Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again!

Was the crime theft?
Was the crime robbery?
Was the crime burglary?
Was the crime vandalism?
Was the crime fraud?
Was the crime embezzlement?
Was the crime counterfeiting?
Was the crime related to what would usually be called gambling?
Was it a “white-collar” crime?

Just for simplicity in future questions, is Eli male? Is Christy female? Are both adult humans? (if any pronouns are off in the following, answer as if they were correct)

Did Christy help with the criminal act?
Did she know at the time that she was helping with a criminal act?
When she did whatever it was that led to Eli getting caught, did she do it for the purpose of getting Eli caught?
Was it something that she would have done even if the criminal act hadn’t occurred?

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Is Christy a dog?

I’m guessing Christy was a dog, like LennieB said, but just to cover other possibilities:

Is Christy a cat?
Is Christy a mammal?
Is Christy a bird?
Is Christy a domesticated animal?
Is Christy a machine?

No.

Is Christy a storm?

Christy is an organization of sorts. People are in it, but it isn’t an individual.

Does “He wouldn’t have been caught” mean that nobody otherwise knew about the crime at all?
Or did people know there was a crime, but not know Eli was the criminal?
Or did they know he was the criminal, and “caught” means he was actually apprehended because of something Christy did?

Is Christy a religious organization? Like… a Christ-y one?

Is the counterfeiting money? Documents? Art?

Yep

Is “Christy” Christie’s, the British Auction House?

YES

Art forger Ely Sakhai and Christie’s!

He wouldn’t have been caught, except that both Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctioned off forgeries of the same original painting! OOPS!

Yes, he bought the original painting and made a copy, which he sold on his own. He then took the original to an Sotheby’s and they sold it(no problem). The PROBLEM is that his copy also came up for sale at Christies across the street at the same time.

Okay, let me try one.
Maurice’s six-legged brother was badly in need of help. But when Maurice found him, he shot him.

All humans?

Does shot mean “shot with a gun”? Like a bullet comes out of a gun into maurices brother?

Was Maruice helping him by shooting him?

Is this a true story?

yes

Is Maurice a photographer?

Was Maurice’s brother carrying something like a chair or the table?

Is Maurice’s brother a serial killer?

Were all the legs involved regular human legs?

Did they all look like human legs?

Was Maurice’s brother born with said six legs?

Yes