conceal the crime, as long as the body is disposed of, no evidence will be left, let alone on a ship sailing in the endless Pacific Ocean.But the murderer left the body on the deck, because if the body is thrown into the sea, the body will not be found immediately. This situation is generally regarded as missing in law (the statute of limitations for missing is 7 years).Then, the will has no legal effect within the limitation period, that is to say, David cannot inherit the estate until the missing person is declared dead.Therefore, David, who was heavily in debt due to gambling, deliberately left his body on the deck in order to inherit the inheritance as soon as possible.

Ant recognizes dead body
One day, the couple quarreled. The husband picked up the soda bottle on the table and threw it at his wife's head. The smock was wet in large swaths.However, when he wanted to raise his hand to hit again, he found that his wife, who was curled up on the ground, had not moved. Her temple was broken and blood flowed all over the floor.His wife died so easily that he was at a loss for a moment, but he immediately calmed down and considered how to deal with the aftermath.He packed the body into the trunk of a car and dumped it in a park in the suburbs.Fortunately, there was no one in the park late at night, so he put the body by the flower bed, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to bring the murder weapon—the soda bottle.Just to be on the safe side, he pulls a soda bottle from a nearby trash can and it's a fresh bottle.

"Let's use it as a murder weapon! Whoever keeps his fingerprints will be unlucky, and he will definitely be regarded as a murderer. Although they are produced by different manufacturers, the soda in the bottle will always be the same thing." In order not to leave After taking his own fingerprints, he picked up the empty bottle, put some blood of the dead on it, and threw the bottle at the feet of the dead.

When the body was found the next day, a large group of black ants had gathered on the shoulders of the smock worn by the deceased.

"Why do ants only gather on the shoulders of the corpse?" The criminal police who inspected the scene felt very strange.

"This soda bottle must have been used to hit someone, and the soda in the bottle spilled on the shoulder of the deceased. The soda is all sweet water made of white sugar." The appraiser said and picked up the empty bottle from beside the corpse. "Oh! It's strange, there isn't a single ant in the bottle!" He tilted his head to look at the label on the soda bottle. "The murder weapon is not this bottle. It can be seen that the corpse must have been transferred here from somewhere else." He resolutely Underground the conclusion.

So, why did the appraiser know that the scene was forged by the murderer just by looking at the trademark?
The empty bottle next to the corpse was labeled artificial saccharin. Ants do not eat artificial saccharin.Because the soda bottles used by the perpetrators were made of natural sugar such as white sugar or fructose, many ants gathered on the place where the soda containing sugar was sprinkled on the blouse.

The Mystery of the Girl's Suicide
Someone knocked hard on the door of administrator Larson's room. Larson opened the door and saw a stranger standing outside the door.

"My name is Andy, and I'm Carlia's boss. She hasn't come to work in the company these days, so I'll take a look. When I arrived at her door, I felt something was wrong in her room. Could you please go and have a look? "

A little surprised, Larson and Andy came to the room where Carlyle lived, and knocked on the door, but there was no answer.

"Could it be..." Andy screamed, slammed open the door and rushed into the room.

The room smelled of gas.The valve of the gas stove was open, the doors and windows were sealed with tape, and Karlia was dead on the bed, but she looked like she was sleeping.There was a bottle of sleeping pills on the bed.Anyone who saw it would think that Carlia committed suicide.

But Larson was a little puzzled by Andy's actions. Why?

The tape on the door was unsealed before hitting the door.

The criminal let Carlia take sleeping pills and fall asleep, then sealed the gaps in the doors and windows with tape, and then unscrewed the gas valve to create the illusion that she committed suicide by turning on the gas.However, the perpetrator had to destroy the adhesive tape on the door crack anyway when he went out.About two hours later, Andy knocked on the door of the administrator and asked him to go and see Carlia's room together.Andy, who brought the administrator to Carlia's room, knocked the door open with his body, as if to convince the administrator that the tape on the door had just been removed at this moment.Of course, we don't know whether the tape was pasted on the door, but his act of banging on the door for others to see aroused the suspicion of the administrator.

