Pipsissiway_Potts
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Another Brainscratch synopsis of the case. Never heard of it before today.
Another possibility is that the crime was entirely random, by a stranger who was acting out a psychosis. The empty blue envelope could have been an old envelope from a Birthday or some other Greetings card. 'Paul' is the name of the man who received the card. Whether Paul was the gunman or the card was taken from a relative, a friend, or bought at a secondhand store, hard to say. My guess is that the perpetrator lived in town and may have seen Alastair and formed an imaginary bond with him. Perhaps the gunman had dreams, visions, hallucinations about Paul that led the man to kill him when Alastair didn't respond "in the correct way" to the blue envelope. Maybe Alastair was supposed to "know" what the blue envelope "meant" and when he didn't, the gunman had to kill him. Bizarre, ridiculous, certainly. So is the notion of an empty envelope, a man waiting for seven minutes on a doorstep when he would've been seen by anyone passing by, or using an antique gun that could be traced to its prior owner. Nothing makes sense, which is why I believe it does NOT make sense. I could be entirely wrong. I just hope this crime is eventually solved.