Detective Moss arrived at a snowy cabin where a man had been shot. There were no footprints leading to or from the cabin except for a single set of boot tracks coming directly from the back door, stopping twenty feet away where a pair of skis lay in the snow. Moss smiled and realized the victim shot himself accidentally. How did the tracks prove it?
The ski tracks went away from the cabin, but the boot tracks only went away too.
If someone skied away, their tracks would show sliding motion, not walking boot prints. Wait, let's keep it tight: The boot tracks went backward from the door, meaning the person walked backwards while stepping into their own prints.
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