[ WP ] Tell a story in which the narrator tells the reader a single lie . Readers are to deduce what the lie is using hints from the story .

At 3 pm, Sunday afternoon - Mrs. Elma Sanders was murdered. 
 
 The widow of 63 was a fairly quaint women. She lived alone and for the most part, quietly. She was not well known by the neighborhood, and was often called an old witch by certain people. She was particularly memorable for refusing to give back objects that fell in her yard. She had no close relations. 
 
 The crime took place at her house, in her own bedroom. It was a chilly day outside, cloudy, but not raining. The criminal broke through her front door and stabbed her three times in the neck with a kitchen knife. 
 
 Reports have shown that Mrs. Sanders survived initially after the assault, but was trapped under a heavy chair preventing her movement. The criminal, noticing that his victim was still squirming, had brought the chair that was originally placed in her dining room to trap her. During the entire ordeal, Mrs. Sanders managed to let out one ear-piercing scream for help before she was gagged silent by her assailant. 
 
 The criminal, after leaving the widow to slowly bleed out, then looked for a way to escape. Though he tried the window, he did not manage to figure out how to open it. He would eventually leave by sneaking out of the back entrance, in her study. He escaped unnoticed into the street. 
 
 Police would arrive a few minutes later, after someone informed them of the scream and broken door. Investigators attempted to find the criminal, but no weapon was ever found. Fingerprints on the chair were taken, but the criminal had worn a pair of dark gloves, so no matches were found there either. 
 
 The people in the neighborhood were each privately investigated, but nothing ever came of it. Each person passed the initial questioning and lie detector test, and despite the police's best attempts to intimidate them into dropping a name or clue, not one of them had anything to say. 
 
 When their houses were searched, nothing was found. The criminal had already replaced the knife and gotten a new one. As for motives, it seemed almost everyone in the neighborhood had some personal vendetta against Mrs. Sanders, so the list of suspects was never narrowed. In the end, it was clear that someone had murdered the old witch- 
 
 But no one ever knew who it was. 
 

