The two men did not know each other before meeting at a drinking spot, AKP La Ode Arsangka, Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of Muna Police, told Kumparan.

As they drank, they began joking and exchanging riddles, including the classic debate over whether the chicken or the egg came first.

However, the perpetrator got emotional and left the gathering to get a sharp weapon at home.

When he returned, DR then brutally stabbed Kadir Markus 15 times, Kompas reported.

  • Wouldn’t you first have to identify the animal as a chicken? You can’t do that when it is still just an egg. You first need to see it grow up and then you can say that it’s a chicken. And that process could be influenced by developmental and environmental factors. That type of egg might have been laid many times, and yet no chicken came out. Only when a specific factor was introduced during its development was it triggered into being a chicken.