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

Chapter 53 The Flowers Blooming on the Hill
In Vancouver, on Canada's Pacific coast, the body of a 35-year-old woman was found one summer morning.In the grass on a hill overlooking the bay, a plastic sheet was spread over which the body lay.

After identity investigation, 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.Since then, she has been living on pensions and life insurance money.She seldom goes out due to pollen allergies, likes knitting and embroidery, and is a lonely woman.

The presumed time of death was the evening of the previous day.The cause of death was potassium cyanide poisoning.Empty fruit juice cans laced with potassium cyanide lay next to the body.Her own fingerprints and saliva remained on the empty tube.Moreover, it was found that there was a diary in her handbag, which contained a poem that glorified death.Therefore, the police took it as a suicide note and determined that the case was a suicide.

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

The criminal policeman was taken aback and asked him why.He explained the reason by pointing to the yellow wildflowers blooming at the site.After that, he went on to say: "The criminal must have robbed my sister of money and poisoned her to death. Then he moved the body here to fake the fake scene of committing suicide by taking poison. As for the so-called suicide note, it was actually my sister who liked it since she was a child." The poems have been copied into the diary long ago. The criminal must have obtained my sister’s diary and used it. In short, please search again.”

At his strong request, the police re-investigated, and the criminal was caught a few days later.The criminal was a middle-aged bachelor named Jackson, 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 the victim's brother reasoned, the criminals faked the illusion that she committed suicide by taking poison and transferred the body to the grass on the hill.The criminal thought he had succeeded in disguising himself, but he did not expect that the victim's brother's appearance would expose the matter.

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

[Answer] The victim's brother found that the grass on the hill where the sister's body was located was overgrown with yellow flowers, so he had doubts about the so-called suicide of the sister.Because my sister suffers from pollen allergies, especially the pollen of pigweed flowers is more likely to cause allergies.If you come to the grass with pigweed flowers, you will immediately sneeze continuously and run out of tears.Therefore, she would never deliberately choose such a place to commit suicide.

The criminal Jackson moved into this apartment and met her at the beginning of this year.At that time, it was snow-covered season in northern Canada, and she didn't bother with hay fever. Even in spring or summer, she rarely went out, so it was impossible for Jackson to know that she had hay fever.Therefore, after Jackson poisoned her, he carelessly moved the body to a hill overgrown with weeds and blooming wild flowers.This is the criminal's mistake.

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