When she died after a sudden illness, the public was shocked, but attributed it to accident. People shook their heads and said that everyone knew you were supposed to use distilled water in a Neti Pot. Still, it was a shame, they said.
The police were ready to rule it an accidental death, but one detective wasn’t so sure. He searched the house again, and found the bottle she had supposedly used. It came back free of microbes, so he dusted it for prints, and the murderer hand’t thought to rinse them from the bottle when he made the switch.

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