Tragedy Before Dying: A Case Study

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According to his wife Queenie, in a very brusque claim, she returned home from the country club and began preparing for the arrival of friends who would be joining in a few minutes. She then claims that Arthur fell coming down the stairs to get another drink. The hit on the head he took from the fall supposedly killed him. This is a very brusque claim, while you should be very opulent in your claim. She decided to procrastinate instead of calling emergency services, which consequently led her to be walking on the faulty path. First off, the position of the body suggests that there was no way Arthur could have fallen while coming down the stairs. When the chief arrived at the scene, Arthur’s body was face-up, with his head on the floor and his feet lying on two separate steps. It is highly improbable that someone falling down the stairs would be in this position. When someone falls …show more content…
Volupides’s hand. According to the neighbors, Queenie, very nonchalantly, was quick to point out he still had the glass in his hand from when he fell, which is very pragmatic about her to do, and we found the glass in his hand when we arrived. Someone falling will either drop what he’s holding to brace himself or if he holds onto it, it will break, especially if it’s made of glass. Furthermore, we found the glass in Arthur’s left hand. Someone walking down the stairs would most likely hold onto the banister—especially if he’s drunk, as Queenie claimed with little compassion—and in the case of the Volupides house, the banister is on the left side of the stairs. It is unlikely that Arthur would have held the glass and the banister in the same hand. All of this is proof that Queenie was lying with great impetuous behavior, and it furthermore suggests that the glass may have been planted in Arthur’s hands after he died, in which Queenie did not impute on what she

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