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

Chapter 71 The Bronze Statue Mystery Case
Erwin's wife was murdered.Erwin said to the police officer investigating the case: "Last night when I came home late, I happened to bump into a man who ran out of my wife's room and stumbled down the stairs. I recognized him by the dim light at the door. It was Jim Simmons. Simmons ran about 100 meters, dropped something, and it bumped a few times on the rocky slope and rolled into the ditch, and there was a series of sparks in the dark."

Police then found Simmons at his home and took him to the police station to assist in the investigation.

"This is nonsense! False accusation!" Simmons blushed when he heard that Erwin thought he had killed someone.

The police officer handling the case held up a bronze statue: "I'm sorry, Mr. Simmons, we found this thing in a deep ditch. If it was an hour later, the heavy rain might have washed away these clues. The bottom of the bronze statue is stained." The blood and hair are Mrs. Irving's. We have a clear print on the bronze statue--this is yours."

Simmons retorted: "I didn't go to his house at all. Erwin called me at 7 o'clock last night and said he wanted to come to my house to talk about something at 8 o'clock. I waited until midnight and didn't see him, so I went to sleep. Yes. As for the fingerprints, they might have been left when I played with the bronze statue at his house a few days ago."

The police officer felt that the case was very complicated, so he found the big detective Mike, explained the case again, and finally said: "Erwin and Simmons are colleagues. The relationship between the two used to be very good. Recently, the relationship has started to deteriorate for some reason."

After listening to the police officer's introduction, Mike said: "The murderer is not Simmons, someone framed him. The real murderer is..."

Do you know who the real murderer is?
[Answer] The murderer is Erwin.The key to the case is the bronze statue.Irvine said the thing Simmons dropped hit a few times on the rocky slope, drawing a string of sparks in the dark, and said it was Simmons' murder weapon.This is a lie.When bronze collides with rock, it is not easy to knock out sparks.Simmons is not a murderer.

(End of this chapter)