Mystery Vocabulary

alibi

• Responsible for doing something wrong.

• An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened.

• Why someone committed a crime.

• A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.

clue

• A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.

• Free from guilt or blame.

• Why someone committed a crime.

• An act against the law.

crime

• A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.

• To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.

• To study something by closely examining and questioning.

• An act against the law.

detective

• To question someone formally and thoroughly.

• Someone who saw or heard a crime being committed and can provide some information.

• A person who investigates mysteries and gathers information to solve the mystery.

• A statement made by a witness under an oath, especially in court.

evidence

• Something that helps prove who committed a crime.

• To question someone formally and thoroughly.

• A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.

• Anything that is secret or unknown; something to be solved.

guilty

• A fact or object that helps solve the mystery.

• Why someone committed a crime.

• Responsible for doing something wrong.

• Someone who committed a crime.

innocent

• A person who investigates mysteries and gathers information to solve the mystery.

• To question someone formally and thoroughly.

• Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.

• Free from guilt or blame.

interrogate

• An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened

• To question someone formally and thoroughly.

• Someone’s usual way of committing a crime.

• Responsible for doing something wrong.

investigate

• An excuse a suspect makes to show that they were somewhere else when the crime happened

• To make a formal statement of something sworn to be true.

• A false lead that throws the investigator off the trail of the mystery.

• To study something by closely examining and questioning.

motive

• Someone who is harmed or suffered a loss because of the crime.

• Why someone committed a crime.

• To study something by closely examining and questioning.

• Someone who saw or heard a crime being committed and can provide some information.