1 minute to solve the case

Chapter 4 Pure Thought (3)
Furious, Owens stood up and cursed, "You liar!" Then, Owens lunged at Kem and grabbed Kem's neck.

Kem struggled with difficulty, scratching the ground with both hands, his breathing became more and more rapid, and his resistance became weaker and weaker. At this moment, his left hand touched something, and before he could think about it, Kem picked it up and slammed it on the ground. Owens' head.Owens let go of his hand, he shook twice, and fell to the floor.

After killing Owens, Kemm immediately dragged Owens' body to the backyard and buried it, then wiped away all the blood, and carefully cleaned the sofa, floor and everything Owens might have touched without leaving a single fingerprint.Just as he was finishing all this, there was a hasty knock on the door.

Kem opened the gate and saw two policemen standing outside the door. A policeman said: "Mr. Kem, I am a friend of Owens. He told me to come to you in the morning. If he doesn't come back in the afternoon, let us come." Looking for you. Is he in there?"

Kemm replied calmly: "Owens? He hasn't been here, not at all."

Another policeman smiled and said, "Even if you can wipe off all his fingerprints and shoe prints, there is one fingerprint you can't get rid of. Tell us, what did you do to him?"

Kem followed the policeman's gaze, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat. This was indeed an unexpected place.Do you know where Owens' last fingerprints were?

Owens came in by ringing the doorbell, so there was still a fingerprint left on the doorbell button, and the reason why the police knocked on the door and came in was to not destroy the last fingerprint that had not been removed.

Cotton balls on a cat's tail
One morning, the caretaker of a building stumbled into the police station to report the incident.It turned out that when he went to the door of the famous writer Jones' house to clean up the garbage, there was an unpleasant smell of gas in the room.He knocked on the door hastily, but no matter how loudly he knocked on the door, there was still no sound from inside.

After the detective pried open the door, he saw Jones collapsed on the bedroom floor, and the room was filled with a strong smell of gas.After careful identification by the forensic doctor, it was confirmed that Jones died of gas poisoning. The time of death was between 100 and 300 in the morning.It seems that this was an accident, and the gas killer took another life.

The policeman took out his notebook and asked, "Did anyone come to see Jones last night?"

The administrator recalled: "A man—a frequent visitor, who seemed to be her agent, entered on the register as Lawrence."

"Oh?" The police quickly recorded this person. Since he was the only person who had contact with the deceased, he must be a major suspect.

"This Mr. Lawrence should not be the murderer." The administrator continued.

"Why?" asked the policeman.

The administrator took out the registration book and showed it to the police: "Look, he came at 800:1000 in the evening and left at [-]. Miss Jones personally sent him down and then went upstairs. Since then, no one has come .”

So it's really not him.The police also felt that the old man's analysis was correct. The deceased died in the early morning, and Lawrence had already left by this time.Subsequent investigations also revealed that after Lawrence left Jones' home, he went to a friend's all-night party, and many people can attest that he did not leave all night.

"Look! What is this?" A policeman dragged something out from behind the sofa, and everyone gathered around and found that it was a gray Persian cat.The chubby pet also died of gas poisoning along with its owner, but strangely, it had a cotton ball tied to the tip of its tail.

"There is a hole in the gas pipe!" Another policeman said, and saw a crack in the plastic gas pipe near the ground, which seemed to have been cut open on purpose.

"It's strange, this Miss Jones is really confusing." A policeman said, "What a cat, why tie a ball of cotton to its tail? And if there is a crack in the gas pipe, it should have been discovered long ago."

The officers looked at the strange slit and the hapless fat cat and wondered what was going on.Suddenly, a policeman shouted: "I see, the criminal is really smart! Arrest Lawrence, he is the murderer!"

Why did the police say Lawrence was the murderer?
As long as you use the backward method, you can find out the answer: the cotton ball on the cat's tail may block the gap in the gas pipe, and what the murderer needs is to let the gas leak out after he walks.

