Didn't start out with any items and all I have now is a few coins. It's hard to have an alibi if you have nothing or did nothing. My actions (at least for last night) can be confirmed by killing you.
I'll posit that I'm not a huge fan of all this buddying up and confirming behind the scenes without involvement from the rest of us. It's supposedly brought the suspect list down to two people, but what if you're wrong? What if the rest of you are being fooled?
This whole masonry thing is putting an itch between my shoulders. Scum may actually be disconnected at the game start. This would put merit to the idea that people with masonry abilities are a bit on the darker side because they're meant to connect with a scum buddy.