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Ulysses Wilson, a Mechanicsburg attorney and contestant on ABC's reality show "Whodunnit?," sits with fans of the show at Susquehanna View Apartments in Camp Hill.

(Abbey Zelko)

A local reality star with a big secret talked to some of his fans July 9 at Susquehanna View Apartments in Camp Hill.

Ulysses Wilson, an attorney from Mechanicsburg, has been appearing on ABC's reality-competition series, "Whodunnit?" Sundays at 9 p.m. Everybody wants to know, is Ulysses the killer?

"I'd tell you who the killer is, but then I'd have to kill you," he joked.

"Whodunnit?" is technically a reality-fiction TV show, which means that the plot is scripted, but the contestants' actions are not. This can get a bit confusing for people watching the show at home. What is real? What was planned?

Though Ulysses couldn't reveal the killer, he did share some behind-the-scenes secrets about "Whodunnit?," which help to clear up some confusion. Here's what he said.

1. The scared cards aren't given to the two contestants who were the most wrong in their explanations of the murder. The contestant who was the most wrong, and therefore the next to die, receives a scared card. But the second scared card could be given to any contestant, even the killer.

2. The day before shooting starts, the killer goes in with the production group and learns what is going to happen. But he or she doesn't know about the riddles, so the killer has to play along just like everyone else to figure it out.

3. The mountain lion that you saw killing Don in last week's episode was trained and cost $5,000 an hour. But the lion wasn't very obedient. They had to pepper spray the lion to get it off the Don dummy when they were done filming.

4. Contestants can't communicate with each other when the camera isn't rolling. They were isolated in their rooms. The producers wanted to make sure that contestants couldn't work with each other and form alliances when the camera wasn't rolling. So, there are no secret plots going on off-camera that viewers aren't aware of.

5. Dontae's stunt double was actually a woman because he is a small guy. She actually shaved her head the morning they shot the scene. She was told to fall down if she ever needed someone to extinguish the fire during the stunt. In the show, she did fall as she was running, but it was an accident. She popped right back up and ran out the door. The mistake looked too good on camera to pass up, so they used the shot in the episode.

6. Filming hours varied each day. Sometimes, contestants would be filmed until midnight, and sometimes they would wake up at 3 a.m. to start their days.

7. There are around 250 people on production every day of filming.

8. The show has a $750,000 budget per day. Emmy-award winning makeup artists were hired as part of the budget to make the "murdered" contestants look dead. Sometimes contestants are in makeup for four to eight hours.

9. Ulysses has chosen to go the morgue every single episode so far. You might be wondering why he does that. Ulysses and Kam made a pact in the very beginning for Ulysses to go to the morgue and Kam to go to the crime scene each week just in case they were separated and couldn't make a game plan before they chose which location they would go to. This way, they would be sure they got clues from different locations and could better exchange information that way.

DETAILS: 9 p.m. Sundays on ABC

This story has been updated.