At one in the morning, Queenie Volupides returns to her home where, earlier that night, she had an altercation with her husband, Arthur, about ten minutes before any of her friends came over. When her guests arrived, Queenie opened the door and immediately hit them with the awful events that became Arthur: he had slipped and fallen while going down the stairs and wouldn’t wake up. After an inspection of Arthur’s lifeless body, it was confirmed that he was intoxicated at the time of his death. Oddly, the only injury he had sustained was the one that killed him: a blow to the back of the head. Before his death, Queenie and Arthur were alone for a whole ten minutes after they had their altercation earlier that evening. This puts all the suspicion…show more content… These pieces of evidence are the glass in Arthur’s left hand, the location of the stair railing, and the fact that Arthur was intoxicated. First of all, the fact that the glass is in Arthur’s left hand leads to the possibility that he was going up the stairs instead of down, like Queenie stated, because he would have had to hold onto the railing for support, like anyone would. If he were going down the stairs, he would have had the glass in his right hand so he could hold onto the railing with his left. This leads to the possibility that Queenie lied about the direction Arthur was going on the stairs. This possibility is reinforced by the fact that Arthur was intoxicated. His limited senses would have caused him to be off balance and dizzy, which means he would need even more support to go up or down the stairs. From this evidence, one could assume that Queenie could also be lying about the glass in Arthur’s hand because he would have needed his hands free in order to give himself all the support he could…show more content… After evaluating the statements made by Queenie and crime scene itself, it is more than likely that Queenie is guilty of Arthur’s death. This is because she lied about these topics: which direction Arthur went on the stairs, Arthur falling down the stairs, the location of the glass in Arthur’s hand when he died, and where Queenie was at the time of Arthur’s death. All the evidence collected leads to the following reconstruction of the crime scene: First, Arthur was headed up the stairs without anything in his hands because it wouldn’t make sense for him to be coming down the stairs while intoxicated and not need any support from the railing on the left while the glass was in his left hand. He obviously didn’t get any support from the wall fixtures either, seeing as how they are all unmoved. Next, as Arthur was heading up, he was facing away from Queenie. This gave Queenie the perfect opportunity to strike the back of his head with the frying pan seen ‘cooking’ the suspicious cakes while Arthur is lying dead. This explains why there were no other injuries and the placement of his body on the stairs. When Queenie hit the back of his head, it brought him straight back to the floor only to hit the back of his head once again. His body didn’t twist or turn in any sort of way. Though it is still likely his feet and body could have landed like this from a fall down the
