Could you solve a murder?

By: Ashley D.
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Could you solve a murder?
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About This Quiz

Do you have what it takes to get to the bottom of it? Are you a master detective? Let's find out!
You arrive on the scene, w​hat is your first course of action?
Enter the scene by route least likely to disturb evidence.
Check victim for signs of life - you never know they could still be alive!
Start photographing everything!

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You need to I.D a dead body, but there's no wallet. What do you check for?
Hair, eye color.
Tattoos, piercings, etc.
Their cell phone.

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What's the first question on your mind?
I wonder where they were last night.
Who did they talk to last?
Who were their enemies?

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Which would you check first?
Clear alibis of close friends and relatives.
Immediately look into phone records.
Run finger prints and check for matches.

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The following people were on scene when you arrived, who​ is your prime suspect?
Mother.
Boyfriend.
Neighbor.
None of these.

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You find that another person unrelated to the victim died in a similar fashion, what do you do?
Create a criminal profile - we've probably got a serial killer on our hands!
Check to see if they have any friends in common.
Write it off, the cases are probably not related.

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What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid.
Ribonucleic Acid.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid

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You question the boyfriend, what's your approach?
Ask what his last encounter with the victim was and go from there.
Good cop bad cop, it was totally the boyfriend.
Ask about the status of the relationship, maybe they aren't currently together.

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You need to find evidence in a seemingly empty room, where do you look?
In the heating unit.
In the rest of the apartment, this room obviously has nothing.
Under the floor boards.

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You enter the bedroom next. What do you check first?
The sheets.
Riffle through the victims belongings to see who they were.
Could someone have been in here before me, it looks...off.

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The police chief believes that this Danielle Steel novel at the house must have been left by a woman. Do you agree?
Yes, who else would read those books?
Books aren't gender specific.
It could be misdirection.

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In the kitchen you notice an empty drawer...
Shut it and move on.
Poke through to see if anything is missing.
Bag and tag everything.

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The victim died in the living room surrounded by empty beer bottles and a knife on the table, but no blood was in evidence. What can we conclude?
The victim was poisoned.
The victim was strangled.
The murderer obviously cleaned up.
Let's see what the autopsy says.
Stabbed by someone the victim knew.

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The crime happened in the dead of night, you..
...are still sleeping!!!
Set up flood lights and start working before evidence deteriorates.
Mark important factors but wait until daylight to continue the investigation.

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You find out that the boyfriend proposed to the victim and she denied him, what do you do?
Bring him back in for questioning and ask him why he didn't tell us this before.
His ask is going to jail before he takes flight!
Follow him around for a few days and see if he does anything suspicious.

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You're having trouble with the case, who do you turn to for advice?
My immediate superior.
My mother.
A murder you put away 5 years ago.

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The murderer and the victim have the same mother and father, they have the exact same birthday and yet they are not twins. How can this be?
They're not actually related.
We can't know until we've taken DNA samples.
They're two of three - triplets.
One was adopted.

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How observant do you think you actually are?
Honestly I am pretty oblivious.
Pretty observant.
Very, I don't miss a thing.

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Do you think the killer was male or female?
No way to tell.
Most killers are men.
Women are less suspicious so I'd go with them.

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Two of the following statements are false. How did the man die?
A. The man committed suicide.
B. The man was murdered.
A is false and B is true

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In the autopsy you see that the victims nails are bitten...
No big deal they probably bite them out of nervousness.
Irrelevant information.
I bet the killer bite them off, they probably have some kind of mental disorder.

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The autopsy shows no certain cause of death...
Well that's weird, I have no idea what it could be.
The killer must have left some trace, tell them to examine the body again!
Maybe they used a hard to detect poison...

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It seems that one of the suspects was taking their pet bird to the vet when the crime was committed. Who does that eliminate as a suspect?
The bird.
The suspect in question obviously.
Doesn't mean they weren't an accomplice somehow.

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What's the next number in this sequence: 3, 12, 24, 33, 66, ?
74
86
75

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You get a call from the morgue, the victim died of Batrachotoxin. What do you do?
Check the boyfriends house for the chemical.
Talk to the mother, she's a chemist isn't she?
Check to see where tiny poison dart frogs can be obtained.

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Your main suspect has suddenly fallen off the grid, what do you do?
Monitor his bank accounts.
Holdup outside their home and wait for them to return.
Trace their phone.

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You've been shot in the chest! What do you do?
Go home and stitch yourself up.
Keep running after the shooter, it's only a flesh wound!
Play dead and then call for backup.

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What does the phrase "LEO" stand for?
Law Enforcement Official
Law Enforcement Officer
Law Enforcement Offer

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Which crime show do you prefer?
Criminal Minds
CSI
Law and Order

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Are you the murderer?
Darn you caught me!
Of course not.
You'll never know...

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