Can you solve this "spirited away" mystery?

Question

10 point for the first one to get this right !!!and get paid!!!probably not!!!nope your not getting paid!!!ok here it is...

one day in the last few days of winter a detective,about 25 years old,goes to an old town where people were so called "spirited away" and vanished into thin air.he stayed in an old rustic inn with his partner near a rice field,which had this clever watering system,a door opens up and floods the rice field with about a foot of water.

they decide to split up and search for clues.a few hours passed and he found nothing.he decides to go back and regroup then try again tomorrow.when they got back to the inn he found out his partner found out a clue to how the killer might have done it,and his partner decided to go look for more clues.being tired and sleepy he told his partner that he'd turn in for the night.and his partner left

the next day,his partner was missing,he wasn't found anywhere! the only clue was that there seems to be a trail of muddy foot prints,the same design his partners shoes were.he followed the trail and lead across the rice field...only some thing was weird...the prints stop half way!!!and there were no other marks on the dirt!!! he was "spirited away"

upon searching through his partner's room he noticed one item was missing and one item alone....your goal is to find out which item it was and how he was "spirited away"

at the beginning he had brought:

1.)a pack of cigarettes

2.)a sleeping bag

3.)a flash light

4.)matches

5.)a harmonica

6.)a bag of oats

7.)a calculator

8.)a tent

9.)a deck of cards

10.)a lighter

11.)a life raft

12.)a cellphone

13.)a needle

14.)a pogo-stick

15.)a notebook

16.)a pen

so whats the real explination?how did this happen?

Answer 1

he took the life raft and when the gate opened he was washed away

Answer 2

11) the life raft.

You said the fields could be flooded up the 1 feet. The murderer can use the life raft to move around the field without any footprints.

The detective's partner was walking across the field (which explains the muddy footprints) but when he got to half way, the murderer released the water and so flooding the field.

The murderer can then make his way to the partner on the life raft without leaving any footprints himself.

The partner would be somewhat spooked and unable to move freely, making him an easy target.

The water was then drained using the water system, or drained away naturally, leaving the partner's footprints.

Answer 3

1. he siept on the rice field on the sleeping bag and drowned.

2. killer drags the partner out to the rice field while he is sleeping on the sleeping bag while wearing the partner's shoes, put the shoes back, and left him there to drown.

Answer 4

If the tracks only stop half way, that means that he could have used the pogo stick. The item that was left is the flash light because so no one couldn't see the person that vanished.

Answer 5

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