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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":"7926cad1-246b-5eb5-bdb1-090d93dbadf5","task_key":"default--murder~5fmysteries--7926cad1-246b-5eb5-bdb1-090d93dbadf5","task_revision_id":"1","upstream_id":"","short_description":"Who is the most likely murderer?","config":"default","split":"murder_mysteries","body":"{\"choices\":\"['Naomi', 'Lloyd']\",\"narrative\":\"In the isolated serenity of a mountain cabin, tragedy strikes when Russell is discovered lifelessly slain, a shovel being the weapon of choice, prompting the seasoned Detective Winston to investigate the surrounding suspects, Naomi and Lloyd.\\n\\nSeated in an office nestled midways between the city and the nearby mountains, Winston paced, waiting for his next interviewee. Lloyd, a local musician, and past resident of the rehab centers spread across the state, had been called in for questioning about the murder of Russell.\\n\\nAfter a couple of moments, the door creaked open and in stepped Lloyd, his eyes darting round the dull police office. His lips were tightly closed, not to emit any nervous chuckles that might belittle his present state.\\n\\n\\\"You're Lloyd?\\\" Winston asked, giving the man a scrutinizing look as he sipped his bitter coffee. \\\"Yes, sir...\\\" Lloyd replied, his voice barely above a whisper. Winston sighed and motioned for him to sit down.\\n\\nFrom Winston's vantage, there was nothing extraordinary about him. Lloyd distinctly bore an air of normalcy, with nothing damning about him--except, perhaps, the recent discovery of a shovel in the car he'd apparently been spotted outside a local hardware store with. His friends had vouched for him, saying that carrying a shovel made sense given his past in landscaping, but those could easily be false confirmations. \\\"What's a musician doing with a shovel in his car?\\\" Winston mused aloud.\\n\\n\\\"Oh, that..\\\" Lloyd shifted, seeming almost proud. \\\"That comes from my past, you see. Been involved in many a landscaping project. Old habits hardly die, I guess.\\\"\\n\\nWinston nodded, his eyes not leaving Lloyd as he mentioned Russell. \\\"Apparently, you were with Russell up at that mountainside cabin, weren't ya?\\\" Lloyd swallowed audibly, then nodded.\\n\\n\\\"I... I was.\\\" Lloyd confirmed. \\\"He invited me for a weekend. I accepted and stayed there, sir.\\\"\\n\\n\\\"And do you happen to remember if there was anyone else there?\\\" Winston's question pierced the room.\\n\\n\\\"No, sir. Just Russell and me. No one else.\\\" Lloyd's voice shook slightly, drenched in anxiety.\\n\\nWinston shifted the focus of the conversation, his eyes zeroing on a batch of letters. \\\"Russell was threatening to disclose these letters, wasn't he? He would expose your drug addiction to the band if you didn't step down,\\\" he probed, shuffling the documents as Lloyd's face turned pale.\\n\\n\\\"I couldn't let him tell the band... I fought so hard to keep that past behind,\\\" Lloyd murmured. \\\"Those letters... they held my life's biggest regrets.\\\"\\n\\nWith that, Lloyd's confession was done. Winston felt a curious sense of unease existing in the otherwise silent room featuring the exhausted and quite possibly vulnerable Lloyd. Silently, his eyes followed Lloyd out of his office and felt the chill of the mountain cabin travel all the way down to his city office.\\n\\nWinston cranked the heater in his car as he parked in front of the police station. He couldn't shake off the cold chill of the mountain crime scene. Russell, another good man gone too soon.\\n\\nReminiscing over evidence photos, he couldn’t help but eye the shovel. There it was, the suspected murder weapon itself. Unforeseen, such an everyday tool, now stained with malice.\\n\\nPulling up security camera footage on his laptop, he saw Naomi, Russell’s mother, digging in her garden. The timestamp indicated it was just the day before Russell’s murder. Winston made a mental note; Naomi had started a new gardening project at her home recently. The last thing Russell saw might have been rather ironic for him - the very shovel he used to help dig holes for his mother's flowers. \\n\\nThe next morning after grabbing a coffee to go, Winston pulled up to Naomi’s house. \\n\\n“Detective Winston, how are you?” Naomi asked letting him inside.\\n\\n“Morning, Ma’am. I’m here about Russell.” He replied, trying meticulously hard not to let his empathy show in his voice. \\n\\n“Yes, I thought as much,” She responded and motioned an invitation to sit down.\\n\\nOver coffee, Winston learned about Naomi's recent solitary hobbies. She told him about spending afternoons in the local park. Her neighbor had reported her midnight walks to the police. And her recent shunning of social events. Odd behavior, he debated, for a woman who just lost her son. Also noted her hands hardened and calloused from vigorous gardening work, reminded him of the footage.\\n\\n“Russell came by the cabin last weekend. I had inherited it from my parents and was there alone all weekend. I had invited him over…” Her voice dropped, “And then I found him. Evidently when I was gardening...”\\n\\nHer words hung in the air. Winston finished his coffee and excused himself. Time to go meet with her neighbor, perhaps they noticed something Naomi missed.\",\"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":[]}