“What reflections are my ocular orbs receiving?” grunted Mart. “I must be losing my sanity. I think, mind you I said think, I see my tomboy, inferior in age feminine sibling playing with a doll house!”
“Aahh my master plan comes together. I have finally rendered you incapable of lucid thought,” mumbled Trixie.
Mart examined the scene in front of him. Trixie was poking around in the old doll house that used to belong to Aunt Alicia and Moms, that Aunt Alicia gave Trixie when she was three. To his knowledge, she had never taken any interest in it at all. Well, belay that thought. Several years ago when they were cleaning out the attic for that city wide garage sale she voluntarily decided to keep it in case any of the next generation of the Belden begat daughters would be interested in playing with it. But from the looks of it, he seriously doubted that any progeny would want to touch the thing with a ten foot pole.
“What’s with all the food coloring, the red and silver glitter, and the red thread. And isn’t that the knife from our old clue game? I thought we threw that out after we lost so many pieces,” Mart continued.
Trixie stood up and displayed the scene in front of her. “My latests assignment for my forensics class is to either re-recreate a crime scene and analyze it, or to do a fingerprinting project. As much as I would like to play with fingerprints, I don’t relish the prospect of washing walls to clean up a lot of black fingerprint powder, nor do I wish to give Moms a coronary.
So I decided to recreate a crime scene and I thought that Aunt Alicia’s doll house would finally serve a good purpose. I ran across the Clue game as I was getting the doll house out of the attic, and when the weapons spilled, I decided that the revolver, the candlestick and the knife would come in handy. After all, you don’t get much blood with a rope, and the wrench and the lead pipe are missing. The food coloring and the red glitter represents blood and splatter. The silver glitter represents shards of a broken mirror. The red thread will show the angle of the bullet from the gun to where the bullet passed through the victim and cracked the mirror.
You see, in this scenario, the shooter’s bullet doesn’t kill the prey. Another perp comes along and stabs the vic with the knife, and then the actual killer accomplishes the death by taking the candlestick to the head. But none of the accused know about or see each other, so the case is to decide who just gets charged with attempted murder and which one is unlucky enough to get sentenced to the gas chamber.”
Mart rolled his eyes and said, “Well, you might want to have Brian around when Moms sees her old doll house, because after seeing this, she is liable to have that coronary after all. That or she’ll kill you and get charged with murder. Of course, with any luck she could probably get off if she made a claim of not guilty by reason of insanity.”
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