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**Format:** A video presenting 7 murder riddles, each with a brief story, clues, and a 15-second timer for viewers to solve before the answer is revealed.
**Riddles Summary:**
1. **Family Drama**: Identify murderer and victim in a dysfunctional family.
* Answer: Mother killed Son with Father's help.
2. **Footprints in the Snow**: Identify the killer based on unusual footprints.
* Answer: The killer is in a wheelchair or dragging a ladder.
3. **Lonely Man**: Solve a murder based on a mailman's discovery and household clues.
* Answer: The killer was the Mailman.
4. **License Plates Cipher**: Decode a license plate ad to reveal the killer's identity.
* Answer: The Butler did it.
5. **Powerful Poison**: Identify the killer of a poisoned woman in a locked apartment.
* Answer: Her brother Jim, a chemist, used arsenic in the wallpaper.
6. **Armed Burglary**: Expose a lying guard and uncover the real burglar.
* Answer: The Guard was the real burglar, revealed by his impossible claim of a silent approach through leaf-covered grounds.
7. **Homecoming**: Understand why Sally killed Carol after a friend's funeral.
* Answer: Sally killed Carol to ensure their high school friends would return to town for the funeral, easing her loneliness.
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**Riddle 1: Family Drama**
1. A family of four (mom, dad, son, daughter) lived in a house.
2. One family member killed another.
3. A witness and an accomplice were involved.
4. The witness and accomplice were not the same sex.
5. The oldest family member and the witness were a male and a female.
6. The youngest family member and the victim were not the same sex.
7. The accomplice was older than the victim.
8. The father was the oldest family member.
9. The murderer was not the youngest family member.
**Solution**
10. The victim was the son.
11. The murderer was the mother.
12. The accomplice was the father.
**Riddle 2: Footprints in the Snow**
13. A dead man was found in the snow with no visible clues.
14. Two parallel lines with footprints were found near the body.
**Solution**
15. The police should look for a man in a wheelchair or someone dragging a ladder.
**Riddle 3: Lonely Man**
16. A lonely old man was found dead in his suburban home.
17. The mailman discovered the body on a midsummer Friday.
18. The scene included Tuesday's newspaper, two warm milk bottles, and one cold milk bottle.
**Solution**
19. The killer was the mailman.
**Riddle 4: License Plates Cipher**
20. The richest man in Madison was killed in his home.
21. A detective found a newspaper ad with a hidden message.
22. The ad contained a cryptic license plate message.
**Solution**
23. The first letters of the ad spell out "WHODUNIT IX".
24. Decoding the message reveals "BUTLER DID IT".
**Riddle 5: Powerful Poison**
25. Lisa was found dead in her apartment with no visible injuries.
26. The police determined she was poisoned, not through food.
27. Three suspects were interrogated: Lisa's brother (a chemist), colleague, and the mailman.
**Solution**
28. The killer was Lisa's brother, Jim.
29. He used arsenic in the green wallpapers, which converted to gas in the cold.
**Riddle 6: Armed Burglary**
30. A detective met an injured house guard who claimed a silent attacker.
31. The guard said he was watching the house while the family was on vacation.
**Solution**
32. The detective knew the guard was lying due to the impossibility of a silent approach through fallen leaves.
**Riddle 7: Homecoming**
33. A group of eight friends was reunited at a funeral.
34. Sally, who had stayed in town, killed Carol, who was happily married.
35. Sally's motive was to see her high school friends again at the funeral.