Murder

A brief google suggests around 600 murders per year in the UK with approximately 60 being unsolved. So, someone’s getting away with it.

@TheNightingalesStarling day before bin day is next level murder planning.
I’ll never sleep well on Tuesday nights ever again!

How can you know that? When it’s a domestic murder husbands and wives are caught easily. But when it’s not even regarded as murder as I said before accident or natural causes. There is no way of knowing how many go unpunished.

The tips I've picked up from TV/books

• regularly leave your phone at home, so gaps in tracking look normal
• but make sure a home computer is active in that time
• make it random
• don't drive
• stay away from houses, shops etc. Pick roads with long driveways. (This is more from Police investigating a local crime... yes lots of us had cameras.. but none actually caught anything on the road as we were all too far back)
• keep it simple.
• do it in winter so gloves etc don't look put of place
• day before bin day so all evidence is long gone.

I was reading a brilliant book, by an ex coroner/pathologist/can't remember the name, but it was what Quincy used to do!

He was saying that 50 years ago, the best way would have been an injection of insulin, somewhere into the toes. Very fine pinprick, nothing foreign in the blood, and blood sugar levels were not routinely checked in a post mortem.

They are now, though.

To be fair, I could just let my chemistry students do what they want in practicals. It wouldn't take long...

Frozen leg of lamb, like in the Roald Dahl short story they did on Tales of the Unexpected. In reality though, I’d only want to kill someone, truly, if they’d hurt my child, and then I wouldn’t particularly care if I was caught.

I often think of that case of the German mother who pre-meditatedly killed the man who molested her daughter in the courtroom where he was being tried for the crime. I think if I murdered someone it would be like that.

It depends on who I chose to murder.

I watch so many true crime documentaries, listen to so many podcasts and read so many thrillers that I like to think I could, but I’m also lazy and forgetful so in reality I probably wouldn’t be able to!

I would get away with it. I live very rurally I know some very deep pits and murky pools of water and I'm a floral dress wearing benign looking school volunteer and church cleaner they would never suspect me!
But if you want to get away with a random murder it has to be a complete stranger tbf.

No one is oh so special to get away with it. Most murderers are caught.

No too many ring door bells around - can't move without being caught on camera these days.

It would need to be somewhere secluded like a forest and someone with zero connection to you. Random dog walker maybe. What's the point if you can't even take out your enemies?

No because I am not a psychopath

No way because I'm absolutely rubbish at dealing with emotional baggage by myself and I would end up telling someone and once you've told someone you are pretty much done for if the TV is to be believed.

I’m so clumsy I’d probably topple over too with the force you’d need to use. I think it would actually be very hard to shove someone off a cliff, both physically AND emotionally.
You’d have to hate their guts, and what would I be doing strolling about on top of cliffs with someone I hated enough to murder????

I think I'm more likely to get away with it because I live in South Africa.

Just recently a tourist here "left his wife to continue her hike" and she fell off a cliff. Pretty sure he purposely chose this country because our police force is a joke.

A few years ago a couple came here on their honeymoon and the man arrange a car highjacking where his wife got killed.

Mind you, the police did manage to figure that one out fairly quickly, but he was an idiot.

If you're clever, I really think you could get away with it here. Sadly.

Edited to add the cliff story is alleged. It's still very recent and no-one has charged the husband with anything

Tv shows always make it look easy, one slip or bump on the head and boof! Someone’s gone… I don’t think that’s the reality though.

No way. I'm a massive over sharer when nervous and would (in a non bragging way) let slip what I'd done.

I'd like to think I could push someone off a cliff but in reality I can barely get a basket of washing upstairs so the chances of pushing an adult human close enough to the cliff edge for them to 'fall' is zero.

Maybe mushroom poisoning but we've seen how that can be messed up.

I think murder is overrated. I'd prefer long term vengeance so the person I hated so much was around to see their own demise. Mwahahahahahaha

I listened to a crime podcast and the experts said it’s getting rid of the body that gets most people caught…
I can’t imagine killing anyone though, so I don’t think I’ll need to worry about it too much.

It’s easy to get away with murder if it’s very badly investigated. I’ve listened to so many true crime podcasts where inept/incompetent/lazy/corrupt policing have allowed murders to go unsolved for decades.

I still fret about minor things I did wrong from 50 years ago so, no, I’d fess up pretty quickly.

you gotta push em off a cliff (or down the stairs for less drama) can’t prove it. I’ve heard