The story is about a murder that takes place in a locked room where there seems to be no escape. The author sets the scene based on where it happened, so the killer must be there. In this story there is no chance that the killer could escape because the room was locked from inside. In order to better observe the crime scene, they had to find a difficult way. They managed to open the entrance with a crowbar. As the story progresses, evidence leads them to an innocent person. Many things that perhaps you never imagined have happened. However, as many stories go, innocent people are falsely accused of the murder. Telling this story in this article would take time and would probably result in a not very good grade due to the long summary included. So if you want to know the details of this exquisitely put together tale by Edgar Allan Poe, you'll have to read it for yourself. As I was saying, it turns out it wasn't a human who killed those people, it was an orangutan. That orangutan slit someone's throat, pulled out a girl's hair, and strangled another person to death. Then, he saw that someone had witnessed these things, he panicked and hid one of the corpses in the fireplace and threw the other out of the window. The orangutan ran out of the room