Queenie Keithley Research Paper

Guilty or Not
“If you commit the crime, you are guilty”(Rush Limbaugh). Even though not all crimes are reported to the police, crime rates have fallen since the early 1990’s. For example, the country of Honduras has the average highest murder rate at about 90 people per 100,000 people. The criminals that commit the crime are most likely going to lie to you. They may make up stories and pretend it was something else. Queenie Keithley is guilty because she left the country club 10 minutes early, she was in an argument with her husband, Joe, and the glass in Joe’s hand was not broken after he “fell” down the stairs.
After Queenie went to the ballroom dance club she invited her friends to come to her house to house to play bingo. The text states, “They got to the house about 10 minutes after Queenie.”(Keithley) This quote shows that Queenie arrived at the house ten minutes before her friends. When her friends arrived, she told them that Joe died (Keithley). Queenie sounds suspicious because she did nothing for 10 minutes, when she should have called the police. If Joe had died from falling down the stairs, Queenie would have acted sooner. The reason why Queenie could have left early was because she had to first murder Joe before her friends showed up. During the ten minutes will Queenie was alone, she could have put the cup in
The text states, “She tore out of the house after an argument with her husband Joe.”(Keithley) The reason she was at the country club is that she was still mad about the argument (Keithley). Queenie left because she didn’t want to be home with Joe. In the picture, Joe is in his tuxedo because he was going to go to the club with Queenie. (Keithley) They got into an argument, so Joe stayed home. When Queenie got home she decided to kill Joe. She killed Joe because she probably did not like what Joe had to say during their little argument. Queenie did not like having a mean, arguing