Post by Salzmank on May 5, 2017 16:46:28 GMT
I finally gave in and looked at sostie 's solution.
While we both reasoned that Jeff is the killer, I don't think the solution to the identity of the victim has enough clues. Point 7 is superfluous--a red herring, I suppose? However, the argument that Ben is still alive because Jeff is installing his computer next week is, as I wrote before, shaky. The puzzle says that Jeff wants to install Ben's new computer next week. The computer is still Ben's even if he is dead, just as property still belongs to a deceased person until the terms of that person's will are carried out.
The argument that Dan cannot be the victim is even shakier, I think. As we were not told the date on which the murder took place, for all we know it was committed after the marathon. Unless there's something I'm missing? Perhaps "in seclusion since the crime" suggests a long period after the murder? Perhaps, but that's hardly ironclad logic.
Anyway, many thanks for the puzzle, tarathian123! The piece about the identity of the murderer was very clever and deducible.
The argument that Dan cannot be the victim is even shakier, I think. As we were not told the date on which the murder took place, for all we know it was committed after the marathon. Unless there's something I'm missing? Perhaps "in seclusion since the crime" suggests a long period after the murder? Perhaps, but that's hardly ironclad logic.
Anyway, many thanks for the puzzle, tarathian123! The piece about the identity of the murderer was very clever and deducible.