Essential Mystery Vocabulary: Alibi, Autopsy, Clue & More

• Alibi – evidence of one's whereabouts during a crime.
• Autopsy – postmortem exam to determine cause of death.
• Circumstantial evidence – indirect evidence suggesting guilt.
• Clue – information helping solve a mystery.
• Confession – admission of guilt.
• Culprit – perpetrator.
• Deduction – reasoning from facts to conclusion.
• Evidence – facts proving/disproving a claim.
• Forgery – creating false documents/objects.
• Homicide – killing of one person by another.
• Indictment – formal criminal charge.
• Interrogation – formal police questioning.
• Motive – reason for committing a crime.
• Perjury – lying under oath.
• Suspect – person suspected of crime.
• Testimony – sworn statement in court.
• Victim – person harmed/killed.
• Witness – person with relevant sensory information.