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Slip or Trip Investigative Report

Slip or Trip Investigative Report

Q Slip or Trip? - Mystery #2 Last week, you produced an "Investigative Report" - a coherent, logical ARGUMENT - in which you became a detective who attempted to "solve" the crime. This week, we will analyze and break down your writing for incoherent, illogical, and often obfuscated (made more confusing) writing. But before we do so, try to solve this particular mystery below: Slip or Trip? You are required to submit an Investigative Report (just like the one you wrote for the Lunchroom Murder Mystery!) for this particular case. You will have to follow the same directions from the Lunchroom Murder Mystery when it comes to formatting your writing in the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (ClEvR) format. Read carefully! EACH of your paragraphs in your Slip or Trip Investigative Report should start with a CLAIM that YOU come up with. Unlike the Lunchroom Murder, there are no specific questions that allow you to form specific claims for this mystery - the only question at hand is at the bottom highlighted in yellow. At five-feet-six and a hundred and ten pounds, Queenie Volupides was a sight to behold and to clasp. When she tore out of the house after a tiff with her husband, Arthur, she went to the country club where there was a party going on. She left the club shortly before one in the morning and invited a few friends to follow her home and have one more drink. They got to the Volupides house about ten minutes after Queenie, who met them at the door and said, “Something terrible happened. Arthur slipped and fell on the stairs. He was coming down for another drink—he still had the glass in his hand— and I think he’s dead. Oh, my God—what shall I do?” The autopsy conducted later concluded that Arthur died from a wound on the head and confirmed that he’d been drunk. All the evidence you need is in this report AND in the picture. You cannot use just one. What really happened? Who killed Arthur, how, and why?

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After some lengthy and difficult analysis of the crime scene, I concluded that it was not an accident and Arthur never really tripped and fell down the stairs. There are evidences like undisturbed wall hangings, glass in the victim’s hand and also the victim facing upwards. The first thing that comes to mind is that if a person is falling then there is high chance that the person will try to grab the wall so that he can stop the fall but here the wall hangings are in perfect condition which proves that he never really tripped.