So, he first injected anesthesia into the cat, then tied a ball of cotton to the cat's tail and plugged the tube. When the anesthetic effect disappeared in the middle of the night, the cat got up and walked away, and the gas began to leak... because only Lawrence came But, so the writer was killed by the agent!

Two bottles of milk on the steps
This morning, Jack and John took a car to visit Mrs. Kimson who lived in a villa in the suburbs.As a doctor, Mrs. Jin Musen is a respectable old man. She saved the lives of countless children suffering from polio, for which she won the title of "Angel of Love".After she retired, she lived in the villa here.

In a blink of an eye, Mrs. Jin Musen came to the small yard full of flowers and green grass.Jack suddenly said to John: "Look, Mrs. Jin Musen seems to be in poor health recently. The flowers in the yard haven't been pruned for a while."

John and Jack quickly went straight to the small courtyard. They knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no sound in the room.Now, John was also worried. He frowned and muttered to himself: "Nothing will happen, let's go in and have a look..."

With a slight push from Czech, the door opened, which turned out to be falsely closed.The two carefully searched along the path covered with flowers and plants, walked through the garden, entered the villa, and finally found the body of Mrs. Kim Musen in the dining room on the first floor.

She was attacked suddenly while eating. A sharp knife pierced her chest, killing her instantly.The murderer then ransacked the entire villa, knocked on all the drawers, and took away all valuable items.

"How could this be?" Jack and John were so frightened that they almost collapsed to the ground.After a long time, the two people recovered.

"Call the police." Jack sat opposite Mrs. Jin Musen full of grief, remembering this brave and kind lady.

"Let's go out and wait. I've told the coachman to call the police," John said to Jack, "so that we won't have to worry about fingerprinting our footprints when the police come."

The two sat sadly and mournfully on the steps in front of the villa, watching the newspapers delivered piled up the entire steps, and the people who subscribed to it would never read the newspapers again.There are two bottles of expired milk on the steps of the villa, also ordered by Mrs. Jin Musen.

Jack looked at the ten days of newspapers and two bottles of milk, and suddenly understood something. He took John's hand and said, "I know who the murderer is! It only takes 5 seconds to think!"

The murderer was a milkman.Because only knowing that Mrs. Kim Musen had been killed, he stopped delivering milk here, and the newspaper delivery worker obviously didn't know this, and still delivered the newspaper on time every day.

Therefore, although the newspaper deliverer came every day, he was excluded from suspicion.After the milk delivery worker committed the crime, he obviously did not expect that the murder case would be discovered more than 10 days later, and his behavior of stopping the delivery of milk just exposed his crime.

blame tape
Tyson is an accountant. It is mainly responsible for auditing and supervising the financial operation of listed companies in the stock market, so as to let shareholders know the real information and prevent companies from falsifying.

On this day, an annual financial statement awaiting review was placed on Tyson's desk.This is a company engaged in floor decoration, called "Dadi Floor". From the report, this company is well-run, with a profit of up to 2000 million US dollars, which is rare in an environment of general economic depression.

Tyson found that many materials were unclear, and some materials were even used many times. He was thinking about calling the chief financial officer of Dadi Flooring Company when the phone rang.

"Hello, is this Tyson's accountant?" A polite male voice came through the phone, "I'm Catson, the financial consultant of Dadi Flooring Company. It would be my great honor to have lunch with you."

"I was looking for you," Tyson said. "There is a problem with your materials."

"At noon, let's meet at the cafe opposite your office, and I will complete all the relevant materials." Then, without even a chance to refuse, Tyson hung up the phone.

At noon, Tyson found Kateson who had been waiting in the cafe for a long time.He ordered snacks and coffee, exchanged a few words with Kitson, and then asked bluntly: "Mr. Kitson, have you brought those materials? Frankly speaking, I am not optimistic about your company's profitability. With such a large scale, it seems unlikely that there will be such a high profit.”

Kitson nodded with a smile and handed over a thick envelope.He said: "US$50, I hope you can give us a chance. If we support it for another year, by this time next year, we will be the largest flooring group in the country."

