Crime scene: 162 mystery solving puzzles to find out who the murderer is

Chapter 114 The Cat Is a Detective

On a cold winter night, the weather has been abnormally dry, but a light snow began to fall at 1 o'clock this night.It rained lightly and snowed for about an hour.It just so happened that during this period of time, a vicious hit-and-run incident occurred in the outskirts of city A: a drunk man drove a car into a pedestrian and then fled the scene at top speed.

The driver returned to his home in the city 30 minutes later and parked the car in the garage in the yard.The garage has only one layer of nylon roof and the floor is cement.The wet tires were hosed down and the traces of the car getting in and out were also eliminated.Fortunately, there were no obvious scars on the body, and even the headlights were not damaged.He wiped the rain-soaked body with a dry towel and deflated one tire.

However, when he fled the scene, witnesses wrote down his license plate number and immediately found the owner of the car.At 11:[-] p.m., detectives found the escaped criminal's home, inspected the car stored in the garage, and asked for an alibi during the crime.

"As you can see, my car was fired yesterday, and I didn't drive out once today. Therefore, the criminal who escaped was not me, and the witness must have misremembered the car number." The criminal confessed.A few cat paw prints were left at some point on the front box cover, which were muddy paw prints and traces of sleeping cats.

"Do you have a cat in your house?" "No, this is a neighbor's cat, or a wild cat. It often sneaks into my yard and jumps up and down on the car. It's naughty." Indeed... If so, you It is not convincing to say that the car was shot yesterday.You can lie about nothing.But cats and cars are honest. "

The criminal police exposed his lie on the spot.So why?
[Answer] In the cold winter, cats like to climb on the front box cover because it is warm there.Because the weather continued to be dry a few days ago, if the cat had been on the front box cover, it would not leave mud scratch marks. Before and after the incident, it rained, and the ground in the courtyard next to the garage was wet. The cat was there at that time. Climb into the carriage to leave muddy paw prints.

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