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

Chapter 12 The Mystery of Susan's Suspected Death
One morning, in a high-end apartment, the body of fashion model Susan was found.Her neck was strangled and she fell beside the bed in the bedroom.It happened to be Detective Jack who found the body.He passed by here when he came to investigate another case. Seeing that the door was unlocked, he felt strange, so he went into the house to see what happened.The time of death is presumed to be between 9:10 and [-]:[-] last night.

Hey, this right hand...

Detective Jack found that the victim's right hand was tightly clenched, and when he opened it, he saw a few strands of hair wrapped around his fingers.It's permed hair.

At this moment, the working maid came.

"It was the murderer's hair, which must have been pulled from the murderer's head by the victim's desperate struggle in the chokehold. It appears to have been done by someone who hated Miss Susan. Among Miss Susan's acquaintances, there were No one with a perm?"

"The person with the perm is Matthew, who was an assistant to the designer. It was a young man who lived on the ninth floor of this apartment. He once proposed to Miss Susan but was rejected. He must have killed her with a grudge."

After hearing the maid's answer, Detective Jack called the police and went to Matthew's room on the ninth floor.

Matthew who came out to answer the door was indeed a handsome man with curly blond hair.Looks like he just had a haircut.Detective Jack told him about Susan's murder and asked him where he was from 9 to 10 o'clock last night.

"I watched the video in my room. No one testified to me because I was single. But I'm telling the truth, please believe me," Matthew replied.

"When did you get your haircut?"

"Yesterday at noon, but what does this have to do with the case?"

"When the victim died, he was clutching some of the murderer's golden hair. Just to be on the safe side, I want to compare it with your hair. Can you pull one out for me?"

"Okay, that's fine. You can just pull out a few. Let's check."

Matthew reluctantly pulled out two or three hairs.

Detective Jack took out a magnifying glass from his pocket and compared Matthew with the blond hair he had taken from the victim.

"Well... It's exactly the same person's hair! But please rest assured, you are not the murderer."

After listening to Detective Jack's very affirmative words, Matthew was relieved.

"Then why is Miss Susan holding my hair?" he wondered.

"Has anyone who hated her come to you lately?"

"No, no one has come lately..." Matthew was halfway through, "ah, I almost forgot, the maid came. Every Monday and Friday the maid comes to clean my room and do my laundry. Yesterday morning He even came to clean me up."

"Is that maid also going to work with Miss Susan?"

"Yes, yes. Every time the maid came back after cleaning, I found that my coffee and whiskey were less."

"So that's it. The mystery is solved, and the murderer is the maid. Miss Susan was probably killed because she discovered her theft on the spot, and she wanted to put the blame on you."

Detective Jack solves the case quickly.So what is the evidence?
[Answer] The difference in the shape of the hair tip is the key.Detective Jack used a magnifying glass to compare the shape difference between the hair taken from the victim and the hair that had just been plucked from Matthew's head.

Matthew's hair was just cut at noon yesterday.The ends of the hair were cut neatly, while the ends of the hair held by the victim were round, that is to say, the hair before the haircut.In order to put the blame on Matthew, the murderer's maid stole a few hairs left on the comb while cleaning his room, and put them in the victim's hands.

(End of this chapter)