Mysterious Evidence
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
Ray Whitcombe was found dead in his office at his desk. The police have narrowed the suspects down to three people:
Mrs. Barbara Whitcombe, Ray's wife
Mr. Jason McCubbins, Ray's business partner
Mr. Harold Nichols, Ray's best friend
All three visited Mr. Whitcombe the day of his murder, but all three provided the police with stories of explanation as to the reason for their visit.
Police found Mr. Whitcombe with his wrist watch still on his right arm, a torn up picture of his wife laying on the floor beside the trash can, and an ink pen in his right hand. On the desk, the police found a name plate, a telephone that was off the hook, and a personal calendar turned to the July 5th page with 7B91011 written on it. After examining this evidence, the police knew their suspect.
Who was it?
Answer
Jason McCubbins, Ray's business partner.
The calendar was the clue to solving this murder. The police realized that since Mr. Whitcombe was wearing his watch on his right arm, he must have been left-handed. Realizing that the number on the calendar was written in a hurry and with his opposite hand, police matched the written number with the months of the year. So the B was an 8, thereby giving us 7-8-9-10-11: July, August, September, October, November. Use the first letter of each month and it spells J-A-S-O-N.
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dddlite   
Dec 21, 2007
| Good one! I didn't get, but I really enjoyed it. Well written!  |
4demo
Dec 22, 2007
| Wow, very clever! Naturally, I had no idea who did it...  |
dogg6pound9
Dec 22, 2007
| another great one cheese... i got the right answer for the wrong reason though... i assumed the murderer stuck the pen in his hand, thus being the wrong hand because of the watch... this led me to conclude that his business partner was guilty because his wife and best friend would have known he was left-handed... (strange but true, that is how i came up with my answer... please dont laugh at me lol!!!) |
dudebomb93
Dec 23, 2007
| that was a great teaser i liked it, into my faves it goes |
friesaregood
Dec 24, 2007
| But how were we supposed to know he was left handed or that it was written in a hurry? |
hipeople
Dec 24, 2007
| hi that was really great i didntget it though |
daliz
Dec 25, 2007
| dogg6pound9...I had the exact same exact thought process. Goodness knows why I overlooked the writing-clearly the most important part. Interesting teaser! |
micar_ron
Dec 29, 2007
| i thought i knew it....  |
jamesbond
Dec 30, 2007
| nice teaser...but why didnt he simple write "jason" ? |
al111 
Dec 30, 2007
| i liked it but wat was the torn up picture of his wife about |
nerdyiscool 
Jan 01, 2008
| bit of an old trick, 7891011 written on a calendar to mean jason. Liked the b thing though. |
nidhogg
Jan 03, 2008
| Brilliant, well done. I thought this teaser was fab, but a bit easy. |
sweetpretty1
Jan 06, 2008
| Crazy..
You Copied this from Encyclopedia Brown.
I read that book...
The maker copied it... |
MzPink85
Jan 07, 2008
| ok, I think the concept was good - however we wouldn;'t know that he was left handed because of the hand on which he wore his watch. I'm right handed, and wear my watch on my right arm... and I'm sure there are other people who do the same... other than that, good teaser |
scallio
Jan 15, 2008
| Very clever. I hope they also find a fingerprint or some DNA evidence because I doubt this alone will be enough to convict Mr. McCubbins.
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ikilleddoehead
Jan 16, 2008
| wow i do NOT think like that.
why would he write his name in the initials of the months by numbers? he is asking to be caught... |
smartymarty
Feb 01, 2008
| I noted that he might be left handed, and his penmanship would be bad writing with his right hand, and the B might be an 8. But that is just stupid to write the numbers of the months and then use the first letter of the month to spell Jason. Why didn't he just write Jason? Why did he put it in code? It wasn't fun to me. |
grilledcheese
Feb 01, 2008
| If it wasn't in code, it wouldn't be a fun teaser  |
PR3Ci0uZ_F
Feb 06, 2008
| if he was dying how did he manage to have enough time to think that the first letter of those months spelled Jason, instead of simply using all that time to call the authorities or spell out "Jason" ?
haha. |
kiddo230508
Feb 16, 2008
| too much thinking isnt what makes teasers fun, its the teaser itself.
i loved it. nice teaser "grilledcheese"
lol. xD |
mudbogger
Feb 19, 2008
| Great teaser!!
I love to read murder mystery books,so I had FUN!!!
