The victim was found in his office with a pen in his hand and a suicide note on his computer screen. Detective Vance read the note, checked the computer's system logs, and arrested the dead man's business partner for murder. What did the logs show?
The document was created after the time of death
The file creation and keystroke timestamps on the computer logs proved the suicide note was typed hours after the victim had already died.
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