Author Topic: Assassinated in the Hotel Room [Solved] (Read 4938 times)

iago · « **on:** August 09, 2005, 07:07:31 pm »

A man was found dead in his 51st story hotel room, assassinated. The room he was in is locked from the inside. He was slouched in a chair in front of one of the windows in the room. The carpet below the window was damp. The only sound in the room was the sound of the air conditioner. The bullet entered the back of his head and was loged in the base of his skull. It was determined that he was shot exactly where he sat, and that the bullet had been fired from over 30 meters way. The man had been dead for several hours. Since the windows had been locked from within, and the glass unbroken, how was he assassinated?

trust · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2005, 07:11:02 pm »

He was shot elsewhere, while sitting in the chair (exactly where he sat) and then carried to the hotel room. You can lock the door from the outside, or they could have just locked it from the inside and slammed it.

iago · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2005, 07:14:31 pm »

Good guess, but no. It would be obvious if he was moved. I should have said "he was unmoved" in the puzzle, though.

Newby · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2005, 07:19:05 pm »

That's the top floor I'm guessing. Perhaps there was a sunroof he shot through?

iago · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2005, 07:19:30 pm »

Good guess, but nope!

Newby · « **Reply #5 on:** August 09, 2005, 07:20:22 pm »

Hmm..

I bet it has something to do with ice, if the carpet is wet.

Ergot · « **Reply #6 on:** August 09, 2005, 07:24:11 pm »

He was shot. Killer is in the bathroom

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Joe · « **Reply #7 on:** August 09, 2005, 09:23:17 pm »

Never said he was alone. The killer is still there.

trust · « **Reply #8 on:** August 09, 2005, 09:36:01 pm »

That'd be a big hotel room, >90 feet long at least?

iago · « **Reply #9 on:** August 09, 2005, 09:42:49 pm »

Trust is correct, the hotel room isn't that big

trust · « **Reply #10 on:** August 09, 2005, 09:57:51 pm »

Is there a hole in the door? The door was closed when the police entered, yes?

Is the carpet damp due to blood, or due to the A/C, or due to him peeing on himself when his body released toxins due to death?

Are there any holes in the floor?

iago · « **Reply #11 on:** August 09, 2005, 10:06:43 pm »

Quote from: OG Trust on August 09, 2005, 09:57:51 pm

Is there a hole in the door? The door was closed when the police entered, yes?

Is the carpet damp due to blood, or due to the A/C, or due to him peeing on himself when his body released toxins due to death?

Are there any holes in the floor?

No holes.

No the carpet is not damp due to the aforementioned factors.

Ergot · « **Reply #12 on:** August 09, 2005, 10:07:38 pm »

Quote from: iago on August 09, 2005, 07:07:31 pm

how was he assassinated?

He was shot by a bullet that had been fired from over 30 meters away!

Warrior · « **Reply #13 on:** August 09, 2005, 10:37:06 pm »

Hmm
He was facing the window with his back torwards the rest of the room and the guy had just entered the room,
shot him and locked the door from the inside before he left.

iago · « **Reply #14 on:** August 09, 2005, 10:37:58 pm »

Quote from: Anti-Newby on August 09, 2005, 10:37:06 pm

Hmm
He was facing the window with his back torwards the rest of the room and the guy had just entered the room,
shot him and locked the door from the inside before he left.

He would have been too close!

Nobody left the room after the man was killed.

Ergot · « **Reply #15 on:** August 09, 2005, 10:42:13 pm »

Shot from another room?
Shot from the neighboring building?

trust · « **Reply #16 on:** August 09, 2005, 11:02:23 pm »

There are no bullet holes.

Newby · « **Reply #17 on:** August 09, 2005, 11:03:36 pm »

He had to have been shot from outside the room. Damn you fools who think the apartment is 30 meters long.

trust · « **Reply #18 on:** August 09, 2005, 11:04:35 pm »

I asked if the door was open.

rabbit · « **Reply #19 on:** August 09, 2005, 11:14:21 pm »

A block of ice propped the balcony door open, and the man was shot where he sat. The ice melted, and the door closed (as hotel balcony/room doors tend to do). With the lock already set, it locked itself.

iago · « **Reply #20 on:** August 10, 2005, 09:02:16 am »

Quote from: R.a.B.B.i.T on August 09, 2005, 11:14:21 pm

A block of ice propped the balcony door open, and the man was shot where he sat. The ice melted, and the door closed (as hotel balcony/room doors tend to do). With the lock already set, it locked itself.

It was holding up the Window, but close enough!

rabbit · « **Reply #21 on:** August 10, 2005, 01:09:19 pm »

O.. I thought it was a glass sliding door to a balcony :X O well. I thought it might have been wrong because you never said which way he was facing.

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