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An old man lived alone in a small cottage. One certain Thursday morning, while the mailman was delivering a letter he found out that the old man is murdered. He immediately calls the cops.
When the cops arrive at the scene. They find two bottles of milk, Monday’s newspaper, a catalog, flyers, and unopened mail. The police find the suspect. Who is the suspect and why?
They suspect the newspaper boy, as Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s newspapers, were missing.
A famous chemist was found murdered. The police knew that two people were involved in the murder. They found a note that written by the chemist which read – ’26-3-58/28-27-57-16′.
After reading the note the police immediately caught the murderers. How?
The numbers correspond to atomic numbers on the periodic table of elements: ‘Fe-Li-Ce/Ni-Co-La-S’. Therefore, the name of the suspects was Felice and Nicolas.
A man is found hanging in a room four feet off the floor. There is nothing else in the room except for a large puddle of water below him. The police do not see anything the man would have climb on to hang himself. Did he commit suicide and, if so, how did he do it?
He stood on a block of ice and put the noose around his neck. Once the ice melted, he was hung, and all that was left was a puddle of water on the floor.
1. Plod
Hint: it's a person
2. Nark (Supergrass)
Hint: Usually works for plod
1. Police officer
2. A police informer
Chokey
Hint: a place
Prison
A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. He said “I have nothing else to live for. I can’t go on,” then the sound of a gunshot. After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide. How did they know?
If the person died then who pressed the reverse button.
Every day, a man used to cross the border on a bicycle with two bags of sand. The border officers got a tip that he is a smuggler. So the customs officers checked his and found they had only sand. As they could not find any evidence, they allowed him to cross the border. So, what was the man smuggling?
He was smuggling bicycles.
One winter day, there was a man standing in the middle of someone’s front yard. The person stayed there for several weeks without moving and the owner of the yard didn’t mind. Eventually the man left. Who was he?
Snowman
Rap on the knuckles
Light punishment
Porridge
Hint: connected with time
Time spent in prison.
Mickey has done porridge for 10 of the 45 years that he has been alive.
A man was shot to death while in his car. There were no powder marks on his clothing, which indicated that the gunman was outside the car. However, all the windows were up and the doors locked. After a close inspection was made, the only bullet holes discovered were on the man’s body. How was he murdered?
It was a convertible car.
A man murders his wife with a knife in their car. Nobody is around to see this. He throws her out of the car being careful not to leave any fingerprints on her body. Next he throws the knife off of a cliff into a valley where it will never be found and he goes home. An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and he needs to come to the scene of the crime immediately. As soon as he arrives, he is arrested
The police did not tell him the location of the crime scene but he arrived at the correct place.
A couple went on holiday for three weeks. They carefully locked their house, and had a neighbor check on the place while they were gone. When they returned, the wife was distressed to learn that, because of a power failure, she had lost all her fine jewelry. She had hidden the jewelry in what she thought was a very safe place. She was not robbed. Her jewelry was lost by accident. Why?
The wife had hidden her best jewelry inside her freezer in a bag among all the frozen food. Because of a general power failure, the freezer had gone off. A friendly neighbor (who had a key in order to water the plants) had tried to be helpful by throwing out all the bad food and with it went the jewelry.
Beak
Hint: A person
The court judge
to nab someone
catch and arrest
A couple went on for their honeymoon trip. But only the husband returned from the vacation and said that his wife met an unfortunate accident and died. The police arrested him saying, “Your travel agent called. You murdered your wife.”
How did the agent know that it was a murder?
The man had booked only one-way tickets for his wife.
At the scene of a heinous crime, five suspects, one of whom is the guilty party, are being interrogated by a detective. Each of the suspects gives one statement and it later transpires that just three of these statements are correct.
These are the statements:
Uncle Jack: Uncle Jim committed the murder
Aunt Mary: I did not do it
Cousin Stewart: It was not Cousin Margaret
Uncle Jim: Uncle Jack is lying when he says I did it
Cousin Margaret: Aunt Mary is telling the truth
Who committed the murder?
Cousin Margaret. The statements of Aunty Mary, Uncle Jim and cousin Margaret are true.
A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. A little while later, they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?
She shot her husband with a camera and then developed the photo.
Loot
money, which jas been stolen
Wide boy
A man involved in petty criminal activities
A couple reported a robbery. The husband told the policeman, that he thinks that the burglar presumably entered the house by breaking through the window, pointing to the broken window glasses on the outside of the house.
The policeman noticed that the inside of the house only a few tiny pieces of window glass particles scattered around near the broken window area and told him that it was not a burglary and no outsider has entered his house through that window. What made the policeman so sure?
When a window is broken from the outside by a thief, most of the glass will be found on the inside of the house, not on the outside of the house.
A girl got killed, the killer took her iphone, airpods, piano, and money. What did the killer take first?
Her life
A man kills his wife. Many people watch him doing so. Yet no one will ever be able to accuse him of murder. Why?
He was an executioner and she was sentenced to death.
Just desserts!
The thief who crashed his car escaping from the bank got his just desserts.
Receive what one deserves, especially appropriate punishment
Stitch-up
The manager of the local supermarket lost his job, even though he was a victim of a stitch-up.
Placing someone in a position in which they will be wrongly blamed for something