Inspector Frost found a frozen body in a walk-in freezer. The victim had a suicide note clutched in his stiff fingers. Frost read it: 'I locked myself in here and threw the key into the meat grinder so nobody could save me.' Frost shook his head at the clumsy staging. Why couldn't the key have been destroyed in the meat grinder?
Keys are made of metal, which would break the grinder rather than be destroyed by it.
A metal key tossed into a meat grinder would jam and break the blades rather than being ground up, and the metal pieces would still remain inside.
About this riddle
Detective riddles are tiny mysteries. Look for the detail in the story that does not fit; it is usually the clue that solves the case.
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