THE CASE OF THE DEAD MUSICIAN

Anton Karazai a musician was hung by a cord, taken from a set of drapes, on a chandelier. He was two feet above a stool, which was not knocked over. When his son arrived he called the police. Wire had been ripped from the piano in the room. A journal entry was found on a nearby table saying that Anton had been depressed.

EVIDENCE

• Death by hanging
• His son and sole heir reported it
• There is a journal entry about how Anton was depressed.
• His feet couldn't touch the stool.
• Anton's neck was bleeding from piano wire.

RULES

• As a rule, usually when you hang yourself you die.
• As a rule, his son is a suspect.
• As a rule, usually when people kill, themselves they leave a suicide note.
• As a rule, his neck shouldn't have been bleeding if he hung himself.

EXPLANATION

• He must have died by hanging himself.
• The son could've killed him and made it look like a suicide.
• He probably committed suicide.
• The piano wire around his neck cut it open.
• Someone could've hung him and made it look like a suicide.

Claim The son

• The son killed his father.

WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN NEXT

• The police should question his son and see if he's lying or not. They should check the scene for fingerprints