At 3 AM during a howling blizzard, a wealthy recluse was murdered in his mountain cabin. The only suspects were the chef, the butler, and the gardener. Each swore they never left their warm bedrooms all night. Detective Cruz looked at the freshly shoveled pathway leading from the cabin door to the generator shed, then arrested the killer. Who was it, and how did Cruz know?
The gardener
It was snowing heavily all night, yet the path to the generator shed was freshly shoveled. A gardener would have had to go out during the storm to clear the snow, exposing his lie about staying in bed.
About this riddle
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