5 Minute Mysteries About Murders

An avid birdwatcher sees an unexpected bird. Soon he’s dead. How come?

A couple of dancers die around a dance competition.

In the front of a car, a woman is found dead. There is a gun in the back seat, out of her reach. The windows are closed and the doors are all locked.

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 dying man gives another man a gift, and then the dying man dies. Shortly after that the second man dies. How come?

Thieves broke into a woman’s house. She shut herself up in her room and called the police. She was told that there were no patrol cars available right now, and she would have to wait. She didn’t wait. 5 minutes later, 3 patrol cars and an ambulance were at her house. What did she do?

Lou is in a cave when, suddenly, he hears a sound from outside. He thinks it's strange, so he goes out to see what had happened, and dies the moment he exits the cave.

Everybody knew that if Julia took one step forward, she would die, but nobody told her.

A couple find a man's corpse on the beach. The corpse is under an umbrella and has a knife on his back. There are no signs of violence and no traces of blood. The autopsy reveals that the man died of natural causes.

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.

Michael applaused, and everyone in the room (except him) died. What happened?

Roger sees the light and he becomes paralyzed. Soon after that he dies.