Crime scene: 162 mystery solving puzzles to find out who the murderer is

Chapter 151 The Hanged Corpse of the Actress
The hanged body of actress Anna Hosokawa was found in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture at the end of June.The site is a precipitous and inaccessible mountain, covered by thick snow all year round in winter.

Judging from the condition of the remains, the suicide was probably at the end of March.

In early January, Anna's scandal with her manager was revealed, and she has since disappeared.The police believe that Anna was forced by public opinion and exhausted physically and mentally, so she committed suicide here at the end of March.

Two large rocks that looked like Anna used them to step on rolled down the scene.She probably stacked two stones together, stepped on them, put a noose around her neck, and then used her feet to push the stones down.The length of the rope exactly matches the height of the stone.

However, the detective who inspected the scene in detail concluded that "this is homicide."What is the basis of the criminal police?
[Answer] First of all, please look carefully at the rope that hangs the corpse, it is made of hair.It can be said that this is the evidence that the murderer was forcibly strangled as a noose after being resisted by Anna.

In addition, although the presumed time of death is set at the end of March, it may not be limited to this.Since the state of the corpse will change with the passage of time, it is possible to find out the time and period of death by counting backwards from this.But when a body is soaked in a bathtub, wrapped in an electric blanket, or frozen, it can be difficult to pinpoint the date of death.This is a common trick used by criminals to create fake scenes and disguise proof of alibi.

Anna disappeared in early January.If it is this season, the deep mountains in Nagano Prefecture will be covered with limb-deep snow, and the snow will slowly melt in March.In June, the snow is gone.Therefore, it is not surprising that Anna was killed in early January and remained in a frozen state until June.

So, how did the murderer kill Anna?The method of the murderer (possibly the manager) is as follows:
On the grounds of "temporarily avoiding public opinion for a while", Anna was coaxed into the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture with sweet words, and when Anna was not prepared, he suddenly strangled Anna with the rope he brought.Then, he shoveled away the snow with a shovel, dug a pit that was as high as a person's height, and then hoisted Anna's body into the pit, placing two stones under his feet just in line with the ground.

Of course, two stones were deliberately placed under his feet to make people think that they were stepped on while hanging himself.Finally, snow was shoveled from above the pit with a shovel into the pit and the corpses were completely buried.In this way, Anna's body was in a frozen state, and the estimated time of death was uncertain.

Soon, at the end of June when the ice and snow melted, the people who came here found the body of Anna who seemed to have hanged herself, and the presumed time of death was concluded to be around the end of March.

(End of this chapter)