It was a man’s birthday. He lay dead in the lounge room of his house. Next to his body was a note, written in pencil. The note read ‘Happy Birthday, Friend’. The victim had a girlfriend and the police suspected her ex-boyfriend.
They could find no obvious evidence. While searching the ex-boyfriend’s car, the police saw an envelope with the girlfriend’s address written on it. They thought they would get the handwriting checked against the note. The scientist in charge came in early to work the next day; it was 7am.
He looked out his window which faced east and stared at the rising sun and it was then that he realised how to prove the ex-boyfriend killed the man, even though the girlfriend’s address was not written in the same handwriting.
How did he do it?
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