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hipeople
Mar 03, 2008
| hey cams i didnt know u put htis one in its awesome |
Writeaway
Mar 10, 2008
| Great teaser. Well thought out n' loads of fun.
I do have one question though... Why was he writing with his alternate hand, and why hurriedly? Was this his dying message? I felt like that part was sort-of-kind-of (maybe) missing (a little) in the explanation, but it really was a great teaser all and all.
Thanks! |
luckypuppy
Mar 17, 2008
| never would have gotten that in a million years... i wear my watch on my right wrist even though I am right-handed. |
soccerboo21
Mar 20, 2008
| well maybe he didnt just simply write jason because if jason saw him write it or after he killed him and jason saw it he would have just scrappes it and ripped it up and took it with him.  |
dhanish007
Mar 22, 2008
| i wear my watch on my left hand even tho im left handed...
i find it easier. |
yanksgirl
Mar 29, 2008
| how were we supposed to know he was left-handed, it was his personal preference
and not many people could have gotten as far as the months
it was really confusing |
willymapo
Apr 06, 2008
| Great one.
Still, again, the complexity of the message makes it unreal. 
Still, great teaser! |
salli
Jun 23, 2008
| Really hard. Couldn't really understand it  |
srpwuzhere
Nov 15, 2008
| that was hard! i couldnt understand it |
readhed
Dec 14, 2008
| i got that one wrong i had his wife. |
shdwhawk
Jan 10, 2009
| As yanksgirl said, wearing a watch on the right hand does not mean one is left-handed.
I'm right dominant but I wear my watch on my right hand. |
precious1026
Jan 11, 2009
|  I don't know how Briangle allowed you to get away with this one. A Mystery gives viable clues, and the Mystery that offer clues closely related to the Crime, the suspects, the scene and the weapon make the Mystery great or good, even. The man was left-handed means Nothing to the actual Crime. The victim writing an encrytion means Nothing to the actual crime. There were No Clues, just a story with a punch line. I am sorry. I did enjoy the beginning, the opening, the story yet, no plot existed for me to figure. I give this two thumbs. One up and one down. The Teaser was decently written and held its audience in anticipation of a something, but you failed to deliver, after holding me with the opening story. |
precious1026
Jan 11, 2009
| Who Knew, there was no mysterious evidence. |
grilledcheese
Jan 11, 2009
| I guess you missed the "7B91011" clue...  |
EienNiKirei
Mar 08, 2009
| I love mysteries and I used to work at a bank... so this one was right up my alley.
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(user deleted)
May 02, 2009
| Hm... It was well-written, certainly, but I agree with the things that other people have been saying. The fact that a code saying "JASON" was the only clue is a little disappointing, and it being in code is strange... I don't agree that Jason would have taken the message only if it said his name; if he saw his victim writing, he would have ended it regardless of what it said.
As a side note, the first thing I would have asked for, as a detective, would be the time of the meetings. If so, whoever said the latest time would be a suspect regardless; either they killed him, or they are lying. It goes in a similar fashion for the other two as well. ...I'll stop rambling now.
Once again, it was well-written, and I tried to decipher the written thing for quite a while~ Be wary of your logic, but nice job overall~ |
gothpunk
May 04, 2009
| if he had written jason,jason would have found it and probably destroy it..and it would be difficult for him to write jason's name with his right hand coz his left-handed,right?... |
mathisnice
Jul 21, 2009
|
Hard! I saw it on about 5 other websites, with just a few different words. |
lilcaspyr
Nov 04, 2009
| i like my answer much better. I thought the July 5th mean 7 5 on the phone which could stand for "picture killer" by the letters on the phone so this explains the picture on the floor. 7B91011 : 7=R so Ray, B=Barbara, 9=W so Whitcombe. 1011 => made it into 10:11 o'clock 0 second. putting that in a clock make it look like a W which could stand for wife or woman. |
SamAlNik
Nov 28, 2009
| got dis 1 wrong!!! good teaser |
gencokerem
Mar 17, 2010
| so its supposed to be: your name is jason. you stabbed the guy and waiting for him to die or sth.. then he starts writing "jason" on his calendar. oh whatever... |
BookwormAnG
Aug 28, 2011
| I thought it was his wife!
I thought the numbers was their car's numberplate and the rest of the thing on the desk was a distraction!  |
BookwormAnG
Aug 28, 2011
| **things |
cathyrafols
Apr 01, 2012
| that was pretty easy |
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