Murder or Suicide - FBI Puzzle
What do you think?
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Last week, I stumbled upon an image reportedly used by the FBI to test potential candidates during their interview process. I sent it over to our Mystery Nibbles subReddit and it generated some fun really fun chatter.
So this week, I wanted to share with our email crew (I know many of you don’t do the whole Reddit thing), to see if you can solve it.
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Suicide...I like what everyone has hinted at. However, since it looks like a suicide, the most likely thing is suicide...walking and talking like a duck and all.
I believe she was writing a suicide note with her right hand (gun in right hand); while smoking and drinking from her left hand (cigarette in left hand).
She put the pen down with her palm facing down and the pen cap pointing in the direction that would indicate a right-hand position. The drink and ash tray are on her left side while she writes, I do not think she would reach across her body to tap one of the many cigarettes in the ash tray and that position would also indicate the desire to sip her drink from same side and not stop writing.
Once she was done writing, I believe she turned around, possibly to look at the bouquet of flowers (suicidal individuals are often noted as being very deliberate as they prepare themselves for their death, i.e. folding their clothes at the shore before going in the water, leaving a note to family and friends, saying "goodbye" as they leave the party for the last time) which placed her in the position to create the wound and blood splatter.
Murder. Wound on right side of head but splattered on wall suggests she was facing outward at the time. Cigarette in hand (as everyone else has said). Stool under table as she fell forward and to her left. One shoe (where’s the other?) would have still been on her foot if suicide. Also being in front suggests facing outward. Everything laid calmly and neatly on the table beforehand - and cigarette in hand - suggests she knew and was comfortable with the other person.
Gun in right hand means nothing - a lot of lefties are functionally right handed, especially with gross motor coordinated movements such as shooting.
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