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Jack breaks open the door of Sam's house.He sees Sam's body hanging from the ceiling fan of the living room.He immediately calls the police. Sergeant Peterson comes to the spot and has a good look at the house.He finds nothing unusual.Everything is in its proper place.There are no signs of struggle.All doors and windows are closed from inside.Peterson is sure that it is a clear case of suicide. But then, he sees something which makes him realize that Sam did not commit suicide. He was murdered!
What happened?
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #1 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 9:17am » |
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The knife in his back?
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #2 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 9:21am » |
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No.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #3 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 9:24am » |
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Someone switched off the light when leaving?
Or the ceiling fan is turning so madly fast that it is impossible that he guy attached himself while it was on. 
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #4 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 9:30am » |
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there was no chair next to the fan so he couldn't have possibly gotten on without someone's help?
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cuz everybody noe that the game dont stop try to make it to the top fo ur ass get popped
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #5 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 9:33am » |
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No to both.
Btw,I like Grimbal's idea of the light being switched off.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #6 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:27pm » |
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Is there a puddle of water anywhere nearby?
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #7 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:33pm » |
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No.Sam was not stabbed by a sharp ice slab. 
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #8 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:38pm » |
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Bugger.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #9 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:42pm » |
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Nothing like that.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #10 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:55pm » |
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If there were water on the floor, that would mean that someone tried to make it look like a classical hang-yourself-slowly-while-the-big-ice-block-melts suicide. But a suicidal person wouldn't go to such length.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #11 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:53pm » |
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True.But there was no puddle of water in the room.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #12 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:01pm » |
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The chair or stool that is knocked over to give the impression it was suicide isn't tall enough to reach where his feet currently hang. Therefore, the stool (or whatever) wasn't how he got up there and he must have had assistence (though that is a kind way of putting it  )
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #13 on: Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:18pm » |
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This part is correct.Now for the second part.How did the murderer escape?
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #14 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 11:25am » |
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It is possible that the murderer was of very close relation to the victim and had a spare set of keys, so he/she could have just left and locked the doors.
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*sob* I miss my mommy... *blows nose* huh, I'm on? oh right.
(thinks to self) Time for my speech to these college kids.
"Reason is more important than all emotions..."
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #15 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 12:15pm » |
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No. I said all doors and windows were locked from inside.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #16 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 12:38pm » |
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Was Jack the murderer? He "broke" the door to make it look liked it was locked from the inside.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #17 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 12:51pm » |
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When Jack broke the door open it was really locked from inside. But what you think is right. So now, just think how it could be possible.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #18 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 1:26pm » |
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Ah, how about this: Jack locked the door from inside the house then he broke open the door from there.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #19 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 1:57pm » |
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Good try.But I had something else in mind.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #20 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 6:25pm » |
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The room has a lock on the door handle of the kind that you twist and then close the door after you and it stays locked from the inside? Often seen in house bathrooms, etc.
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #21 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 7:29pm » |
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No such complicated stuff. 
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #22 on: Sep 4th, 2007, 8:22pm » |
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on Sep 4th, 2007, 7:29pm, gotit wrote:| No such complicated stuff. |
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Complicated...? Since when is a simple door lock complicated...  .... hmmmm... *puzzled* it would certainly do it easily...
Ok, how about, Jack had actually locked it from the outside keeping the key, and then he is the first one to "discover" the crime scene, in which he busts through a top panel of the door with the key concealed in hand. He then "discovers" the key on the inside, making it look as if it had been locked from the inside the whole time. (occured in "The Hollow Man")
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #23 on: Sep 5th, 2007, 12:57am » |
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Good work again.But this is not what I had in my mind.
Btw, the lock is definitely simple but the solution is even simpler. That makes the lock more complicated
(relative to the solution).
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Re: Suicide?
« Reply #24 on: Sep 5th, 2007, 1:13am » |
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Is it even locked? You said "closed from the inside" in the riddle...
hmmm... if there is indeed a lock... uses a pick?
(probably missing something painfully obvious... though it wouldn't suprise me considering my brain function at this time of night is bordering on zilch >.< )
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