To Our Valued Police Chief
Ms. Megan Hoddinott,
We arrived at the scene 1.45 AM on Sunday, December 9 1965. The victim was 43 year old named Arthur Volupides. We found him lying on his back on the floor facing the staircase of his home holding an empty liquor glass with his wife, Queenie standing over the husband’s body in a shocked manner.
Mrs. Volupides stated that she just came home after a party held in a country club she went to after a fight with her husband, she said that she met some friends whom she later invite to come over for a drink. After she waited at home for her friends who came ten minutes after her, she then announced that her husband, Arthur slipped and fell down the stairs when coming down for another drink, and that’s when she thinks her husband had died.
We have found some things at the crime scene that we thought was of the ordinary:
- The victim was found facing the stairs, while when people fall down the stairs, they usually they would fall face first.
- Their stove had food being cooked on top of it, but seeing it was too early in the morning was off, usually people cook at meal times: lunch, dinner, breakfast.
- Queenie waited at home for her friends, usually people would rush injured people to hospital or call for emergency.
- The victim’s free hand was his right hand, usually if someone was coming down the stairs, their free hand would be where the banister is placed (in this case it would be Arthur’s left), which the victim could not hold due to his hand was holding to the liquor glass.
- Arthur glass is still in pristine condition, usually people would let go of things when falling and things as glass would be broken.
- The item on the wall aren’t disturbed, when people fall, they usually would try to grab on things to prevent themselves from falling.
The autopsy has determined that the cause of Arthur’s death was a wound on the head and stated that he’d been drunk.
It’s not a natural position that he fell backwards and when he fell he must’ve fell face first. The options are that it’s his own doing or a force coming from someone causing him to fell backwards from the top of the stairs. Queenie got home ten minutes before her drinking buddies got to her. In those ten minutes, Arthur was drunk and they might have continued the fight from earlier since alcohol triggers emotions. Seeing that evidences, our prime suspect is Arthur’s wife, Queenie Volupides.


