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Murder

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Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 06:49

Do you think you could get away with it?

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PlaceIntheClouds · 07/10/2025 23:03

If you left your mobile behind and walked a long distance from your house cross country and battered a complete stranger to death on a random public footpath and walked home again then I guess you might get away with it.

However a targeted attack on a known target. Hmm you are probably leaving some kind of evidence trail behind.

TheDenimPoet · 07/10/2025 22:58

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Ha, I was going to say exactly this. In one of my first lectures at uni, the lecturer told us this was the best way of killing someone.

Realistically, I don't think I'd be able to get away with it. I watch a lot of true crime documentaries and the ways they find out the truth sometimes is just unreal.

IAmKerplunk · 07/10/2025 22:51

ChrisMartinsKisskam · 07/10/2025 22:47

Yes i edited my post
still think he was guiltily as fuck

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It all sounds very dodgy!

PinkPanther57 · 07/10/2025 22:49

ConnieHeart · 07/10/2025 21:31

Yes, in the Crimewatch reconstruction the boyfriend said he saw a guy give her a kiss which is why he left the club. I don't think this guy has ever been traced

Personally I don't think Barry George killed JD. I've seen interviews with the police & they say that they don't think he would be capable of that execution style killing so meticulously carried out

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Thanks. Was it carried out meticulously (?) - the evidence doesn’t point to a clean, professional, hit.

ChrisMartinsKisskam · 07/10/2025 22:47

IAmKerplunk · 07/10/2025 22:44

Have googled. He was found not guilty. Her family said they accept he didn’t play any part in her death but that he lied about his sexuality.

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Yes i edited my post
still think he was guiltily as fuck

IAmKerplunk · 07/10/2025 22:44

ChrisMartinsKisskam · 07/10/2025 22:40

He was gay I believe but it was an arranged marriage and he has a boyfriend of sorts back in the uk

also she was heavily insured so he stood to inherit a huge amount

his family were quite rich they owned several care homes in the south west
I think she was Indian but born in Sweden and her family were also very wealthy

he was British

he got away with it as he was found not guilty but I think he had a lot to do with it

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Have googled. He was found not guilty. Her family said they accept he didn’t play any part in her death but that he lied about his sexuality.

Idstillratherbepaddleboarding · 07/10/2025 22:43

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steff13 · 07/10/2025 22:42

I thought this was going to be about crows and now I'm sad.

ChrisMartinsKisskam · 07/10/2025 22:40

SalonDesRefuses · 07/10/2025 20:33

Sorry, I know I'm being morbidly nosy, but what was the reason given for the man who arranged the car highjacking? They were on their honeymoon! Surely not marrying her would have been the easiest option.

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He was gay I believe but it was an arranged marriage and he has a boyfriend of sorts back in the uk

also she was heavily insured so he stood to inherit a huge amount

his family were quite rich they owned several care homes in the south west
I think she was Indian but born in Sweden and her family were also very wealthy

he was British

he got away with it as he was found not guilty but I think he had a lot to do with it

FuckRealityBringMeABook · 07/10/2025 21:59

Become a copper, lay into a protester or shoot someone for acting suspiciously.

CoffeeCantata · 07/10/2025 21:58

OJ Simpson got away with murder, but that was due to the crazy trial, not that he was too clever in covering his tracks.

CoffeeCantata · 07/10/2025 21:53

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 06:55

I mean CCTV would be a pain the behind

CCTV and mobile phones. Your phone is tracking and spying on you all the time. In one case a murderer was found not to have turned off his phone for 5 years…except for the 30 mins during which the murder was committed (in an attempt to hide his location). Circumstantial, but suggestive.

LadyGaGasPokerFace · 07/10/2025 21:36

Well, the rate my hair is falling out, I’m leaving my DNA everywhere, so no.

XWKD · 07/10/2025 21:33

I believe it's possible, but there's no way to know. I don't know how anyone can live like that. What if someone else was accused?

HerewardtheSleepy · 07/10/2025 21:33

Yes. I've read enough detective novels to get away with it no problem.
Piece of cake.

Unless, of course, you are talking about real life OP.

LandofTute · 07/10/2025 21:32

Ian Stewart got away with killing his first wife. He only got found out after killing the author Helen Bailey later on

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-60287425.amp

ConnieHeart · 07/10/2025 21:31

PinkPanther57 · 07/10/2025 21:09

The police apparently & Nick Ross think they got the right person re: Dando. Barry George. No professional hitman uses a modified blank firing gun & leaves bullets/ bullet casing at scene.

On Melanie, was it proven she kissed someone at club? They have DNA but not enough and/or no known matches as yet. Science may identify her killer yet.

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Yes, in the Crimewatch reconstruction the boyfriend said he saw a guy give her a kiss which is why he left the club. I don't think this guy has ever been traced

Personally I don't think Barry George killed JD. I've seen interviews with the police & they say that they don't think he would be capable of that execution style killing so meticulously carried out

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IAmKerplunk · 07/10/2025 21:12

BlackeyedSusan · 07/10/2025 21:10

Nope. Wouldn't want to, but I sometimes wonder how people write crime fiction and put in all the details. You wouldn't want some stuff in your search history.

I think that with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith with Inside No 9 - thank for they use their talents for comedy!

BlackeyedSusan · 07/10/2025 21:10

Nope. Wouldn't want to, but I sometimes wonder how people write crime fiction and put in all the details. You wouldn't want some stuff in your search history.

PinkPanther57 · 07/10/2025 21:09

ConnieHeart · 07/10/2025 20:20

I'm from the same town as Melanie Hall & used to often go to the same nightclub. I feel that MH was murdered by someone she met in the club. Was the man who kissed her ever traced? Such a shame that her friends left her on her own thinking she was with her boyfriend and vice versa. I always tell my dds never to leave any friends in their own.

I'm very intrigued as to who murdered Jill Dando. Her brother seems to think that she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time as she wasn't due to be back at her house that day. But I'm not so sure. It's almost unheard of for someone, particularly an adult, to be murdered by a stranger, plus it seemed to be so meticulously carried out

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The police apparently & Nick Ross think they got the right person re: Dando. Barry George. No professional hitman uses a modified blank firing gun & leaves bullets/ bullet casing at scene.

On Melanie, was it proven she kissed someone at club? They have DNA but not enough and/or no known matches as yet. Science may identify her killer yet.

cremello · 07/10/2025 21:08

IAmKerplunk · 07/10/2025 21:05

Just googled - imagine if she hadn’t remained conscious - it would have been put down as an accident.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-65199907.amp

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Properly awful story.

The absolute bastard

UnctuousUnicorns · 07/10/2025 21:08

ChocolateBoxCottage · 07/10/2025 20:47

Yes so dh would not see me open it behind him. It wouldn't be the door pushing him down the stairs but the person hiding behind it 🤫

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Ah, I see now. 👿 😅