Forgive me if this matches an existing murder mystery. I tried to search before writing this one up
Outside the office building, sirens wailed and flashing lights illuminated the snow covered ground. Inside, a troop of police officers were milling about, gathering clues and investigating the scene.
Just inside the door, behind the secretary's desk, lay a dead body. The body was that of the poor secretary, Alicia Adams. It appears that Alicia was working late, transcribing some documents into her computer when the assailant came in and shot her twice, once in the head and again in the chest.
On the stand next to her monitor was the original document she was transcribing, and a word processor was visible on the screen. The document on the screen showed :
...We need to meet our quodkhe6rthgfvbn
It appears that, after she had been shot she had hit her head once on the keyboard, thus the garbled letters.
Now, security logs show three people in the office at that time:
Byron Baker - The CEO
Cindy Chase - The CFO
Darryl Davis - The CIO
After taking the three into custody and recording their statements, the police couldn't determine who would have killed the secretary. They did find that any of the three would have adequate motive, as the secretary was moving to blow the whistle on a major scam the three were pulling.
After a few days, the case started going cold. So, the force brought in a detective from a neighboring precinct. After reviewing the case files, including Alicia's exemplary reviews and skills analyses, she told the officers to make an arrest.
Who killed Alicia, and how did the detective know?
