John Wright Murder Case Study

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John Wright has been strangled to death with a rope in his gloomy farmhouse. The main suspect for this crime is Mrs.John,the county attorney,Sheriff peters and neighbour farmer Mr.Hale Is investigating this case.That includes the sheriff officer’s wife Mrs.Peters and the neighbor's wife Mrs.Hale. though the men’s were making fun of the women's worrying about the house stuff, but they were the actual one’s to solve the murder mystery. While investigating the house the women’s discovered Mrs.wright’s pet canary with its neck

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