A victim was found in a locked hotel room with a single gunshot wound. A tape recorder was found playing on the nightstand. When Detective Reed pressed rewind, he heard a gunshot recording followed by the sound of a window breaking, then silence. Reed knew immediately it was a staged murder-suicide. Why?
If the victim shot themselves, they could not have rewound the tape recorder and pressed play afterward to record the sequence.
A dead person cannot operate audio equipment to stage a complex sequence of sounds.
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