Obviously, the perpetrator of the scam is Andy.

missing passenger

The special sleeper train departing from Los Angeles Station at 19:[-] arrived on time the next morning, but a passenger in carriage A was missing.Not long after the train departed from Los Angeles Station, when the conductor checked the tickets, the passenger had already changed into the pajamas prepared by the conductor for passengers and was folding the changed suit.And, the next morning, when the train passed through the tunnel and the conductor came to make the bed, the passenger's bed was already empty.Because the suitcase was still there, the conductor thought the passenger was going to the toilet or washroom.However, when he got off the train at the terminal, the man was still nowhere to be seen, so the conductor reported to the railway public security officer.

"Because the door is not manual, he didn't go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and fell out of the door because he was sleepy. He must have been dropped by the car on the platform during several stops." The conductor told the public security officer. Say.

"I haven't received any contact from the station. If the passenger was kidnapped and forcibly taken off the bus at a halfway station, wouldn't it be too conspicuous to go down in pajamas?" The public security officer also shook his head at this missing case.

All that remains are a suitcase, a weekly magazine and a box of pastries bought at the Los Angeles station.He opened the suitcase and saw that there was a suit, shirt, tie and a set of toiletries inside.In the pocket of the suit jacket were 10 yuan in cash, notebooks, business card holders, monthly passes in Los Angeles, handkerchiefs, toilet paper, etc.According to the business card and monthly pass in the business card holder, the missing person is the acting branch manager of the W branch of M Bank.

"Are these the remnants?"

"Yes, that's all."

"It seems that this person was neither kidnapped nor abandoned by a car, but disappeared on purpose. If he was a person working in a bank, he must have embezzled huge sums of money and hid them," the public security official concluded.

So, what evidence is there to make such a judgment?

The absence of train tickets and sleeper tickets in the remnants is evidence.If you were kidnapped in your pajamas in the middle of the night, or left behind by a train at a station, the ticket would normally be left in your suit pocket.From this point of view, this person must have prepared another set of clothes in the car compartment, and after changing, he took his pajamas and got out of the car quietly at the halfway station to hide.

bizarre bombing
The capital of Sweden, Stockholm, is the birthplace of Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.One day, a strange explosion happened in the city.A single musician had just returned home from outside. When he was practicing his trumpet in the room on the second floor, an explosion occurred in the room, and the musician died instantly.

When the police inspected the scene, they found that there were some thin glass fragments mixed with the shards of window glass. It may be that a glass containing gunpowder on the table next to the music stand exploded.Oddly, there was no source of fire in the chamber, and no fragments of the timed detonation device could be found.If it is not a time bomb, why is the detonation time so accurate?It's incredible.According to the neighbor's confession, the deceased was practicing playing high-pitched tunes on a trumpet before the explosion.

Therefore, the police immediately saw through the criminal's methods, and they really deserved to be the police in the hometown of Nobel, the king of explosives!

So, do you know how the bomb is detonated?

The perpetrator sneaked into the house when the victim was out and no one was at home, and added a mixture of ammonia solution and iodine to the gunpowder.If iodine is added to the ammonia solution, it is safe and harmless in a wet state, but after drying, it is more sensitive than TNT explosives, and even a high-volume vibration will cause an explosion.

Therefore, the moment the victim played the high-pitched tune with the trumpet, the sound shook the explosives in the beaker and caused an explosion.

puppet murder

The case took place in 1945, the heyday of steam locomotives. The R station of the X line does not stop the special express train.One night, an express train crushed and killed a woman lying on the track shortly after passing through the station.At first the police thought that the lady committed suicide by lying on the rails, but later investigations confirmed that it was homicide.The victim was forced to take sleeping pills to fall asleep, and then moved to the railway line and was crushed to death by a train.Soon the police found the major suspect, who was the husband who was estranged from the victim.

However, when the police asked him to prove his alibi, he gave the following answer: "I was on that train when the accident happened. What an unfortunate accident that the train I was on crushed and killed my wife. But Anyway, I'm not the culprit. If you don't believe me, ask the conductor. He'll prove that I was indeed on this train."

