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Anton
Karazai had amassed a great fortune in his 80 years as a world-famous
pianist, performing for presidents and parliaments, kings and queens, and
all the greatest cities' concert halls and children's hospitals.
Anyone who watched Mr. Karazai perform understood immediately that he love
his music above and beyond anything else. Music--playing the
piano--was his life. |
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Yesterday evening, however, Mr.
Karazai's only son and sole heir phoned the police and reported that his
father had hung himself from the chandelier in the piano room at his estate.
When the police arrived, they took several pictures of the scene. One
of those pictures appears on the next page (click link above). |
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The coroner's report confirmed
that Mr. Karazai died from asphyxiation, as indicated by the single, thing,
skin-breaking line around his neck which had leaked only a small amount of
blood across the Adam's apple. |
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Since it is too small to read
from the picture, here is Mr. Karazai's last journal entry in its entirety: |
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Have been sad for weeks now.
Even piano fails to cheer me. Yesterday I actually kicked it--my
piano! But then again, my 90 year old legs could hardly hurt a
little bird.
Only my son remains.
My only son and the sole heir to all that I have earned and collected over
this incredible, lonely life. I wonder if he knows what he will be
getting when I die? Perhaps. But perhaps not, since we do not
talk much ever since he chose to hate me for missing so many baseball
games because of all my "important concerts" so many years ago. Oh
well. None of us are perfect.
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You are the head detective on this case. Do you close this case as a
sad suicide, or do you think something is just a little out of tune?
Argue your case. |