Murder

@CautiousLurker01 Can I just say that being a Doctor of Murder Mysteries is one of the coolest things I've ever heard.

I'd be a terrible murderer, I'd never get away with it. But then I would say that, wouldn't I...?

I really wish this was the other way round so that I could tell my joke.

I'll tell it anyway.

Why did the Mexican push his wife off a cliff?
Tequila!

Would it be easier to investigate & find Claudia & who killed Melanie Hall etc now? I imagine so.

And we only got up to Y - very sad.

Images of you walking into an Internet cafe isn't evidence that you researched murder ideas or whatever though. Plus the police would have to know date time of said excursion to the cafe to go trawling through cctv but even then it proves nothing other than you were in an Internet cafe.

Putting morality to the side, I'd find being a murderer really stressful! Same with adulterer.

I would however make an excellent spy. I'm generally invisible and people never remember my face and if they do they confuse me with someone else. I have that kind of vaguely pleasant look that people instantly trust me.

@ShodAndShadySenators pmsl at hand-sewn Cossacks.

oh I love Sue Grafton books
A for Alibi 😂. Read them all

Also you would have to go off grid digital wise especially in developed countries

so no taking phone with you as you could be tracked to exact location
no Texts phone calls messages

so get the old style Nokia 3310

afterwards burn all clothes including shoes socks afterwards and then go swimming ( chlorine gets rid of a lot of stuff 😂

in the uk if I wanted to get rid of someone I would research carbon monoxide poisoning & how it works
or maybe if I really didn’t like them a gas explosion 😂

Isn't there a high risk of CCTV/doorbell/dashcam footage of you walking down the street and entering the internet cafe ...?

I remember reading an interview with the crime author Sue Grafton.
She was going through a bitter & lengthy divorce & as a relief, would imagine how she could murder her ex-husband. She wrote down her ideas & used them in her ‘Alphabet’ series of books.
Despite technology advancing as she was writing, she continued to set her books in the 1980s as murder, private detective & police work were a completely different thing then & far easier to get away with…
Her books are bloody good reads if any crime fiction lovers haven’t come across them & shed some light on how much easier it was to hide the truth 40 years ago…

As for personally killing someone? I don’t think I could kill let alone plot it but yes, deaths by driving seem to be an easy method.

Yes
not in the uk to many cameras and nosey bastards

but abroad it would be much easier

years ago I was on holiday in Mexico and a man fell of a cliff and died

no one saw it happen as they had decided to go back to the horse ranch earlier than the rest so we’re on their own walking back

however we had been chatting to him and his wife at the hotel and she let it slip that he had just won a huge payout for a industrial injury and this was a big holiday for them
he was not walking that well and
used a cane so not very stable

the cliff was like a slope that went straight down like a slide and then a sheer drop to the bottom anyone ever saw Rambo where he shoot’s the guy out off thr helicopter- it was like that . They had to take his body out on horse as they couldn’t get transport to it it was that remote

i often wonder if she “pushed “ him to take the money but didn’t really think about it till I got back home
I didn’t see her afterwards as the rope moved her hotel

but if I wanted to kill someone then it would be on holiday away from the uk where the laws are shit and either push them off a cliff or off a boat and get them drunk go for a midnight swim and drown them or maybe take them diving and turn of the air or give them a faulty air bottle
😂
I’ve put some thought into it as you can tell

"hand-sewn cossacks" - I'm imagining little Russian puppets all dancing in a row, now. 😅

My cousin broke her back tripping on her pj bottoms going downstairs, I suppose that counts as attempted murder.

Oh, just remembered my current username.

I feel my namesake is safe from that method.

Or just make someone die laughing...

Not with the amount of hair I seem to leave in my wake.

To bring it round to a real life story though, the Claudia Lawrence story, assuming she was killed, is an example of someone having got away with it, because she's never sadly been found.

Yes, you're right. It was a long time ago when I read it. His short stories are brilliant, as are his stories for adults.

Yes. It’s easier to get away with than realised. Harder with constant surveillance but most CCTV doesn’t work and if you use cash, you can make out like a bandit.

My DP always reckons he could 🤣

Probably not, even if I planned everything carefully I would definitely slip up somewhere and with all the CCTV and Ring cameras everywhere…no chance. BUT if I did succeed I would probably drive myself mad thinking that every knock on the door, every phone call is someone coming to arrest me.

No chance. I drop hair around the place like there's no tomorrow. There's no way I wouldn't leave multiple bits of DNA behind one way or another. Also, I'm clumsy, so I'd break stuff and probably cause so much noise I'd get arrested on the spot. If that didn't happen, my guilty conscience would dob me in.

Three threads on murder or maybe murder? Is this an in joke?