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DeMark
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I think this is the new one. 
There was a man who had 12 sons. Every son had a car. Every car was parked in a garage. One day one of the sons(lets call him Mark) sat in his car, drove to the forest and commited a murder. Next day his father knew that Mark is a murderer. How did he know?
Sorry if I'm a bad English speaker. 
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #1 on: Nov 23rd, 2003, 12:18pm » |
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He spotted the body hanging out of Mark's trunk.
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #2 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 8:14am » |
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Nope. There was no body in the car (or around). Mark isn't stupid.
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #3 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 9:11am » |
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I guess my question is: does the father know that the murderer is Mark, or does the father realize that Mark is a murderer. In the first case, the father knows that there is a murder and then pins it on Mark, whereas in the second case, something about Mark, his car, and his garage told the father about the murder.
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #4 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 9:21am » |
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Silly me! Silly me! Silly me! The cars are not parked in the garage, they're parked outside! Sorry!
The father read about the murder in newspapers. He knows that the murderer is Mark.
sorry again
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #5 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 2:34pm » |
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Was it snowing and all the other cars have not snow underneath them, but Mark's does?
If this is so, it still doesn't show why the father knows that it was any of his sons. Maybe Mark was just out for a leisurly drive rather than on a murderous rampage and it was actually the neighbor who lived down the block that did it.
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #6 on: Nov 24th, 2003, 6:43pm » |
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Well, the victim was also a son of the father, and had a car. Both sons drove to the scene of the crime. Then Mark killed his brother. However, he drove his brother's car back to the house. (Maybe by accident or he was stupid or he intended to make a switch later or something.)
Then, his father reads about the murder and that Mark's car was found at the scene of the crime. So, he knows that Mark was the only person with the opportunity to kill his brother. But, this is all circumstantial, he could probably get off if he had a good lawyer.
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #7 on: Nov 25th, 2003, 7:09am » |
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Well done, aero_guy. It was snowing(or raining). Mark drove to the forest, commited a murder, got rid of the body, and went back. There was some snow just under his car.:
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #8 on: Dec 6th, 2003, 5:39am » |
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Like aero_guy said, I don't think, like the snow under the car, it would stick in a court of law. He may have just been out at work all day, during which time it snowed, so when he got back there would be snow under the car. In other words, just because he'd been out all day doesn't make him the murderer. After all, most people are out all day.
So a couple more possibilities...
(i) Perhaps the father and Mark had fallen out and Mark was trying to set him up. The father read something in the paper that would eventually lead the police to investigate him.
(ii) The victim was a friend of the family. Mark was the father's favourite son and unlike any of the other sons they both shared a passion for fishing. Of all his sons, he had only ever taken Mark to a special place in the forest. It was at this place that the murder had taken place.
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #9 on: Dec 7th, 2003, 8:27am » |
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Um, okay, not bad. My answer was the one I heard before...
Actually, my friend was a member of scouts, so she told me that version...
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Re: 12 sons
« Reply #11 on: Sep 17th, 2006, 9:40am » |
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Wow...
Um, so yeah, good riddle.
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