This Murder She Wrote Jigsaw Puzzle is truly unhinged

Today’s video is sponsored by squarespace, get it because i’m in a square so Katie you ready to solve a murder. I am and we’ve got the perfect puzzle, so you already saw me solve one of these when it was like food themed – and I didn’t know enough about cooking – to solve the murder. So here’s what’s happening today, we are hoping that we know enough about office supplies to solve this one, and so what we’ve done is we have recreated the scene on the box in order to really get in the moment. So we asked our dad if he had a typewriter that looked anything like the one on the box and turns out. We have the exact same one.

We just went down to the basement and he like pulled out this suitcase and he opened it up and it was the typewriter from the box all right. So the way that these puzzles work is that there is a story inside and then a puzzle, that’s different from the picture on the box, so this is still sealed. So, let’s open it up and uh find out what murder we’re solving first time. This has been open since 1984. All right, let’s see what we’ve got in here.

Okay, we’ve got some puzzles, i’m seeing some wood grain, i’m seeing a calendar. How is there so much puzzle dust that the bag isn’t even open? Oh wow, it’s so dusty! It’s a very brown puzzle. Oh, I see a typewriter okay before we start looking at the jigsaw puzzle, i’m gonna tell Katie the story of desktop murder.

All right ready to hear our story. I can’t wait so Jessica. Fletcher is at a house now there are a bunch of police cars in front and she just walks right up through and in the front door like she does as you do, and then she says there are advantages to being something of a celebrity. You have a much better chance of getting into restaurants, theaters and crime scenes. I don’t think that’s how that works.

The detectives recognize her and they’re like Jessica fletcher. Why are you here? We are here doing our actual job. So, okay, the person who lived in that house was an author called Arnold. Myers Jessica had basically edited his new manuscript and was bringing it over to go over it with him.

However, the officers say that Mr. Myer’s um committed suit and that’s what they’re there investigating they came to investigate when a neighbor spotted smoke and called 9-1-1. They found a dry tea kettle smoldering on the kitchen, stove and Myer’s sprawled over his desk shot in the head. There was a gun next to his hand and a note stuck to the desk. That proves he was depressed, but then Jessica says not too depressed to make a cup of tea. Sure I don’t think that’s how that works, but okay, so they then find the answering machine they listen to it.

They have a message from Jessica saying that she’ll be over at six, but they say that there was a clock on the desk that stopped at 4. 30 So they think he died at 4 30.. Why did the clock? Stop, though?

Did it get unplugged? I guess the boat yeah, the bullet that killed him also stopped the clock. So then Jessica’s like well. There are three people whose careers will be ruined if this manuscript is published. I think one of them murdered him.

Let’s bring them all here to the house naturally, and all three of them clearly agreed to this so suspect. Number one Samuel v, Torrance iii sounds fancy. He was a very fancy person, although he had you know like a poor upbringing, but basically he did a bunch of stuff and could potentially be president one day. However, not if this guy’s memoir is published, I think this guy was a limousine driver yeah. He was a chauffeur.

It was important because he knew that this guy, who could be president one day, was having affairs with a bunch of different women in the back seat of the limousine. Oh no suspect number two: a woman named Adele sims television personality and author of the popular advice column tell Adele, which is read by teenagers nationwide. However, when she started her career, she did an adult film and she bought it back and destroyed the negative. But this chauffeur was the person who was like transporting it and he watched it and includes a lot of information about it in his book and number three. I don’t think he has a first name he’s just Krieger.

He is an arms dealer from Algeria, but this chauffeur knew that he also supplied weapons to dictators and terrorists around the world and the reason that they’re so far new is because he did all his business in the back seat. Your driver is always listening, careful what you say in the backseat of your ubers, so that’s uh. Basically it there’s a little thing on the manuscript that says any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental, and she thinks that Myer’s was about to cross. That off from the manuscript, when one of them killed him. However, the detective says that all three of them were working in their offices until five o’clock, but Myer’s died at 4 30.

But then Jessica comes back with three things, because that’s how murder investigations work? Three things yeah, always three number one Myer’s did not die at 4, 30. Number two Myer’s did not write a note and he did not intend to the murderer. Wrote it number three. The murderer left a calling card on the desk and then Jessica says it’s all here.

