The Man and the Murder
A man and his wife are at home one day, when they start to argue. In the heat of the moment, he stabs his wife to death with a kitchen knife. To hide the fact he killed her, he cleans the blood from all the clothes, cleans off any potential fingerprints, disposes the weapon in a lake, and puts his wife’s body in an alley where crime is common. Many hours later, the police call, tell him they have found his wife’s dead corpse, and ask him to come to the crime scene. When he gets there, he is arrested for 1st degree murder. How did they know he did it?
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The answer is they didn’t tell him the location because, in the call, the police only say come to the crime scene, without specifying the location. The answer saying the police found the knife is wrong, since they wouldn’t have time to look through a lake for a weapon right after finding the body. Secondly, the answer saying there was eye witnesses can’t be true, since it was in the privacy of their home. Lastly, the answer saying the alley had cameras is clearly wrong, otherwise crime wouldn’t be common in the area.