For this reason, the police asked the conductor of that train to confront the suspect face to face.

"Really, this man was indeed sitting on the train. He came to the crew room and asked me about the time of the intermodal ship just after passing the R station. The accident happened after that." The conductor replied.In this way, the suspect has sufficient alibi to rule out suspicion.But the conductor seemed to think of something and said again: "Speaking of this, Mr. Police, the train made a temporary stop not far from station R that night. It was because someone jumped to commit suicide and braked suddenly. , but the driver and I got out of the car and saw that the one who was crushed to death was not a person, but a model doll.”

"What? Mannequin doll..."

"Someone must be trying to stop the train. What a wicked prank!"

As soon as the police heard this, they immediately saw through the ingenious trick of the criminal.

So, what method did the criminal sitting on the moving train use to crush the lady to death?
The perpetrator was the woman's husband.He first put his wife to sleep with sleeping pills, then got her on the railway line, then hurried back to the R station, and put the model doll on the railway line in this area.When the express train ran over the doll and made an emergency brake, he took advantage of the chaos to get on the train again.In this way, when the train then actually crushed the person to death, the perpetrator was already on the train, so there was an alibi.

flower of vancouver

One summer morning in Vancouver, on Canada's Pacific coast, the body of a 35-year-old woman was found.In the grass on a hill overlooking the bay, a plastic sheet was spread over which the body lay.

After identity verification, the police learned that the deceased lived in an apartment in the city and was a widow living a lonely life.Her husband was killed in a plane crash a few years ago, and she has been living on pensions and life insurance since then.She seldom goes out due to pollen allergies, likes knitting and embroidery, and is a withdrawn woman.

The police presumed that the time of death was the evening of the previous day, and the cause of death was potassium cyanide poisoning.Next to the body was an empty can of fruit juice mixed with potassium cyanide, which still had her own fingerprints and saliva on it.And found that her handbag contained a diary, which copied a poem that glorified death.Therefore, the police regarded it as a suicide note and determined that the case was a suicide.

However, when the elder brother of the deceased came from the capital Ottawa to collect the body and went to the hill to see the scene of his sister's death, he immediately asked the police: "Mr. Police, my sister did not commit suicide. If she committed suicide by taking poison, she would never choose This kind of place."

After that, he went on to say: "The perpetrator must have wanted to steal money from my sister and poisoned her to death, and then moved her body here to fake a fake scene of committing suicide by taking poison. As for the so-called suicide note, it was actually my sister's favorite since she was a child." The poems have already been copied into the diary. The perpetrator must have obtained my sister’s diary and used it. In short, please conduct a new investigation.”

At his strong request, the police re-investigated and caught the perpetrator a few days later.The murderer was a middle-aged bachelor named Harry, who had just moved into the apartment where the victim lived at the beginning of this year.When he knew that there was a wealthy widow living next door, he approached her with sweet words and tried to seduce her in every possible way.Afterwards, as inferred by the victim's brother, the perpetrator killed the victim and moved the body to the grass on the hill, falsifying the illusion that she committed suicide by taking poison.The criminal thought that he had successfully forged it, but he did not expect that the incident would be exposed due to the appearance of the victim's brother.

The strange thing is, how did the victim's brother see something wrong at the scene at a glance, and questioned the cause of his sister's death?

The victim's brother found that the grass on the hill where his sister's body was located was overgrown with yellow flowers, so he became suspicious of his sister's so-called suicide.Because my younger sister suffers from pollen allergies, if I come to a place with flowers, I will immediately sneeze continuously and runny nose.Therefore, she would never deliberately choose such a place to commit suicide.

thief without common sense
One Sunday at noon, a burglary took place in an apartment near the Pond of Verdun.During the five or six minutes when a single employee living in Room 8 went out to buy orange juice, 6 yuan in cash was stolen. It is said that the cash was placed in a drawer in the kitchen cabinet.The clerk left the door unlocked when he left at noon, and Collins, who was in room 5 of the same apartment, knew he was out.After listening to the owner's introduction to the situation, the criminal police immediately went to Room 10 to check.As soon as he entered, he saw Collins, a college student, eating instant noodles and reading comics.

