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Homework Help: English: Books, Novels & Plays: In The Heat of The Night
by Jennifer Walsh
In the book "In the Heat of the Night", there are many people that are
suspicious or could be a suspect in the murder of Mantoli. For example
Virgil Tibbs was being very defensive and quick to answer when he was being
interviewed. His alibi for being at the train station at the time of the
murder could of easily been made up. His motive could be for anything maybe
he has something against him or maybe he's just a killer. I don't think he
is the killer though. Another suspect is Harvy Oberst, he seemed very calm
and shrewd when he was being interviewed. He took the mans wallet so
obviously he was at the scene of the crime and just left without calling
the police, maybe he has something to hide. His motive could be that he saw
a helpless lonely man walking and he jumped him for his money and left and
killed him at the same time. The final suspect is Sam Woods, he always has
the right questions, maybe he was the one who killed Mantoli and just came
after and let people find him so the heat was off him and is questioning
them to take the picture away from being around him. His motive might be
that this man is quite popular around town and Sam thinks he should be the
main man of the town so maybe he killed him to get the spotlight on the big
man who catches the guy who kills him. I don't know who the real killer is
at this moment I think he will come alone farther along in the book.
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