Mysterious murder

Mysterious murder

Recently local TV reported that a man traveling on an express
train from Surabaya to Jakarta was killed when he went to the
bathroom on the train. But the circumstances of the murder were
so mysterious that it is comparable to a Sherlock Holmes story.

The man apparently went to Surabaya to see his son win a gold
medal for gymnastics at the National Games (PON). The man was
apparently killed by a fatal stab wound to the throat and the
killer (or killers) threw the dead body out of the moving train
in the vicinity of the town of Blora in Central Java.

What baffled many people was the fact that his gold ring and
Rp 3 million in his pocket were untouched. This led people to
believe that the motive of the murder was not robbery.

Further, many people concluded that the murder was committed
by professional killers because none of the train passengers
noticed anything amiss and it only came to light when the victim
did not return from the toilet and the corpse was found on the
railway tracks.

A picture of the victim was shown on TV and it turned out that
the man owned a shop in the market in my neighborhood. Needless
to say, all the people in the market were shocked and the murder
was a topic of conversation for days. To date no arrest has been
made, so the murder is still shrouded in mystery.

A. DJUANA

Jakarta