Detective Drake entered a freezing cold cabin where a man sat shivering by an unlit fireplace. The victim claimed someone broke in and stole his only box of matches. Drake looked at the man's hands and arrested him for arson at a nearby building. What did Drake see?
Burns on his hands
If the man's hands were burned from setting a nearby building on fire, he wouldn't need matches to light a fire; he would have used a different ignition source or sustained injuries from the blaze.
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