Detective Riddles / Situation Puzzles

A naked man is lying dead in the middle of a desert with a match in his hand. What happened? A man is found dead in a desert. He is naked, and lots of clothes are scattered around him, among other things. There is a match in his hand. How did he die?

A woman - at work - is going downstairs, when suddenly there is a blackout. In that very moment she realizes that her husband is about to die.

A woman finishes getting dressed and dies.

In the middle of the ocean is a yacht. Several corpses are floating in the water nearby.

A man walks up to a cactus, looks at a piece of paper pinned there, and kills himself.

Cindy is amongst a crowd of people when she is murdered. However, nobody notices her cries.

A woman is found dead in a hospital. The murder weapon is a pair of scissors. However, the body has no cuts ot wounds of any kind.

Bill shot the man, but was not punished. Why?

A man was walking down the street when he suddenly started to choke the woman walking by him. He was taken to the police station but soon after was released.

After the barrister’s speech, Bill’s punishment was upgraded. Why?

A mother-in-law disliked her son-in-law so much that she wanted to poison him. But the son-in-law was careful and always ate only what his mother-in-law ate. Over dinner one night, the mother-in-law cut a piece of meat in half, ate one half herself, and gave the other to her son-in-law. After that he died. How did she manage to do it?

The girl’s mother died. The girl was burying her, and at the funeral she saw the man of her dreams and fell in love with him. 14 days later, she killed her sister. Why did she do that?