Why state the obvious?

  Duh?  Of course it was "found buried under a tree in Minnesota".  I was standing right next to the man who found it.  Yet Duane could not have written the note, much less read it.  Part of me was in, "Oh no, not another mystery" mode.  But the Ms Nosy-Parker-wanna -be detective part part of me was lit up like a Roman candle.