Queenie Volupides Deception

A dead man and a suspicious woman - was it just an accident, or was it murder? Queenie Volupides is lying about the death of her husband Arthur. After a fight with her husband Arthur, Queenie Volupides left her house to go to the club with her friends. Upon her arrival, Queenie supposedly found Mr. Volupides lying dead at the bottom of the stairs. When the guests arrived, she claimed, “Arthur slipped and fell on the stairs. He was coming down for another drink--he still had the glass in his hand--and I think he’s dead.” However, the evidence from the crime scene disproves this statement and proves Queenie Volupides guilty of murdering her husband. The first series of evidence that discredits Queenie’s claim that Arthur fell down the stairs …show more content…
She lied to cover up the murder she committed. Based on clues from the crime scene, we can see that it would have been almost impossible for him to have fallen the way she claims. Arthur is lying on his back with his feet on the second and third stair. If he was falling forwards he would have landed face first, in a scrambled position, not neatly on his back with his feet lying perfectly on the stairs. However, if he had fallen from the second or third stair straight backwards, then his body positioning would be better explained. The victim’s position shows that he was walking up the stairs, rather than down them as Queenie had …show more content…
Volupides was cooking hors d’oeuvres in a frying pan on the stove. What Queenie did not realize was that the hors d’oeuvres were supposed to be cooked in an oven, not on a stove. This mistake was not made because she is a bad cook, but because she was trying to quickly get rid of the evidence that she had killed Arthur. The unnecessary use of the frying pan explains the fatal head wound that Arthur did not get by falling down the stairs. In addition, it gave her an excuse for the fingerprints on the murder weapon, the frying pan. This was not Queenie being a good hostess, but a deceitful