5 Minute Mysteries About Murders

A man is found dead in a filed. Lying next to him is an unopened package.

A woman buys a new pair of red high heels. Hours later, she dies.

Jack and Judy were lying on the floor dead. There was a puddle of water and broken glass on the floor. How did they die?

A hunter aimed his gun carefully and fired. Seconds later, he realized his mistake. Minutes later, he was dead.

A salesman tries too hard to get a sale and as a result ends up dying.

A man went into a party and drank some of the punch. He then left early. Everyone at the party who drunk the punch subsequently died of poisoning. Why did the man not die?

A man who was expecting to die in a few days dies sooner than he thought.

When Liz was about to find out who killed Mario, she fell asleep. When she woke up she realized that she could no longer find it out.

John was walking along the snow-covered field. When he came to a lonely tree, he saw the corpse of a man hanging on the tree. He died the last night from strangulation, but there were no traces around him, except John's ones.

Sherlock Holmes was walking down the corridor. Suddenly he heard a woman screaming, “Please, John, don’t kill me!” A shot rang. Holmes burst into the room. In one corner lay a dead woman and a gun. In another corner stood a postman, a lawyer, and an accountant. Sherlock looked at them, approached the postman, and grabbed him: “I will arrest you for killing this woman.” It was really the postman who killed this woman, but how could Holmes know it?

A man sitting on a park bench reads a newspaper article headlined "Death at Sea" and knows a murder has been committed.

A woman dies from a long telephone conversation.