It’s undeniable, it’s murder, Jessica fletcher, is very dramatic. Okay, what’s your strategy? What are you doing? I’M collecting some interesting things that seem easy to put together like clocks. I got the first piece in and i’m collecting the edge pieces you do that last time we did.

One of these Karen took the easy parts and left me with a very hard section, so I barely got to do any of the puzzle. So this time i’m claiming the fun parts – or maybe i’m just a little faster at puzzles – probably some of those Karen. What are you doing here? Um? There is so much puzzle dust and I think it looks really gross on camera, so i’m trying to use tape to lift some of it off of the sheet all right.

So we’ve made a bit of progress, but we finished the edge and kd has a bunch of different sections going. So let’s take a look, so we’ve got a calendar February. There’s a deadline on the 16th. Then here we have blood. Oh, no, it’s not a lot of blood, though no really it could have been like a bad paper cut.

That would be a very bad paper cut. This looks like the manuscript. This is that little section that he was thinking of crossing out. Maybe we’ve got our clock at 4, 30 Then we’ve got part of a typewriter part of a phone part of a lamp and a post-it that says this is the end unsure. If that’s this, it’s a very unspecific note, we need to do a little more first.

For me, the edge was a little more difficult because, with the light reflecting off of it, you entirely lose the picture. This isn’t a great quality puzzle, but we just barely managed to get the whole thing on the table. I think we figured out that this actually connects up there. So, let’s put it in oh there we go, it is February. Does this connect anywhere?

I’M pretty sure this goes right here. Oh boy, this might not have been the best place to keep all of our puzzle. Pieces spread these out a little okay, we’re gonna work on that and get this puzzle finished and then we’ll check back in to solve the murder all right, so we’ve definitely made progress. I feel like we’ve done all the interesting parts and now there’s just a whole lot of brown, but Katie you brought something for show and tell what is it. This is the unofficial murder.

She wrote case book, it’s basically imdb before there was imdb and it’s just about murder. She wrote it’s a very thick book yeah the show ran for 12 seasons so and then there’s about three to four pages about every single episode of murder. She wrote it has who the guest stars were, highlights some trivia everything you would want to know about every episode of murder. She wrote: do you think this one’s in there? I don’t think this one’s in there.

They didn’t include all of the licensed products and there are still some post-it’s in here. I can’t quite figure out what they correspond to, but when I was in middle school, high school or so I would basically follow along in my murder. She wrote book and use post-it’s to keep track of what episode we were on so that I would know all of the trivia. I don’t remember much of the trivia from here. It’s been a while almost done almost done.

No, no that one goes up there. Okay and the very last piece yay we did it: okay, don’t look too closely we’re gonna solve the murder, but in a minute after we have lunch all right, we are back, we are fed, we are ready to solve a murder. So what are the three things we had to figure out number one was why he didn’t actually die at 4 30, like the clock says that he didn’t write. This note, which is just this, is the end. Who would think that’s a note and number three: the murderer left a calling card on the desk, but we don’t know exactly what that is, so we have to find it all right.

So what do you see? Okay, there’s a lot of things happening here, so I can’t actually tell why the clock has stopped. It looks like it’s just tipped over. Is there a bullet hole in it? Well, but the if that’s a hole it’s like behind.

Oh, maybe that’s how she knows. So. The hole is, behind the hour hand, so the hour hand couldn’t have been right there when a bullet was shot through it. It’s not a bullet hole, though I don’t know it’s a little hard to tell oh here’s, the pen that was used to write the note, but that would have been on his left hand, so we have to determine right or left again. If he’s left-handed do this.

Last time we have a lot of coins by the phone, but this is his own desk phone. You don’t need coins for your own phone. We have a couple of things on the calendar. The deadline which is in the story – oh so he’s put a box around this in blue and the blue pen is here. So maybe that means he’s right-handed yeah, but it’s not a felt tip pen.

It’s a ballpoint pen and this was drawn in a felt tip. Okay, see this one’s a felt tip, so it makes a thicker line than a ball point, because I feel like this is the end could also refer to like this is the last page of the manuscript. Exactly this looks like a contract. Is this the kind of printer that would have printed this? This is an answering machine.

Oh it’s, not a printer printers back then would have been huge bigger than the typewriter. That’s a good point! It’s a little bit of glare on this puzzle. It’s hard to see that side. Clearly, okay, sure do you think that’s pen or blood.