As an accountant, Tyson resolutely rejected Kitson's bribe, and he has his own unshakable principles of life.Kitson then changed the subject and chatted with Tyson about golf.The waiter at the cafe saw them talking happily for an hour before Kitson checked out and left.Two hours later, someone found Tyson's body in the bathroom of the cafe. He had been stabbed in the heart with a sharp knife, his eyes wide open, as if angry.

The policeman found a miniature tape recorder in his pocket, pressed the play button, and came the voice: "Kateson is the prime suspect if something happens to me...I refused his bribe...God, here he is ,what!"

The police immediately arrested Kitson, but he insisted that he was innocent and that someone wanted to blame him on the tape recorder.With no other evidence, the investigation stalled.

Smart reader, do you think Kitson is the murderer?

Kitson is not the murderer, it is innocent.

When the police press the play button of the small tape recorder, the tape will start playing from the beginning, and if it is indeed a recording of the scene of Tyson's murder, it will continue to go backwards after Tyson was killed until it reaches the end.The recording from the beginning shows that someone has listened to the tape backwards. If the murderer is really Kitson, then he will definitely destroy this evidence that is very unfavorable to him.

two moles

One day, the police station received a report that Xingke Commercial Building was robbed!
Xingke Commercial Building is a well-known department store located on the west side of New York City, less than one kilometer from the police station.Sheriff Nick was on the scene five minutes later.I saw smashed glass and scattered objects everywhere at the scene. Zhai Lindun, the manager on duty of the commercial building, sat on the stairs with a sad face, watching the chaotic commercial building.There is no greater loss to a store than a jewelry cabinet being robbed.

Nick walked up to Holrington, took out a pen and paper, turned on the tape recorder, and was about to start recording the case.He told Hollington that in order to solve the case as soon as possible and recover the losses, he must fully cooperate with the police.

Hollington didn't seem to wake up from the confusion. He murmured: "5 people...they have 5 people, guns...all with guns. They smashed open the jewelry counter without saying a word, and snatched All diamond jewelry, this is multi-million dollar jewelry!"

"5 people?" Nick asked while recording, "Have you seen what they look like?"

Hollington shook his head in pain, and replied: "A bearded man with two moles next to his eyes, others can't see clearly..."

"The light is so dark, how can you see the mole next to the eye clearly?" Nick was a little strange.

"It's like this..." Hollington stammered, "When they broke in, I was so scared that I hid in a row of containers. When the bearded man came over with a strong flashlight, I happened to pass through the container. Looking through the gap, I happened to see his face."

When Nick heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt him: "Mr. Hollington, if this is really a robbery, then I will arrest you immediately, because you are an accomplice."

Where did Hollington show his flaws, so that the shrewd Sergeant Nick saw through?
Hollington said at the beginning that he saw moles in the corners of the gangster's eyes, which was almost impossible under dim lighting conditions; and Hollington's explanation was even more outrageous, people's eyes would be temporarily blinded when they were suddenly hit by strong light, what? I can't even see it, let alone see the details of the gangster's face.

Therefore, Nick can boldly draw a conclusion: Hollington directed the flashlight, the beard, or the mole at the corner of the eye, and he lied.

murderer's negligence

Benjys was the most roguish hoodlum in the small town of Dorunk, a drunkard and gambler who made his living mainly by cheating and petty theft, and the police station became his frequent haunt.

On this day, he was thinking about going to the casino to cheat some money.At this time, Viktor, the nephew of the wealthy businessman Linde, came in and said to Benjes with a slightly contemptuous expression: "Listen, $2, I repeat, $2, let you do something."

Benji suddenly regained his energy, quickly stood up from the sofa and asked, "What do you want me to do? Mowing the grass or cleaning the car?"

Viktor took out an envelope and handed it to Benjes, saying: "Don't ask why, go to my study tonight, kill my uncle Linde, pretend to commit suicide, and put this suicide note away. 1 in the envelope $1 is a deposit, and if it's done cleanly, I'll pay you another $[-]."

