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Sue met a man at her mothers funeral. After talking to him for quite awhile she concluded that he was her 'soul mate'. She felt that he was the man for her however they didn't exchange numbers, she didn't ask for his name, and has no idea on how to contact him.
Three days later Sue murdered her sister.
Why?

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Now this riddle has all the info you need to solve it. I will only let you know what the answer is once someone solves it (there is a reason for it).
Take as many shots at it as you like but only like minded people are capable of coming up with the answer.
Good luck

(Yes, I have considered that maybe I'm taking this too far.)

The riddle is more of a logic puzzle, the answer is a simple one. So simple that if it took time for you to solve it, you are wrong even if you answered it right. First let me post some of the wrong answers.

Aspirit

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I think the answer to the riddle on Hatrack is: Sue's brother-in-law

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nope

Darklight

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Many years earlier, Sue and her sister had a huge fight, and they never saw each other again. Years later, their mother dies, and at the funeral Sue gets talking to a man who she believes to be her soul mate. Later, she finds out this man is her sister’s husband, and in order for them to be together, Sue kills her sister.

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Wow. A lot of thought into that one but it's wrong as well.

Annepin

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The man was the funeral director or a mortician? She killed her sister so she could go to another funeral and meet him again.

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On the right track but wrong. If he was the funeral director all Sue would have needed to do is knock on the funeral home door.

Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury

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She killed her sister so there would be another funeral and she would see him again?

He wasn't the undertaker/mortician or the minister because she wouldn't need to have a funeral to find him.

He may have been the gravedigger or the coffin maker because he would only show up if there actually were a funeral, or he may have been the cremator if there were no coffin.

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Very good, KDW, however you found it important to identify the man. That wasn't important but yours was the second email I got. So I am going to qualify yours as correct.

Then there was my first email.

WouldBe

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So he'd come to her sister's funeral and meet up with him

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Absolutely correct.

Now Johnny, tell them what they won.

Congratulations! You have shown to have a similar trait associated with serial killers! A test much like this was developed by criminal psychologist to test the pathological behavior of suspected people.
Most people would attempt to think of a motive involving the man in the story and how he was related to others in the riddle (he was involved with his sister, was in co-hoots with his sister to kill her mother, had some other past involving the family) all which were irrelevant to this puzzle.
However a serial killer that looks at life cheaply and thinks of murder as a logical solution to get what they want come up with that answer as easily as why did the man open his umbrella when it started to rain?

So, even though Annepin answered it correct, she is off the hook for qualifing her answer (but were still going to keep an eye on you).

As far as for the other two free thinkers, I would like say that even though WouldBe's answer came to me 45 minutes after I posted it, I don't believe that either you or KDW have such pathological tendencies, your just a little smarter than the rest of us.

But I would like to say that WouldBe is the very best writer on hatrack and we should congratulate him and Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury or as she is also-known-as SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED!
or else!

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