Police Riddles

Here you find our popular collection of police riddles and other interesting and fun police puzzles and brain teasers of all kinds. To solve the puzzles, you have to let your imagination run wild and see beyond logic to find the correct answer!

A man is found murdered on a Sunday morning. His wife calls the police, who question the wife and the staff, and are given the following alibis:

the wife says she was sleeping,
the butler was cleaning the closet,
the gardener was picking vegetables,
the maid was getting the mail, and
the cook was preparing breakfast.

Immediately, the police arrest the murderer.

Who did it and how did the police know?

Show answer

There is no mail on Sundays.

Category: Hard RiddlesTopics: Murder, Police

A man murders his wife with a knife in their car. Nobody is around to see this.

He throws her out of the car being careful not to leave any fingerprints on her body.

Next he throws the knife off of a cliff into a gorge where it will never be found and he goes home.

An hour later the police call him and tell him that his wife has been murdered and he needs to come to the scene of the crime immediately.

As soon as he arrives, he is arrested.

How did they know he did it?

Show answer

He never asked the cop where the scene of the crime was, so they knew that he had murdered his wife.

Category: Hard RiddlesTopics: Murder, Police