Although Benjis was a well-known hooligan, at most he would only do some petty deeds, and he didn't have the guts to do such things as murder.However, seeing the thick envelope, he still swallowed and nodded.

That night, Benjess put on black clothes, a hood, and a big bag on his back, and sneaked into Vicodo's house.He smoothly slipped through the back door, walked through the long corridors and aisles, and came to the study on the east side of the villa.Judging from the faint light coming from inside, Mr. Linde was reading a book.

Benjes took out his pistol, loaded the suppressor, rushed in from behind, slammed Mr. Lynde's mouth, and shot him in the temple. Mr. Lynde died without a sound.

Afterwards, Benjis took out the typewriter from his backpack, put the typewriter upright in front of Linde, put the suicide note that Vicodo had prepared long ago on the paper outlet of the typewriter, and finally put the pistol in Linde's hand. Make the illusion that he just wrote the suicide note and committed suicide with a gun.As a precaution, Benjers also wiped down everything he touched, including the typewriter, pistol and desk, to avoid leaving fingerprints.

The next day, Benjers happily went out to buy a newspaper. If all went well, he would get another $1 in the afternoon.He walked towards a newspaper boy as if nothing had happened, but he heard the newsboy say something that made him shudder: "Unknown, someone forged a suicide note and murdered the rich businessman Linde!"

Benjes was shocked.He carefully recalled the process of committing the crime last night, and he was sure that there were no omissions, and the suicide note he left was also signed by himself, so there should be no flaws.

So how did the police determine that Mr Lindh had been murdered?

Fingerprints are an important basis for judging the case. It should be normal to leave fingerprints at the scene, but it is doubtful if there are no fingerprints.Since the suicide note was typed by Mr. Linde before committing suicide, there should be Mr. Linde's fingerprints on the typewriter.However, in order to destroy the evidence, Benjis wiped off all the fingerprints.

Such a small clue allowed the police to fully determine that it was extremely illogical that there were no fingerprints on the typewriter. Therefore, Mr. Linde's death was definitely not suicide, and the suicide note must have been forged.

Clerk's Wisdom

One afternoon, a couple came to a jewelry store.The husband is wearing a noble suit, holding a stainless steel thermos cup in his hand, and the wife is wearing a fashionable long trench coat. Both of them look very rich.

At this time, the husband politely told the clerk that today is their wedding anniversary, so he planned to choose some jewelry for his wife. After the clerk enthusiastically introduced them to various styles and the latest discounted varieties, the couple had a discussion , decided to try it on first.

Then they showed the VIP card, which is a card held by very few customers, which marks the customer's status and integrity.Therefore, the clerk provided them with a separate try-on room, and sent the jewelry in for them to try on according to their requirements.

The couple spent an entire afternoon in the store, trying on almost half of the jewelry, before finally deciding on a necklace set and a pair of bracelets.

Just when the cashier was about to check out for them, a clerk suddenly noticed that the lady standing behind her husband seemed very nervous, and her hand holding the stainless steel thermos was shaking slightly.The husband explained with a smile that his wife had a neurological condition, and the doctor told her to take the medicine every half hour, so he carried a cup with him, and he showed the medicine in his pocket.He opened the cup again and showed the clerk that there was a full cup of coffee in the cup.

The lady smiled and apologized to the clerk, and took a sip of coffee at the same time, proving that it was definitely just coffee.The clerk was a little confused, she always felt that something was wrong.But I can't tell what is wrong with it specifically. The couple have VIP cards, and it is impossible to search them.What's more, the clerk in charge of the reception upstairs did not find that the jewelry was stolen, and it was unreasonable to ask for an inspection.

At this time, the husband took out a tablet and handed it to his wife, who took the tablet and took a sip of coffee.Then the husband took out his credit card and prepared to pay.At this time, the clerk suddenly thought of something, and she called the police without hesitation.

Soon, the police found four pieces of jewelry in the coffee cup, which they replaced with fakes.After investigation, the police found that even the VIP card was forged.Everyone was full of praise for the cleverness and meticulousness of the clerk.So, how did the clerk see the flaw?
(End of this chapter)