Inspector Cruz arrived at a crime scene where a victim sat at a desk with a glowing computer monitor. The document on screen read: 'I cannot go on.' The digital timestamp showed the file was last modified at 3:14 AM. The coroner estimated death occurred at midnight. Cruz arrested the business partner. Why?
A dead person cannot modify a computer document three hours after their time of death.
The digital timestamp postdating the verified time of death proves someone else tampered with the computer afterward.
About this riddle
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