Murder or Suicide - FBI Puzzle
What do you think?
Mystery Mob!
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.
Use the comment section (button under the image to give your answer), and make sure to include your reasoning as to why it is murder or suicide.
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My two cents is telling me that most people don't blow their brains out with one hand while holding a lit cigarette in the other hand. The thing is not even half-way burned down. If I'm going to end it, I'm definitely indulging in my worst habits one hundred percent before squeezing that trigger. I also don't think she'd still be holding the gun.
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.