41. The Locked-Car Stranger
On a stormy night, a married couple were driving through a foreign city when their car suddenly broke down. The husband, unable to speak the local language, decided to search on foot for someone who could understand him and call for help.
Worried about his wife’s safety, he raised all the windows, locked every door from the outside, and took the keys with him before hurrying away.
Less than an hour later he returned. The car was still locked, the windows were still up, and there was no sign of a break-in. Yet inside he found a horrific scene: his wife was dead, blood covered the floor, and a stranger was sitting beside her.
The doors were never opened, the windows were never lowered, and no one had entered or exited the vehicle from the time he left until he came back. What happened?
Added 25 April 2010
Hint: The "stranger" may not have opened any doors at all.
Solution:
The wife was heavily pregnant. While her husband was away she went into labor, gave birth, and tragically died from complications and blood loss. The newborn baby—someone her husband had never seen before—was the "stranger" he discovered in the locked car.
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