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** 2-Minute Mystery ** The Case of the Drowned Girl By Lily Mirfakhraie Period 2 11/18/09 Detective Megan Allen walks down to the waterfront where a dead woman’s body lay. She flashes her badge and ducks under the police tape. It is a beautiful day today. The sun is high in the sky and the ocean very blue. The beach is filled with people, out for an early swim. Young people are pressing on the tape, straining for a look at the corpse. The only thing that seems out of place is the body. “What happened?” she asks, while examining the body. “Body washed up this morning. A runner found her and reported it. Her lungs are full of water but there are no signs of trauma except for a dislocated arm. Looks like an accidental drowning,” the officer answers. Detective Allen looks down. The body is covered in seaweed and seems to have been nibbled on by some fish. There is a slight smell of whisky, mostly masked by the strong smell of seawater. She spots a dead flat leech and a few water snails clinging to her legs. After a few minutes she looks up. “Arrange a murder investigation. This woman was murdered somewhere else and dumped here in the ocean,” she announces.

//How did she know that she had been murdered and dumped in the ocean and had not died accidentally? //