FILE No.86Unsolved
One night, the master of a holiday villa was stabbed to death. The window of the room is smashed. Most of the glass lies outside, in the garden. There are only a few fragments on the floor inside the room.
His wife says, "A burglar must have broken the window, got in, stabbed my husband and run away." However, the window latch was still locked from the inside, with no sign of tampering.
What can be deduced from the scene?
If you get stuck, open the hints one at a time, in order.
Which way does glass fall when broken from outside?
Where is most of the glass here?
What was the state of the latch?
What can be deduced from the scene?
Choose the answer closest to the truth.
Someone inside broke the window from within to make it look like a break-in from outside
The answer is: someone inside broke the window from within to make it look like a break-in from outside.
When a window is struck from outside, most of the glass typically falls inside the room. Here, most of the glass is in the garden, so the window was most likely broken from the inside. In addition, the latch was locked from the inside. A burglar from outside would have had to unlock it to enter.
It is very likely the burglary was staged.
We link "broken window" straight to "someone broke in from outside."
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