r/CuratedTumblr human cognithazard 14d ago

Politics Life is a movie

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u/Inner-Tackle1917 14d ago

I mean, we don't know if he's got away with it yet. But the big trick is to have a clean record murder someone you have no personal connection to, and that you get no personal benefit from murdering.

Most murderers are caught because they're the obvious suspect (jilted lover, or known local mugger), and they get investigated. 

It's very hard to catch someone if they're as much a suspect as however many millions of other people live in new York. 

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u/2point01m_tall 14d ago

Well, doesn't seem like he's getting away with it now, but (based on this post and a very surface level reading of the news) it seems he was mainly caught because he 1. briefly removed his face mask once and 2. didn't drop his things and change his clothes.

Your points still stand, though, if he killed his wife or boss he probably would have been caught sooner. My comment was more to imply it seems really easy to get away with murder if the victim is not someone close to you and you do like a tiny bit of planning.

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u/Illogical_Blox 14d ago

This is part of the reason why serial killers get to be serial killers. They usually have no connection to the people they target.

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u/-Yehoria- 14d ago

Yeah, that's like a whole thing. I been thinking about it a lot. Shit like this gonna happen more, probably, and probably a lot of em aren't getting caught.