Two people are found shot to death at point-blank range inside a room locked on the inside. No gun is found in the room, and no bullets are found in either body.

can you find a solution to this mindbending question?

I have more questions too....

Mmmm a riddle eh.

Were they shot with a tazer gun on a bloody high setting, then the murderer locked the door on the inside and climbed out through the window managing to jam it shut again once he/she was outside.

Bullet went through the people? Silent pistol? I dunno....

Person(s) unknown could have put two bodys in the room that were already shot then left empty guns in there too make it look like hey had killed each other?

Sorry its late! i just noticed the door was locked from the inside, what a plonker!

*Drums fingers on desk*

We are waiting for the answer Thenumber23, come on, no time to waste!!!

At the end of a days work in 1974 workers for the Dowling Construction Company of Indianapolis left a 2 and a half ton steel wrecking ball hanging from a crane 200 feet above the ground. When they came back the next morning the ball was gone. Police and all concerned were baffled and the ball was never found. (Telephone interview with Loran Dowling Indianapolis Indiana)

I love that mystery. I have always wondered who took the ball, how they took the ball, and why.

Mystery of the Locked room


Isidore frank was shot dead at 10:30 pm on march 9, 1929, in the back room of the fifth ave Laundry(which he owned) at 4 East 132nd Street in New York City. The police were alerted by a neighbor, Mrs Locklan Smith, who had heard screaming and the sounds of a struggle. When the officers arrived they found that the doors to the room in which Fink lay were locked, and so they gained entry by lifting a small boy into the room through a transom window. Fink had been shot twice in the chest and once through the left hand, which showed powder burnes. No gun was found in the room. There was money in Finks pocket and in the cash register. At first police theorized that whoever shot Fink, who always bolted the laundry doors when he worked at night, had climbed through the transom window. But the window was very small, as was the boy who was hoisted through it; and the question of why an escaping murderer should climb through a small window instead of leaving through the door seemed unanserable. A second theory was that Fink had been shot from the hallway through the transom, but the powder burns on Finks body showed that he had been shot from close range. More then two years after the crime, New York Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney called the murder an "insoluble mystery". (Charles Fort, The Complete books of charles Fort. P.916;The New York Times, March 10,1929)

How did it Happen?

In July 1891 Carl Gros was shot dead near Maspeth Long Island. The bullet had penetrated his body but had left no holes in his clothing.(Charles Fort. The complete books of Charles Fort,p.913)

They were shot point blank range - taken to the room by offender(s)- Offenders locked the door from inside as they were leaving- got away.

The most obvious solution, assuming Sunny's scenario is untenable due to the door's being unable to be locked from the inside and shut would be this: The people were shot and then went into the room themselves and locked it from the inside. Or one of them carried the other, etc. They were "shot" with some sort of projectile that the body itself dissolved-such as ice. I am presuming there was no easy way out, such as a window. The gun was left outside somewhere.

I love Charles Fort ......I've got a book called 'The World's Most Incredible Stories-The Best Of Fortean Times' which I've read cover to cover twice........

Fact is definitely stranger than fiction......

Excellent thinking. They were shot and then locked themselves in the room themselves before they died. How they could be shot wilth ice is interesting. A disovable bullet? The odds of two insoluble events at the same crime scene is near impossible yet it happened.

There's nothing mysterious about not finding a bullet in a person who was shot to death; bullets often pass right through a victim. If I were investigating this, I would look for bullets or bullet holes in the room to determine whether they were shot inside the room.

sorry, forgot to mention...no windows.

They shot eachother with guns and bullets made of ice.

Simple they shot each other with the small hand held crossbows after an argument after one had locked the door to stop the other leaving... and of course, there would be no bullet wounds.. but they were both still technically "shot" though..