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Frankblackwife · 2025-10-07T05:49:13+00:00

Do you think you could get away with it?

AutumnWreath · 07/10/2025 09:04

I think the only person I'd be driven to murder would be if they had seriously hurt my child / murdered them .
But it would have to be ( to get away with it ) in a dish best served cold as not to be obvious , or you'd have to pay someone to do it for you whilst you are on show somewhere else .

I also add - I think everyone has the potential to be pushed to kill .

booksnbaking · 07/10/2025 09:02

BlessedAreThePureOfHeart · 07/10/2025 07:23

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.

Floral, you say? I now have the plot of Coldwater playing in my head...

Coffeetime25 · 07/10/2025 08:56

knowing my luck I would get caught on route to murder the person lol I def not a person who should go into crime

AliceMaforethought · 07/10/2025 08:53

Probably, but I'd always be looking over my shoulder. Plus I don't really have anyone I want to murder.

CautiousLurker01 · 07/10/2025 08:52

autienotnaughty · 07/10/2025 08:50

There’s definitely ways and means. A spouse or person close to you you would need to make it look like an accident. But someone from your past or who’s unconnected to you if you are careful you could get away with it.

Yes, that’s where I’ve got to - needs to look like a genuine accident or there is the ‘strangers on a train’ model [where two people who are completely unconnected commit the other’s murder - Agatha Christie was a genius].

evtheria · 07/10/2025 08:51

Nope, though I watch too many shows where the detectives always get their man/woman.

TessTickle0 · 07/10/2025 08:51

I would also be scared they would come back to haunt me! 😀

autienotnaughty · 07/10/2025 08:50

There’s definitely ways and means. A spouse or person close to you you would need to make it look like an accident. But someone from your past or who’s unconnected to you if you are careful you could get away with it.

CautiousLurker01 · 07/10/2025 08:46

Tbh I genuinely think anyone is capable of murder if the circumstances are right (self defence, protecting children, height of passion, psychic break), but I think the cold calculating pre-meditated variety is harder to pull off, especially these days. There is such a digital and paper trail behind nearly every social interaction now that unless you can gain access to your victim without leaving any physical trace, the police would track you and call you in for interview and account in 99% of situations now. And then there is the fact that even a few epithelial cells (eg a couple of flakes of dandruff) will leave a DNA trace at a scene - I think you’d get caught.

So it’s not the murder itself I think is unlikely, but the getting away with it is increasingly hard. Though I have spent many a night with a bottle of wine trying to work out how I might do it! 🤣

TessTickle0 · 07/10/2025 08:46

I struggle with accidentally killing an insect, so I simply couldn't! Or is that what I want everyone to believe??

AbstractReflections · 07/10/2025 08:44

In this day and age I wonder how many murders will be solved because murderers have asked ChatGPT "how to get away with murder" or similar. I bet loads!

booksnbaking · 07/10/2025 08:39

SonicBoomInTheRoom · 07/10/2025 08:28

My son's bedroom?

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That could work. Hard to isolate random DNA in a soup of DNA.

Edited to add: I am not a forensic anything. It may be easy as pie for all I know.

beaniebabby · 07/10/2025 08:38

Hit them with a car as the sentences for death by dangerous driving are pitiful.

This

TeaBiscuitsNaptime · 07/10/2025 08:35

I don't know. Never really thought about it ...until now 🤔 😆

PreciousTatas · 07/10/2025 08:34

Ponoka7 · 07/10/2025 07:58

As said by a pp, I could only now do it if one of my GC were SA/killed. I'd risk six years on a all inclusive at HMP. But then I'd rather inflict life changing injuries. Watching the news last night, a man got for years for fraud and eighteen months for child sexual offences, I'd struggle to live with that if it involved a child in the family.

An elderly relative once shocked us all by coming out with what she had wanted to do with the man who attacked her as a child.

She said she had fantasies of becoming a medical professional, tracking him down and removing his genitals, hands, feet and eyes but making sure he lived.

Its a shame she never found him.

HeadsWinTailsLose · 07/10/2025 08:33

Hit them with a car as the sentences for death by dangerous driving are pitiful.

PreciousTatas · 07/10/2025 08:31

I'm guessing I wouldn't.

Because I would never kill a stranger unprovoked, the only way I think I could be enraged enough to take a life is if someone had seriously hurt one of my children.

So it would be fairly obvious who did it.

Gallivant · 07/10/2025 08:30

I'd prefer the pass-agg method of driving someone to suicide.

SonicBoomInTheRoom · 07/10/2025 08:28

booksnbaking · 07/10/2025 08:23

We've all seen the films where a herd of pigs scoffs down a baddie quick smart, but how long would a single porker take to eat a human? I think you're gonna need a bigger pigsty.

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My son's bedroom?

fourelementary · 07/10/2025 08:25

Yes. I’m a nurse in the community so I reckon I could. I would never want to though.

Laiste · 07/10/2025 08:24

Oooooh i think about this all the time ! (well not ALL the time ... but a lot when bored, driving ect) Great thread idea OP

Have t read thread yet - bbl

CautiousLurker01 · 07/10/2025 08:24

My DH and I discuss this at various points - I am a PhD student specialising in crime fiction, not a latent sociopath, just to clarify. And we have worked out that given the way our phones can be tracked and the fact that all our neighbours have ring/other brand security systems after a spate of break-ins the last few years, we couldn’t even get away with popping some excess rubbish in a neighbour’s bin on bin-day, let alone murder.

I think that why there are so many cold case crime series now. Murder was so easy before surveillance and phone tracking…

elgreco · 07/10/2025 08:24

Get a second pig to eat first pig

booksnbaking · 07/10/2025 08:23

QuirkyHorse · 07/10/2025 06:52

Doubt it.
But I tell my dh to be very worried if he spots a big hole and I come home with a pig from market 😂 (we live on a farm, so it wouldn't be unusual to come home with a random animal in tow)

Although you'd have to have a hard heart and a strong stomach to watch/know the pig was eating a body.

We've all seen the films where a herd of pigs scoffs down a baddie quick smart, but how long would a single porker take to eat a human? I think you're gonna need a bigger pigsty.

SonicBoomInTheRoom · 07/10/2025 08:10

Appear on Hollyoaks. They get away with it all the time.