With this information, determine how they died.
Here's a clue.
List all of your assumptions from the example.
This exercise requires you to guard against jumping to
conclusions while the fraud examiner or forensic accountant
needs to think critically.
The direction of the investigation is often guided by
assumptions.
The difficult challenge is not the questioning of the
assumptions that the investigators identified, but
the assumptions the investigator is subconsciously making without
even realizing it.
That's why it's important that the investigator must
continually challenge the investigative approach and
outcomes to assure that the investigation is moving toward a
resolution, a resolution that stands up to the scrutiny of
others.
Back to the example.
Most students assume that Anthony and Cleopatra are people
when in the scenario they are actually fish.
Once the assumption of people is eliminated, the solution comes
much more easily.