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1. how do the detectives approach the crime scene? on the phone the police said not to touch anything they were looking for clues/evidence of what had occurred in the apartment collect all the evidence and police write a report detective looks at the apartment to see how the intruder might have gotten in detective asks where the husband was the night of the murder detective interrogates the wife reenact what happened the night of the murder wife goes through a walk through of where she was standing when she was attacked windows were locked and there was no forced break in she lies for her husband about why she didn’t call the police two keys to the door he deduces that the dead man could not have entered from the window since there were no muddy foot prints (it was raining the night of the murder) attacker could not have had a duplicate key made since there was no key on him when he died letter is found on dead man’s body detectives believe she was being blackmailed which is solidified by the letters produced asking for money if she wanted the letter returned detectives believe she could have made the bruises herself with her stocking and that she let her attacker in husband had planted his wife’s key to let the attacker in husband removed the key from the dead body and put it back in his wife’s purse

2. what techniques for solving the crime were available? (Ex. DNA, fingerprint, etc.) fingerprinting because the husband was very concerned about that the police were able to match the fibers on the dead man's boot to the fibers from the doorway mat the police match the silk patch on the stalking to the silk that came from the mending basket

3. how was the crime solved? The guy margo was having an affair with discovers the money in her bedroom He believes that the husband set up swann to murder margo The detective is switching the keys around in the coats That’s the key to the murder is the KEYS!! How do you prove who had the keys when? Did the husband put the wrong key back in margo’s purse?? The husband may have put swann’s latch key in margo’s purse instead of her own Her husband had been spending a lot of money up until the time of the murder Swann had put the key back under the mat on the stairs!! Husband had assumed swann wouldn’t have put the key back until after he left so he put swann’s key back in margo’s purse The only way they prove this is if the husband tries both keys realizes his mistake and knows that the key must be under the mat on the stairs The husband uses the key under the mat, he’s been caught!