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[orangetoughguy]

So a couple decided to spend the weekend driving up from LA to San Jose. Along the way their car runs out of gas, real smart huh? The husband, he leaves the wife in the car to go find a pump. About a half hour later, the guy comes back with a gallon of gasoline but inside their car, the wife is dead. She's sitting in the passenger seat with a big old hunting knife sticking out of her chest. All the doors are still locked, the windows are up, none of them are broken. The car doesn't have a scratch, it looks the same exact way it was when he left it. How did the murderer kill the wife?

Comments

[totallyinaband]

Is this a riddle or something you know actually happened?

[orangetoughguy]

Does that part really matter?

[intheblanks]

Good riddles should only have one viable answer.

[orangetoughguy]

Oh yeah? How many are you packing?

[totallyinaband]

So there's no change she killed herself?

[designedtoparty]

I'm guessing she got sick of waiting and decided to off herself.

[intheblanks]

Besides the one you're looking for?

He left his wife in the car. There's nothing to say he left her alive.

[orangetoughguy]

Aw come on you can do better than that.

[orangetoughguy]

[Stop wrecking his sassy riddles, Chase.]

Real sharp. But wrong. Highway Patrol don't look too kindly on that kind of shit.

[orangetoughguy]

Really?

[shall_yield_us]

Before he went for his fuel, like a darling, pretty boy with his hands ever so white.

[intheblanks]

Not wrong, just not what you're looking for.

When your answer relies on a point of omission, you need to make sure you include everything else.

[orangetoughguy]

Okay Edward Nigma what other holes do you want to puncture?

[designedtoparty]

Sure. He was gone half an hour. Who seriously waits around that long for someone to get petrol?

[orangetoughguy]

It's not that kind of story.

[orangetoughguy]

This was before cellphones.

[designedtoparty]

So she had even less to do!

[shall_yield_us]

Oh, fine, assume conjugal bliss, for all that she must have shared her nights with every creature of the realm.

Very well: the murderer rode with them since the very beginning and now he waits once more, strangulating his limbs somewhere in the space beneath the back seat.

[intheblanks]

None. If you clear that up, the rest works fine.

Just a problem with the telling.

[orangetoughguy]

Do you have any other answers?

[orangetoughguy]

Are you kidding me? Cellphones aren't that crucial to everyday living.

[orangetoughguy]

That's gotta be one small guy. Anyway you're wrong.

[designedtoparty]

Well, okay. What else did she have in the car with her besides a hunting knife?

[intheblanks]

I wasn't going to spoil the game. But I assume the weather was good.

[shall_yield_us]

The lesson is to never discriminate against dwarfs with exceedingly sharp cutlery.


Then the knife materialized within her from another dimension.