My sister had a box of money that belonged to her University society. It was stolen quite a while ago and she had to pay the money back. She thought it was me or one of my friends that had stolen it as we share a room. Today she has rang me saying she has found the box in my wardrobe, empty and broken into. She’s threatening me saying I better not be at home when she gets in. I know I didn’t steal the money and am being framed, what should I do?
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Since you cohabitate, and assuming you knew anent the box beforehand (not that it's difficult to find through rummaging), the means, motive and opportunity are trivial to establish. Fingerprint evidence analysis would likely outweigh whatever funds were kept therein. The list of people in the know, i.e whomever was told of the box or is part of society, might be limited, yet you are incognisant of any prior theft convictions or kleptomanic tendencies in all likelihood.
So... the lesson you should all learn is not to keep people's deposits (or money in general) in insecure little boxes under one's mattress.
As for yourself, could show there was no deposit(s) of a similar amount, but then cash can be expended without a trace. As siblings, you ought to know one another sufficiently to trust by word alone (or distrust), although it doesn't abate the monetary loss it wouldn't be stacked with familial interest.
Why did she blame specifically you and your friend(s), rather than any of hers? Were you in charge of safekeeping during absence? Was there any period during which the box had been left unguarded?