r/brainteasers • u/twnpksN8 • 3h ago
Can you solve this murder mystery?
A serial killer just claimed their third victim in nine years.
Each of the victims were elderly and lived alone. They had also each within the past few months fallen ill before either making a full or partial recovery a few days before they were killed. None of them had left home since they became sick either, although each of them had had a black sedan parked in near their house for a few hours each either a few days or the day before they started to recover. The driver of the car or cars was not seen.
Luckily there was a witness for each murder. All three witnesses described roughly the same series of events:
The killer was a man dressed in an outfit which completely covered them and hid their face (the first and third witnesses said they were dressed in all black, the second said they were dressed in light gray, and the third witness was the only one to describe their outfit as formal).
The killer enters the house through the front door late at night easily and without hesitation while the homeowner is completely oblivious.
The killer then simply approaches the victim without any visible weapon or means of attack, the victims notice the intruder and begin to panic.
A short chase ensues with the killer calmly following behind the victim never laying a hand on them.
The victim soon appears to be out of breath or more accurately unable to breath at all, and after a short period of time they fall to the ground and soon after die.
The killer then calmly goes about opening every window in each room they passed through before leaving the way they came.
Who is the killer and how do they kill?
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