If this was en episode of “Columbo”, this is where the Sargent would say, “Well, looks like an accident.” At which Columbo would find a piece of thread on the floor and say, “Hold on, Sarge.”
How about that Columbo episode of the magician found guillotined? Columbo wondered, “Why would he go out and buy a whole ham and two cabbages, then come home and cut off his own head?”