Cashmere Murder

crimsonmoon

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Aug 31, 2008
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For my forensic science class i was assigned this puzzle to "exercise my mystery solving skills" (lol?) i spent an eternity and still got it wrong lol. see if you can get it. its already been graded so i know who it is now. After a while ill post the answer if nobody can get it.
Im super curious if anybody can get it...lol here goes:




Use your logic to solve this crime: A lovely cashmere sweater was found torn to shreds (What a Crime!!) on the sidewalk. The sweater police talked to six witnesses, including the shredder. The six were very open about what had happened. The only trouble was that none of them spoke any language the police could understand. Nevertheless, the police were able to piece together the following information: Use the evidence to determine who destroyed the sweater?
- The witnesses were three men and three women: Fred, John and William; Gloria, Gilda, and Barbara
- The men were married to the women, though not necessarily in the order listed.
- William's wife was the cashmere murderer.
- Fred speaks and understands only Basque.
- John is bald.
- The couple who live next door to Gilda and her husband have the same color hair she does, and speak both Spanish and Basque.
- William's wife recently gave Barbara a home permanent.
- Gilda's husband speaks only French.


A. Gilda
B. Barbara
C. Fred
D. William
E. Gloria
 
Gloria shredded the sweater.
 
Gloria. Don't want to explain how I got there because i don't want to ruin it, I'll check back tomorrow to see if I am right.
 
Oh come on everyone knows it was really the butler.....

Gloria too.
 
Lets do a little process of elimination..
based on the clues:

The men were married to the women, though not necessarily in the order listed.
- William's wife was the cashmere murderer. Who is williams wife?
- Fred speaks and understands only Basque. Not Gildas hubby, he speaks french.
- John is bald. not Gildas neighbor (they have hair)
- The couple who live next door to Gilda and her husband have the same color hair she does, and speak both Spanish and Basque. Fred speaks basque- not gildas wife.. john is bald, doesnt speak spanish or basque.
- William's wife recently gave Barbara a home permanent. Barbera is not williams wife.
- Gilda's husband speaks only French. Not married to fred. john is the only one who does not speak basque or spanish, he must be gildas hubby.

Gilda & John
Barbera & Fred...
William & Gloria..

Gloria did it.
 
dang. i feel dumb lol. you all suck! for being better strategic thinkers than i am. ha. haha, hm. *sob*
lol
you were all correct, it was gloria
 
did anybody read this thread but not answer cuz they didn't know?
just curious...:D lol
 
Lol, I did. Curiosity to see how quickly the answer appeared after your initial post time...
 
ok, there might be hope for me yet then lol i felt like i was on crazy pills or something
 
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