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

Chapter 51 Extortion to Death
When the phone rang, TV actress Xiaomei was putting on makeup in front of the mirror.She reached for the receiver.

"Is the money I told you ready?"

As soon as she heard the man's voice, Xiaomei couldn't help shivering.

"Hmm... ah... trying to..."

"Then, let's deliver today."

"where is it?"

"There is a Guangqiu apartment near Guangqiu Station. Please come to Room 508 of that apartment."

"When should I come?"

"when do you have time?"

"Yeah, how about 1 o'clock in the afternoon?"

"OK, I'll be waiting for you." The other party let out a piercing laugh and hung up the phone.

Xiaomei stayed motionless, even forgetting to put the receiver on.After thinking about it for a while, she made up her mind and took out a capsule from the drawer of the mirror table.

"Give him the money in exchange for a copy of his medical records, but he must have copied many copies, so he has to be cruel and use this poison quietly... I don't know if there is a suitable opportunity..."

Xiaomei stared at the powder in the capsule, which was potassium cyanide, which she secretly stole from the poison shelf a few days ago when she was staying at the home of her sister and brother-in-law who ran a pharmacy.

Two years ago, Xiaomei was tempted by a TV director and had an abortion operation after she got pregnant. I don't know how the blackmailer just got her medical records when she was hospitalized, and used their photocopies to blackmail her.

When the phone rang, Jun Hao, a professional tennis player, was in the toilet. As soon as he heard the ring, he ran out of the toilet in a hurry and picked up the receiver immediately.

"Is the money I said ready?"

Hearing the man's voice, Junhao straightened up.

"Ah, trying to..."

"Then, give me the money today."

"where?"

"There is a Guangqiu apartment near Guangqiu Station. Come to Room 508 of that apartment."

"When?"

"Two o'clock in the afternoon, then, welcome to visit."

The other party let out a nasty laugh and hung up the phone.

Junhao held the receiver tightly and thought for a long time. After he made up his mind, he took out a small medicine bottle from the desk drawer.

The bottle contains potassium cyanide, which Jun-ho secretly took out last night from the highly toxic cabinet of the electroplating factory opened by his wife's house.The cap is sealed with cellophane.

An accident happened one morning, which made Junhao frightened. He played mahjong all night. On the way back, his car knocked down a middle school student who was delivering newspapers.In the early morning, when the sky was just turning white, but fortunately no one saw him, Junhao left the student who was hit and ran away at full speed.However, I do not know where the blackmailer saw it and took pictures of the scene to blackmail him.

When the phone rang, the innocent singer Xiao Qing was eating breakfast alone in the kitchen, although it was getting late.

"Is the money I told you ready?" Xiaoqing shuddered when she heard the man's voice.

"This... um..."

"Give me the money today."

"Where?"

"There is a Guangqiu apartment near Guangqiu Station. Please come to Room 508 of that apartment."

"This... I have an appointment to go out for a drive today, so..."

"Hey, which one do you think is more important, the deal between the ride and me? In short, you can come anytime between 1pm and 3pm. I'll wait."

The other party threatened to hang up the phone.

Xiaoqing held the receiver, thought for a while, and then took out a paper bag wrapped in a handkerchief from the drawer of the cabinet. The paper bag contained about half a spoonful of potassium cyanide.

It was potassium cyanide left over from the suicide of her literary cousin two years ago.Xiaoqing has a heart of admiration for this cousin.Full of sadness, she kept the bag of potassium cyanide as a relic.

"As long as you get back the copy, use this pack of medicine to finally solve the problem. It's hard to deal with blackmail again and again in the future. I don't know if I have the guts..."

She regretted the theft in high school.During the summer vacation, when she went shopping in a department store, she suddenly became obsessed and stole perfume and cosmetics, but was discovered and educated.Somehow the blackmailer got his hands on the police records from that time and made copies to blackmail her.

The morning paper of the next day (August 508th) published a message: "Interviewer Jie Wen died in Room [-], Guangqiu Apartment, XX Street, XX District."

The deceased was found by Mr. the owner of the apartment.The owner said that he went on a trip 3 days ago. During the trip, his friend, who was also the victim, asked him to borrow this room.

The cause of death was potassium cyanide poisoning.The time of death was inferred to be between 1:3 p.m. and [-]:[-] p.m. yesterday. There was unfinished juice in the cup on the table, and the juice was mixed with potassium cyanide.

The room was air conditioned and the air conditioner was on and the windows were open for some reason.The room was turned over, so the police believe it was a homicide and have started investigations.

That afternoon, from 1:2 to 1:[-], there was a power outage around the apartment for about an hour.The truck driver crashed into a power pole and cut the power line due to fatigue driving.

After reading this message, Xiaomei thought to herself: "When I came back from the apartment, the elevator just went down to the first floor and the power went out. Thanks to the good timing, if I was a little late, I was locked in the elevator. I was lucky when I was close. After finishing the work in a smooth manner, the man died, so happy."

Junhao also read the news: "Huh, it deserves it, it's clean like this. However, I didn't notice that there was a power outage at the time. I was afraid of meeting people, so I didn't take the elevator. I went up the stairs, but I met two people on the stairs. Housewife, bad luck. However, I wear sunglasses, so don't worry, room 508 is not the guy's house, which is a surprise."

Xiaoqing also read the message several times. "When I went there, there were two patrol cars parked on the road near the apartment. I thought something happened, and I was a little nervous. It turned out that a truck accident caused a power outage. Fortunately, the power outage was during the day, and it would be bad if the power was out at night. When entering the apartment , those spectators are all staring at me, but I put on makeup, sunglasses and a wig, so you don’t have to worry about recognizing my face, but what if the criminal police come to me?  … Ah, It doesn't matter, there is no evidence that I went to that room... In short, after that man is dead, no one will tarnish the reputation of the innocent singer."

So, wise reader, who was the criminal who poisoned the blackmailer with potassium cyanide?Why?
[Answer] The room at the scene is equipped with air conditioners, the air cooler is working, and the windows are open, which shows that the crime was carried out during a power outage.

Due to the power outage, the air cooler stopped working and the room was very hot, so the victim opened the window by himself.If the victim is still alive when the power is restored and the air coolers come back on, he closes the windows.Junhao and Xiaoqing were the only ones who had been to the scene during the blackout, so whose potassium cyanide poisoned the victim's room?

Potassium cyanide will turn into potassium carbonate and lose its toxicity if it is kept in an unsealed state and exposed to air for a long time.The potassium cyanide held by Xiaoqing was wrapped in paper for two years and has lost its toxicity.So, the murderer is Jun Ho.

(End of this chapter)