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Mystery – July 2

“In that moment, he said to me, ‘Mommy, they’re going to kill Andrés.’ I replied: ‘No sweetheart, people aren’t killed for mistakes. Everyone in Colombia loves Andrés.’”

On this date in 1994, El Caballero del Fútbol was shot to death after scoring an own goal for the USA.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist discovers an unexpectedly irrelevant motive for a murder.

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