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Murder

284 replies

Frankblackwife · 07/10/2025 06:49

Do you think you could get away with it?

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Elsvieta · 09/10/2025 18:15

everyoldsock · 09/10/2025 13:50

Not bad at all @Elsvieta but the person’s screams or shouting may be heard by someone. And it relies on that person not having a device with them.

Edited

True - I should have added "element of surprise" - they never see it coming, so no screaming and no struggle which would transfer forensic evidence to the killer. Something that can be done from a distance. But guns are noisy. Bow and arrow?

Elsvieta · 09/10/2025 18:22

ClareBlue · 09/10/2025 13:41

You seem to have given this alot of thought....

I have! Ever since I was a child. Nobody I want to murder though, honestly!

I suppose the main problem is always how to conceal / destroy the body without covering yourself in forensic evidence. In a place as densely-populated as the UK, anyway, where bodies are so often found by dog-walkers etc. Maybe you need somewhere with proper wilderness, where a body could go down a ravine or something in an area where maybe nobody will come along for years.

Second thoughts, maybe the perfect murder doesn't look like one; that gets mistaken for an accident or something, or a person who's been killed in war or a disaster zone.

sashh · 10/10/2025 06:44

everyoldsock · 09/10/2025 13:50

Not bad at all @Elsvieta but the person’s screams or shouting may be heard by someone. And it relies on that person not having a device with them.

Edited

If you stab someone in the lung first they can't scream.

But it would probably be better to knock them out first.

On TV it seems like anyone can get hold of chloroform.

I've just thought of another method you might get away with. If you could cause a disaster, you would kill / injure many people including the one you want rid of, you would have to be a total psychopath. There would have to be distance between you and the disaster.

Maybe radicalise someone to carry out an attack, but you would have to cover your radicalisation contact.

If you could get your subject in to prison it may be possible to bribe another prisoner. But again you would have to cover any contact.

I'm spending too much time thinking about this aren't I?

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/10/2025 18:43

I'm bloody glad I don't know some of you lot in real life! 😨 😅

everyoldsock · 10/10/2025 19:10

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/10/2025 18:43

I'm bloody glad I don't know some of you lot in real life! 😨 😅

Maybe you do 😉

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/10/2025 19:12

everyoldsock · 10/10/2025 19:10

Maybe you do 😉

😬

Hoppinggreen · 10/10/2025 19:15

Morally I think I could do it but very few people get away with it now due to forensics.

sashh · 11/10/2025 03:39

Hoppinggreen · 10/10/2025 19:15

Morally I think I could do it but very few people get away with it now due to forensics.

Harold Shipman got away with it for years. So I think being an upstanding member of the community and some medical knowledge, and of course access to drugs.

Hoppinggreen · 11/10/2025 14:38

sashh · 11/10/2025 03:39

Harold Shipman got away with it for years. So I think being an upstanding member of the community and some medical knowledge, and of course access to drugs.

Yes but eventually he made mistakes.
Funnily enough I knew him professionally, nice chap (it seemed). If I had to pick any of the GPs I knew as a murderer it would not have been him

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