[Once Sonic has successfully BRB'd, Yasu is waiting to give him a lesson.]
Um... okay. Where should I start...
[She ponders for a moment, tapping her chin.]
Usually, a good place to begin is what I know for sure isn't possible. N- Not a theory of what did or didn't happen, but what the evidence clearly shows could not have occurred. Like, say the victim is in a room locked by a chain, and their throat has been slit by something sharp. Even though you can't tell anything else at this point, you can say for sure by the shape of the wound and by the lack of tampering on the chain that "it was impossible for the killer to open this door more than the chain allows" and "the victim was not killed by a ranged weapon."
From there, you can start piecing together things you know almost for certain based on your constraints. For example, if the chain was set, you can infer that either the culprit had some way of entering the room other than the door or that the culprit reset the chain after they murdered the victim and either escaped through said alternative means or are still hiding somewhere in the room. This gives you a few directions to work with by searching the room for the culprit and for any hidden passages that could lead outside.
Now you try. What does the victim's throat being slit tell you about the crime?
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Um... okay. Where should I start...
[She ponders for a moment, tapping her chin.]
Usually, a good place to begin is what I know for sure isn't possible. N- Not a theory of what did or didn't happen, but what the evidence clearly shows could not have occurred. Like, say the victim is in a room locked by a chain, and their throat has been slit by something sharp. Even though you can't tell anything else at this point, you can say for sure by the shape of the wound and by the lack of tampering on the chain that "it was impossible for the killer to open this door more than the chain allows" and "the victim was not killed by a ranged weapon."
From there, you can start piecing together things you know almost for certain based on your constraints. For example, if the chain was set, you can infer that either the culprit had some way of entering the room other than the door or that the culprit reset the chain after they murdered the victim and either escaped through said alternative means or are still hiding somewhere in the room. This gives you a few directions to work with by searching the room for the culprit and for any hidden passages that could lead outside.
Now you try. What does the victim's throat being slit tell you about the crime?