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It has three domains — murder mysteries, object placements and team allocation — and this catalogue imports the murder-mystery set.","introduction_ja":"","introduction_en":"","category":"Category not supplied","task_count":null,"acquisition_status":"Acquisition status not supplied","official_url":"https://zayne-sprague.github.io/MuSR/","indexing_mode":"noindex","profile":{"resources":[],"task_format":"","scoring":"","metric":"","size":"","answer_access":"","license":"","citation":"","maintainer":"","released":"","why_hard":"","related":[]}},"task_id":"27a3b30e-645a-5519-b7de-a0cb6634d849","task_key":"default--murder~5fmysteries--27a3b30e-645a-5519-b7de-a0cb6634d849","task_revision_id":"1","upstream_id":"","short_description":"Who is the most likely murderer?","config":"default","split":"murder_mysteries","body":"{\"choices\":\"['Samuel', 'Bernard']\",\"narrative\":\"When Isolde is found savagely killed with barbed wire in her home office, Detective Winston must untangle a web of lies and deception to find out if Samuel or Bernard is responsible.\\n\\nWinston's nose wrinkled as he entered a home office that had been marred with blood and remnants of barbed wire. Whispers of Isolde's last moments — what had she seen, what had she felt — clung to the air, making Winston's skin cling to the white collar of his shirt. \\n\\nA key piece of Isolde's life had been her role in exposing medical malpractice. Video evidence, meticulously collected, strangely presented itself beyond the crime scene. She had been building a case against Samuel, a man Winston was becoming increasingly interested in. \\n\\nSamuel had been a paramedic, receiving intense training which even included handling emergency situations with injuries from barbed wire. The unfortunate ironic nature of his education was not lost on Winston. He was a man trained to save lives, to handle emergencies. But there had been a serious error during a previous medical procedure, an error Samuel found hard to live down. Now, he made his living in a medical supply store, trying to make up for lost time, perhaps. \\n\\nOne sunny Monday, Winston himself had seen Samuel, sunglasses shading his eyes, his job posing no hindrance to his apparent penchant for intrigue. Just the next day, the sunglasses had been replaced with eyeglasses. That was a curious detail — Samuel didn't have a prescription for eyewear.\\n\\nIntriguing, things left to ponder. \\n\\nAs for the barbed wire, that vile instrument's origin led back to a storage unit. Samuel had a key to said unit. Had he known about its contents? It was, after all, not a common item for city dwellers to come by. \\n\\nThen, there was the matter of the hair. Samuel, a typical brown-haired man, had recently been seen sporting hair as dark as the night. A local store clerk had mentioned selling black hair dye to a man fitting Samuel's description days prior. \\n\\nWinston remembered mutterings of a superior warning Samuel about potential job loss even jail time. The detective felt a chill run down his spine as he processed the connections. \\n\\nA visit to Samuel was in order. \\n\\nSimilar to sirens he responded to, Samuel generated a certain kind of alarm in Winston's mind too. It was time to figure out who was saving lives and who was ending them. Perhaps, sometimes, they were one and the same, Winston couldn't help but consider as he headed to interview the paramedic, and potential suspect, Samuel.\\n\\nWinston was a weathered detective who had seen it all, or so he thought, until he was handed his latest case - the murder of Isolde. The crime scene was none other than her shared home office with her partner, Bernard. The fatal weapon, strangely ominous, was a strand of barbed wire.\\n\\nAfter hearing the details and evidence, Winston found himself interviewing Bernard, the primary suspect and Isolde's live-in partner. Bernard resided a far distance from the oftentimes chaotic city that Winston had become accustomed to. He owned a sizable cattle ranch, his pride and joy, and importantly, his primary source of income. \\n\\nUpon entering the shared living space of Bernard and Isolde, Winston could not help but notice the peculiar co-existence of their realities. The cattle rancher, strong and rugged, cohabiting with Isolde, a woman known for her tight grip over critical territories in the criminal underworld. These territories not only had huge implications for their income but also facilitated their criminal endeavors. \\n\\n\\\"Bernard,\\\" Winston began in his calm, measured tone, \\\"Can you account for your whereabouts on the night of Isolde's murder?\\\" \\n\\n\\\"I was here. Alone,\\\" Bernard slowly responded, his words echoing the stark emptiness of their shared home. His only alibi appeared to be his isolated ranch.\\n\\nWinston was aware of one crucial information piece; Bernard's regular grumbles about Isolde's monopoly over the crime territories. A monopoly Bernard would have liked to gain control of, no less. \\\"There seemed to be persistent disagreement between you and Isolde over these territories, is that right Bernard?\\\" \\n\\nBernard chuckled deeply, \\\"It's simple, detective. In our line of work, we all want more territory, it directly influences our business.\\\"\\n\\nGlancing across the ranch, Winston's gaze fell on the fences that lacked their usual barbed wire adornment. \\\"Seems like you're short on barbed wire,\\\" he said.\\n\\n\\\"Needed it for a fence repair. Got distracted before I could finish,\\\" Bernard replied nonchalantly. \\n\\n\\\"But isn't it odd that nobody else in town reported any missing barbed wire?\\\" \\n\\nBernard gave no response, his eyes offering a contrasting silence to the glaring sun. As Winston prepared to leave, he couldn't shake off the feeling that there was more to this story. Bernard was alone at the moment of Isolde's reported murder, with no visitors reported during the time of the crime, and his own sprawling ranch as the only possible alibi. His suspicions deepened by the fact that Bernard had had a clear motive - the lure of control over vast crime territories.\",\"question\":\"Who is the most likely murderer?\"}","display_format":"text","language":"","answer_status":"published","assets":[],"source_url":"https://zayne-sprague.github.io/MuSR/","history":"initial import","indexing_mode":"noindex","subproblems":[],"grids":[]}