I have logically constructed a murder mystery. As I release clues, it should be possible to determine who did the deed and why. Unfortunately for you, detective, your officers are bad at their job. As a result actionable information will trickle in over time.
The first person to identify the murder, the murder method, and the motive (as well as the guest, gift, and car) may call themselves the winner.
The murder
Daniel Jenkins had thrown a private party for six friends. John Greene came alone but the others brought a guest with them. Attending the event were: Albert Smythe, Wesley Harper, Jason Samuels, Amara Samuels, Owen Johnson, Rohan Wooster, Sue Smith, John Greene, Bret Jones, Jack Dent, Daniel Jenkins (obviously), and Evelyn McMillan. Your officer entirely failed to ask who each of the guests came with.
One of the people present used a fast-acting poison which killed Daniel Jenkins (the host) and John Greene (one of his guests).
Your officers have done a seriously poor job of gathering useful information and then sent the guests home. As the sub-par reports come in, you must determine who killed these two people and why.
Clues
Clues will be posted on My Social Node. These will eventually appear here as comments. Here are some clues to get you started.
The victim’s journal lists five different feuds he was having with his friends. The journal does not say which feud was had with which friends but reports, a substantial debt, a potential love triangle, hurtful gossip, a broken promise, and a betrayal of trust.
Gifts from the guests were placed on the dining table. These were:
- A portrait of the victim’s dog
- A bottle of vintage port
- A rare orchid
- A bunch of cheap flowers from the nearby supermarket
- A bottle of expensive wine.
CCTV shows there were five cars outside the house. A green Bentley, a black Cadillac, a brand new white Tesla, a rusty yellow BMW, and a Ford (model and colour not recorded). Close inspection of the grainy footage shows what appears to be a large painting in the back of a grey Ford Mondeo.
You are told that the victims, Daniel Jenkins and John Greene slipped away from the party at least twice.
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An idle flick through the gossip pages shows images of Evelyn McMillian attending events. In one she is shown smiling with the victim in the other she is shown on the arm of someone else. Another socialite blocks the view of who the other person is.
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The Bentley is registered to Mr Smithe. No relevant evidence was found in the car.
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The bottle of port was not poisoned.
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The officer who visited Mrs Jackson discovered that she lends her car to Mr Dent frequently.
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The Tesla’s details are missing entirely. This is a whole new low for department incompetency.
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A lab report rules out the painting and the flowers as a poison vector. You have to wonder who even requested that report.
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The BMW is registered to Mrs Jackson. Petals were found on the back seat.
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Bret Jones denies any feud between the victims and Mr Johnson.
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Jack Dent’s financial records show that the man is nearly bankrupt.
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The Ford is registered to Mrs Samuels. The car had recently been cleaned. No evidence was found.
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A lab report concludes that the poison was ingested. A new lab report has been ordered on both the wine and the port.
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An old headline shows that Wesley Harper lost out on a deal worth £3.2bn after gossip started to circulate that he was facing bankruptcy. The loss almost bankrupted him for real. The rumour came from an interview with Daniel Jenkins (the victim).
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Daniel Jenkins’s bank records show repeated payments of tens of thousands of pounds from Jack Dent.
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Sue Smith works in the nearby supermarket
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Amara told officers that she and her husband almost did not come as the victim betrayed a confidence that hurt their social standing significantly. She refused to elaborate on the feud saying it was something they all wanted to forget about.
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Rohan Wooster and Jack Dent had a famous falling out over a business deal that fell through. The gossip mill says that the two no longer speak to each other.
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Bret Jones has priors for attempting to bribe a police officer. You would like to interview him but none of the officers thought to take contact information.
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Apparently, Albert Smythe once famously told a reporter that he would never drive a Tesla even if his life depended upon it.
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You are only now finding out that the victim received repeated death threats.
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Much to your annoyance, no one recorded the number plate of the Cadillac. Records checks for the other cars are still pending.
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According to Jack Dent, Daniel Jenkins and John Greene slipped away from the party together at least twice.
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The IT guys have sent in a massive report. The important data is that, according to emails recovered from Mr. Jenkins’s computer, he and John Greene had planned out the night with the intention of rebuilding relationships between Daniel Jenkins and the five guests he was once close to.
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Jason confirmed that Daniel Jenkins and John Greene (the victims) took drinks together in the office twice during the night.
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The preliminary medical report concludes that it was not a contact poison that killed the victims.
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The bottle of port is a cheap fake.
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The first 7 clues for the mystery have been released. An additional clue escaped into the wild early, if you can find it, you can use it. If not, it will be properly released this week.
By the end of the week, there will be enough clues to definitively work out who did the deed. However, if there are no claims to a win, I will release further clues next week.
Rohan Wooster told officers that Daniel Jenkins (one of the victims) was dating Evelyn McMillan but that she had other determined suitors too.
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Evelyn claimed that she did not know who Sue Smith was but that Smith probably came with Jack or Owen.
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Jack, Albert, and Jason all had substantial financial dealings with the victim
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Jason’s gift was an oil painting of Daniel Jenkins’s dog.
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The guests all report that Wesley Harper made a big scene over his gift of an extremely rare orchid. Which Evelyn thinks may have been an attempt at reconciliation after a serious argument earlier in the year.
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Rohan Wooster told the police that he came with Wesley Harper for moral support as Harper feared repercussions over recent accusations of gossiping. Harper publically accused Daniel Jenkins of gossip that damaged a business venture Harper had heavily invested in.
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I shall be posting clues to a murder mystery. Can you use logic to figure out who committed the crime and why?
The clues will be posted here. The full details of the mystery are posted on my writing blog (here).
Your next clue: Jack arrived in his beaten-up BMW which officers noted had carnation petals on the back seat.