Two days after Mr. Johnson's murder comes Friday his funeral which was held inside their local church.
Everyone attended the funeral even Hannah and Alpha. The funeral was conducted by the minister of religion, after offering the prayers, everyone placed a flower on the coffin and stood up to sing hymns.
One by one, people spoke about Mr. Johnson which broke the family to tears. Finally, it was Mr. Todd, father of Hannah's turn to speak.
He stood up and walked to the side of the coffin and started speaking. Half of the people looked directly in his eyes, others just stared at their laps. Suddenly, his voice was replaced by the sound of gurgling. Everyone looked at him with jaw dropped and eyes popping out. After a few seconds, he fell on the ground with a loud thud, his hands shaking and fiddling with something on his neck, eyes were bulging out, blood sprouting like a fountain travelling from his neck onto the stainless floor creating a pool of blood around him.
He staggered on the floor while Mrs. Todd called the ambulance and the police. Everyone looked at each other to see who had commited the crime as death greeted him.
The police came first who went towards the dead body which stared at nothing and clutched loosely onto something at his neck. They removed the hands from his neck which were now covered in blood and found the same dagger pierced in his neck like an arrow through an apple.
This sight was unbearable to watch as the Todd family cried floods. The police inspected till the ambulance came. After the dead body was taken away they said, "We think it is the same killer who killed your husband Mrs. Johnson. We suspect that one of you is the killer. And we have found two clues that whoever it is used the same weapon to finish his victim and also that he has awesome knife throwing skills."
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After three days, another funeral was held for Mr. Todd, this time there was no murder. This was a relief for everyone.
Sorrow had surrounded the Todd and Johnson family as their family member had passed away not by natural death but by murder.
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Author's Note:
You tell me who is the murder? Hint: It was someone from the funeral.
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