"Where were you when the burglar in Room 8 went out to buy orange juice? What were you doing?"

"I've been reading comics."

"Didn't you hear any suspicious movement in that room?"

"No, there happened to be a helicopter hovering over the apartment at that time. The noise was very loud, and a little movement could not be noticed."

According to the administrator of the apartment, no outsiders entered the apartment at noon.Well, it must have been done by an insider.

"Is anyone in the other room?"

"There is a person named Renet in room 6 who should be there. Today is Sunday, and everyone else has gone out to play." After listening to the administrator's introduction, the criminal police went to room 6 again, and saw Rene lying in Western-style pajamas. In bed, watching TV while eating peanuts.It was the latest color TV.When the criminal police asked him if he had any proof that he was not at the scene at noon, Renet replied: "I am watching a song program on TV."

"Oh! What a beautiful color TV! Doesn't the image flicker at all?"

"Never. It's not a second-hand product, it's a new product I bought three days ago, and I borrowed money to buy it!" Renet showed off with a wry smile.

"Have you heard any suspicious movements in Room 8?"

"No, I didn't notice it at all, because I was fascinated by my favorite singer on TV, and there was a helicopter hovering obnoxiously over the apartment at that time."

"You lied, the criminal is you! You didn't watch TV when the helicopter was circling, but sneaked into room 8 to change your money. You should hand over the stolen money." handcuffs.

So, what evidence did the criminal police use to see through Genet's lie?
Genet's remark that the picture on the TV never once showed the slightest disturbance of snowflakes was proof of that.He said that while watching TV in his room, there was a helicopter hovering over the apartment, so even if it was a new TV, the picture would still flicker due to radio interference.

The Secret of the Wall

One morning in summer, a young man playing windsurfing found a small boat floating on the lake. Inside was the body of a blonde girl. She was stabbed to death with a knife. There was a piece of blood at the bottom of the boat, and some conchs were crawling on the wall of the boat. The time was 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the day before yesterday, Saturday.

Investigations soon led to the prime suspect, a bachelor living in a Baltic seaside town.The town is 100 kilometers away from the lake where the body was found, but this person has proof that he was not at the scene of the crime. Around the time of the crime, a neighbor saw him at his home on the coast.

"However, even if you have conclusive proof that you were not at the scene of the crime, it is meaningless. Because the scene of the crime is not the lake, but the coast of your house. You killed her in a small boat, and at night put the clothes The canoe of the corpse was transported to the lake in a car, and then the canoe was placed in the lake. This created a false scene that the victim was killed in the lake.”

The police pointedly exposed his plot.

"What evidence do you have to make such a judgment?" the murderer asked back.

"Do you want evidence? It's the wall of the small boat. This is the loophole caused by your negligence, which is your failure." The criminal police answered him with a sneer.

So, what do you say the evidence is?

Conch shells crawled on the side of the boat.The conch is a kind of shellfish living in the sea, and there will never be such a conch in the freshwater lake.Therefore, the criminal police knew that the boat containing the corpse must have been in the sea and then transported to the lake.

lying woman

At 3:30 in the morning, the telephone beside Detective Green's bed rang hastily.A woman's voice came from the phone: "Are you the famous detective Mr. Green?"

"Yes. Who are you?"

"My name is Mary Bernstein. Please come quickly, Mr. Green, my husband has been murdered."

Green took down her address.Outside the door, the north wind was blowing, and heavy snow was flying. "This damn weather, it's really cold!" Green said as he put on his overcoat and wrapped a thick woolen scarf around it. Forty minutes later, he arrived at Mrs. Bernstein's house.

The lady, who appeared to have been waiting for the detective to arrive, opened the door for Green as soon as the doorbell rang.As soon as Green entered the room, he felt that the room was very warm, so he couldn't help but took off his scarf and coat.Mrs. Bernstein was in her pajamas and slippers, with disheveled hair and a pale face."The body is upstairs," she told Green.

"Please tell me the specifics," Green asked.

(End of this chapter)