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How to commit murder inside a locked room

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Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without reading mode, that site is unusable. All those animated ads and banners are the blink tag all over again.

> Without reading mode You answered yourself. Read View is great even with well-behaved sites, use it generously. Edit: I retract my comment, Reader View shows about the last third of the article, and I had already blocked JavaScript there in a previous interaction. Vanity Fair sucks.

Or is it reader view the one that sucks?

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...

Calling that article excellent is almost understatement. One of the most fascinating true crime articles I've read. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...

Without reading mode, that site is unusable. All those animated ads and banners are the blink tag all over again.

I find Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, followed by a visit to my favorite text editor often works like a champ -- even when scrolling is disabled and only a paragraph or two is visible.

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…

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That just gave me a crazy idea for a game, based on some similar books I've read online. Make a game where, say, you revive every time and your goal is to survive some set period of time but it's a mystery how to do so as many things are out to kill you. Say you have X hours before a large bomb will wipe out your city or whatever and several folks are waiting to kill you in the mean time or such and the goal is basic…

Edge of Tomorrow builds on a similar premise (Tom Cruise explores a decision tree): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1631867/

Also the recent Chinese drama "Reset" about two people stuck on a bus with a bomber and apparently no way to prevent the explosion, waking up each time only a few minutes before.

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…

From the systems security mindset - the doors and the windows are only the most obvious ways to enter the room, not the only ones. If you secure them very well, then the walls, floor and the ceiling become the best points of entry. (Chimneys are kind of obvious)

Maybe the soon-to-be murderer just lifted the ceiling with a crane, killed the victim (thus becoming the murderer) and put the ceiling back in its place?

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…

Depending on the room, the murderer could have blocked the chimney/windows from fresh air, letting the victim to suffocate to death.

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...

this was a great read. I just had to keep reading, almost felt like following the people solving the mystery.

Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…

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Re: How to commit murder inside a locked room

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How to commit a murder inside a locked room, off the top of my head: - Are the windows locked? Otherwise it's a rock climber who can climb the side of the building. Some buildings are not that difficult to climb for a good climber. - The murderer was not in the room when the murder happened. Poison or a trap of some sort. (Kinda boring.) - The murderer was in the room when the murder happened, but locked the door beh…

- The murderer completely seals the room from the outside so that no oxygen can go in, and waits for the victim to suffocate.

- Similar but just prevents the victim coming out long enough for them to die of thirst.

- Murderer comes in with heavy machinery and breaks down the whole building except for the locked room, then lifts the locked room and drops it off a cliff.

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