Heads you lose!

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Whodunit Dept:
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Headline:
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.NO CAUSE OF DEATH DETERMINED
...........FOR BEHEADING VICTIM
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Editor's Comments:
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According to local authorities, the case has
been assigned to an investigative team, led
by Detective Lt. Ichabod Crane.
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He has been given until Halloween eve' .to come up with some good answers.
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Update: The mystery has been solved!

As his first task, Ichabod himself tackled the puzzling matter posed by the headline:What was the cause of death? After but a short pause for thought, he quite astutely concluded that it really didn't matter since the victim was a goner no matter what the reason. More important he decided, was to determine who done it, and how!
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The prime suspect was initially the Queen of
Hearts. .She had the temperament, method,
madness, resources, and this type of thing fit
her modus operandi to a "T".
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Crane grilled the Queen intensely but she wouldn't back down, time--after--time insisting to him that she was INNOCENT; that SHE DIDN'T DO IT!!

Ichabod it seems, had run up against a brick wall!

The case seemed to stall, however after intense questioning .by .Deputy Barney Fife, Floyd the barber finally admitted that while it was.purely due to a misconception, he was the guilty party.

It seems that he wasn't exactly sure what the victim meant when he'd told him:

Take a little off the top...

But the story has a happy ending because even
though he had confessed, justice prevailed and Floyd was released without being charged.
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"After all" said Fife ... "he was only following in- structions given to him by a paying customer."
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Well done Deputy Fife!! .Well done TEAM!!

CASE CLOSED!!

P.S.
Don't anybody tell the kids or the Boy Scouts about any of this. It'd surely ruin a great old-fashioned sittin'-around-the-campfire story.