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(Message started by: alien2 on Oct 3rd, 2011, 11:04am)
Title: Profit
Post by alien2 on Oct 3rd, 2011, 11:04am
Tom and Jerry are business partners, working in a multinational corporation. Tom is unscrupulously ambitious, as profit is the most important thing in his life. He kills Jerry so that he gets promoted and gets his office. The murder occurs at 10 pm on a day off in Jerry’s house. Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective, tomorrow visits the corporation with a policeman. After talking to the manager in privacy, the detective sees Tom. He says to him that Jerry was shot yesterday and that he died instantly. Tom starts to cry, pretending that he’s sad, saying he didn’t know that. He then asks him where he was at the time of the shooting. Tom replies that he was sleeping in his bed. Columbo then says to the policeman to handcuff Tom and read him his rights. Why?
Title: Re: Profit
Post by Grimbal on Oct 4th, 2011, 5:34am
[hide]Maybe Tom was sleeping the whole day through?[/hide]
Title: Re: Profit
Post by playful on Oct 4th, 2011, 5:43am
[hideb]Jerry's house is also Tom's house. Jerry was shot in his bedroom, which is also Tom's bedroom (they were partners not just in business but in life). If Tom had been in bed, he would already be aware of Jerry's death, and his surprise would be an act. He must be lying.[/hideb]
Title: Re: Profit
Post by pex on Oct 4th, 2011, 10:48am
[hide]Columbo never mentioned the time of the murder.[/hide]
Title: Re: Profit
Post by alien2 on Oct 4th, 2011, 11:01am

on 10/04/11 at 05:34:35, Grimbal wrote:
[hide]Maybe Tom was sleeping the whole day through?[/hide]



on 10/04/11 at 05:43:04, playful wrote:
[hideb]Jerry's house is also Tom's house. Jerry was shot in his bedroom, which is also Tom's bedroom (they were partners not just in business but in life). If Tom had been in bed, he would already be aware of Jerry's death, and his surprise would be an act. He must be lying.[/hideb]

Focus on what was said in the riddle. There are no omitted details.



on 10/04/11 at 10:48:48, pex wrote:
[hide]Columbo never mentioned the time of the murder.[/hide]

You win. 8)
Title: Re: Profit
Post by playful on Oct 4th, 2011, 12:53pm

Quote:
There are no omitted details.


Thanks, I'll bear that in mind for the next one.
Title: Re: Profit
Post by ThudnBlunder on Oct 4th, 2011, 1:50pm
Nice one, alien2.  :D

I bet that's a stock-in-trade trick question with homicide detectives.


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