A museum director was found slumped over his desk, poisoned. His computer was unlocked, displaying an unfinished email to the board of directors. The timestamp on the email draft read 4:15 PM. The coroner estimated the time of death as 2:00 PM that same afternoon. Detective Vance immediately realized the email draft was a forgery planted to frame someone else. How did he know?
A dead person cannot continue typing an email draft hours after dying.
Since the time of death was 2:00 PM, the director was already dead by 4:15 PM, making it impossible for him to have been actively working on an email draft at that later time.
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