Summary Of The Queenie Volupides Murder Case

In this murder case our suspect, Queenie Volupides, claims that her husband Arthur slipped down the stairs and fell to his death. Prior to the incident Queenie and Arthur had an altercation and afterwards Queenie left the home to go to the country club and drink. At close to one, Queenie returned home to prepare for some friends that she had invited over for a few more drinks. When Queenie’s friends arrived at her home Queenie met them at the door and told them that Arthur died after he slipped down the stairs. Since Queenie’s friends were not there at the moment of Arthur’s death we have no witnesses besides Queenie herself. Upon further investigation of the case we found multiple pieces of evidence that strongly support that Queenie lied

In this case Arthur did not drop his glass which leads us to believe that he did not fall down the stairs. If Arthur had fallen then he would have dropped the glass or at least shattered the glass on his way down. However, neither of those actions occurred to the glass and it remained fully intact and in Arthur’s hand. These observations allow us to safely conclude that Arthur probably did not slip and fall because he’s still holding onto the glass and it is

As a rule, when people fall they have more injuries than just a head wound. It would be an extremely strange and rare occurrence if a person were to fall down the stairs and only injure their head. It is only logical to expect that there would also be other significant injuries from a fall such as this. The fact that the autopsy only comments on the head wound and declares that it was fatal strongly indicates that something was used to inflict harm upon Arthur. It is clearly safe to conclude that if Arthur had fallen there would have been other injuries mentioned in the autopsy besides the head