# MuSR / 

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{"choices":"['Xanthe', 'Lowell']","narrative":"In the seemingly peaceful city zoo, Stuart's life was brutally ended with a hatchet, and now it's up to Detective Winston to uncover the truth among suspects Xanthe and Lowell.\n\nAs Winston left the precinct, his mind was in a swirlwind. Investigating the murder of Stuart gave him a bone-chilling sensation. The images of the crime scene fresh in his mind. But a crime scene found in a zoo? He needed answers.\n\nEntering the coffee shop where Xanthe worked as a barista, Winston could see several customers waiting in line. Apparently, their coffee was popular in town. Xanthe could be seen behind the bar, engaging her clients, before she gracefully hurried over to the espresso machine. In that hurry, she accidentally drops a piece of paper. A customer quickly pointed it out, and Winston intervened to pick it up. \n\n\"That looks like a list of phone numbers,\" the customer said, peering over Winston's shoulder and noticing the peculiar numbers. \"Those aren't usual business or personal contacts. I work in telecommunications, I know.\"\n\n\"Thank you,\" Xanthe said, acknowledging the mishap, before busying herself again. \n\nWinston headed to the bar but opted not to order anything. Instead, he scanned the fallen paper. The now identified phone numbers seemed quite out of place.  \n\nThe Zoo's visitor logs showed that Stuart was a regular, showing up daily. He made a mental note of that. There was certainly a connection between Stuart and the coffee shop...with the baristas. Stuart was seen being quite friendly with the baristas, including the newcomer, Mary, whom he praised quite often. \n\n\"Was Stuart a regular here?\" Winston asked Xanthe.\n\n\"Yes,\" She responded warmly, \"he loved our coffee. Always praised Mary's hand.. She's pretty good, new or not. But you know, I was the one who used to make his coffee. Had his special recipe down, I did,\" She added, pointing towards a different espresso machine designated for complicated orders.\n\n\"Oh, that's interesting. You must have a busy schedule,\" Winston said offhandedly.\n\n\"Oh yeah, it includes working weekends too,\" Xanthe said, giving off a slight chuckle.\n\nAs Winston left the coffee shop, he recalled that Stuart's murder happened on a weekend. Winston knew this wasn't a coincidence, there was a complex web of intrigue developing here, leading him deeper into the mystery.\n\nWinston stared at the emails on Stuart's computer screen, reading about the deep financial holes Lowell had dug for his bank’s high profile clients. The source of these emails was unidentified, but they were enough to start a full-scale fraud investigation. It appeared that the businessman had been trading emails with Stuart not too long ago. It wasn't too hard to figure out why Stuart might've been targeted.\n\nHe looked over the police report, his cigar glowing in the dim room. It was late afternoon when the banking industry slows its hustle and bustle, that Stuart was found at the zoo. It was also the same time Lowell had a bank meeting at the branch near the zoo, according to the calendar reminder from Lowell's heavily incriminating laptop.\n\nAs Winston took a break from the case files, sipped coffee, and thought about his next move, he knew he needed to get over to the lumber yard. The police had found some rather interesting pieces of evidence there. The man behind the desk at Lowell's bank vouched that he was a regular at the nearby lumber yard and had been for years. With an empty shed filled with sawdust and shards of wood at his home, it made sense where most of the firewood at Lowell's house came from.\n\nShuffling through the paperwork, Winston found a bank withdrawal receipt from Lowell's office. It was the bank near the zoo. The timing was convenient. As were the missing firewood logs from his backyard. The man certainly had spent a lot of time around there, in the late afternoon.\n\nThe next stop for Winston would be the café. Sure enough, the receipts and CCTV footage confirmed that Lowell was a regular there as well and was there around the same time Stuart was at the zoo.\n\nThe guy at the lumber yard confirmed that Lowell came in pretty frequently, mostly for firewood and sometimes for tools. Most recently, he had come in for a new hatchet, but he mentioned that his old hatchet was missing from his shed. Strange, considering the murder weapon was a hatchet and it just so happened to match the brand that Lowell usually favored.\n\nIn his search, Winston found Lowell's laptop at Stuart's apartment. Through Lowell's email exchanges and Stuart's search history, it became clear that Stuart had found evidence of Lowell's illegal banking operations. These were the same operations he had been contacting the unknown source about. And there were the emails from Stuart himself, asking for a substantial dollar figure to keep quiet.\n\nWinston looked at his notes. He had a lot of work ahead of him, but each interview, each piece of evidence, was knitting together the fabric for Stuart's murder. He ordered another coffee and made a list of questions for Lowell. He had an interesting day ahead of him.","question":"Who is the most likely murderer?"}

Source: https://zayne-sprague.github.io/MuSR/

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