It's been a while, but here's another one of our Random Murder Mysteries. The idea is that you roll an eight-sided die against the tables below to randomly generate the outline of a murder mystery for the player characters in your roleplaying game campaign to solve. Some of the main results have sub-results that must also be generated. (If some results don't seem to match, you can either re-roll, or use them to deepen the mystery... or make the murderer seem more insane or evil.
2. In the master bedroom.
3. In the dining room.
4. In the kitchen.
5. In the garage.
6. In the bathroom.
7. In the trunk of her car.
8. Stuffed into the yard waste recycling bin.
HOW WAS SHE DRESSED?
1-2. What she commonly wore around the house.
3-4. Exercise clothes.
5-6. Clothes for working in the yard.
7. Underwear and dressing gown..
8. A bath towel.
HOW WAS SHE KILLED?
1. Hanged.
2. Drowned in the bath tub (1-6); in the pool (7-8).
3. Strangled with a power cord (1-2); blinds cord (3-4); scarf (5-7); bed sheet (8).
4. Head bashed in with a (1-3) meat tenderizer; (4-6) hammer; (7-8) silver candlestick.
5. Suffocated with a throw pillow.
6. Throat slit.
7. Run over with her car.
8. Stabbed 1-8 times.
WHO KILLED HER?
1. Her Husband.
2. Her Mother-in-Law.
3. The Postman.
4. The Poolboy
5. The Pastor.
6. The Police Officer.
7. Her Ex (1-4) Boyfriend; (5-6) Girlfriend; (7-8) Husband.
8. Her Estranged Step-Sister.
WHY WAS SHE KILLED?
1. Revenge. (Roll on the Dark Secrets table.)
2. Jealousy.
3. So she wouldn't reveal killer's secret. (Roll on Dark Secrets table.)
4. So her soul could be married to a demon in a paranormal shotgun-style wedding.
5. She rebuffed the murderer's sexual advances.
6. She was the latest victim of a serial killer. Another victim will die in 1-8 days.
7. Revenge for her husband's betraying a (1-3) drug cartel; (4-5) demonic cult; (6-8) secret assassins guild.
8. She was blackmailing the killer with pictures of kinky sex acts. (If the Husband was indicated as the killer, he is being framed by the actual killer. Roll again on the Who Killed Her table to see who it is. Ignore and reroll additional results of 1.)
WHAT IS THE DARK SECRET?
1-3. The Young Housewife had been given a new identity after testifying against a mob hitman who was sent to prison for the rest of his life. She was recognized by the killer, and he killed her for the bounty the mob put on her.
4-5. The killer and the Young Housewife were members of the same cult devoted to serving and worshipping a demonic entity. She wanted to leave the cult behind.
6-7. The Young Housewife and the killer were con-artist partners, and she was supposed to rob her husband of all his money. She truly fell in love with him, and she wanted nothing more to do with the killer. (If the Husband is the killer, he murdered her in a fit of rage, and is framing her partner for her death. Roll on the Who Killed Her table to determine who the partner in the con was.)
8. The Young Housewife was raised and trained to be an assassin and agent for an international cabal, but she wanted to leave that life behind. The killer was sent to eliminate her... and will target investigators when they start snooping around.
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If you found this post useful and entertaining, check out Murder Most Random, a collection of 12 random murder mystery outline generators. Sales will encourage us to make more... as would comments on this post. For example, is there a generic type of person you'd like to see made a murder victim? Let us know!
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