In response to Shun Di
Yeah, the cops will love it if you go and murder based on your in-depth knowledge of TV shows. Despite a few news articles about the "dangers" these shows constitute by blowing the whistle on secrets of police work... do you know how many murderers have been caught since CSI-type shows became popular, because they followed the erroneous advice they got from the TV? :P

The same thing happened as each revolution in the "gory detail" level of mystery novels rose. Example: in a few actual criminal cases, victims were emersed in lime pits because this prevented them from smelling (same reason farmers often cover carcasses of predators they shoot with lime when they bury them... to prevent it from drawing scavengers or other predators)... somehow, this detail got twisted around in the imagination of writers, so that murderers were disposing of bodies in lime because it would cause the corpse to rapidy dissolve without a trace. In actual fact, the mineral has an almost petrifying effect, mummifying the corpse and preserving it indefinitely. More than one real-life murderer has been foiled because they relied on this standby.

More than one episode of CSI and other "procedurals" have been based around a particular urban myth, or the popular misconception about a real world case (not the case itself.) Some times they've managed to set the record straight (I don't recall if it was CSI, but one of those shows did the "scuba diver in a tree" story, and it turned out to be a fake to hide a murder), but in other cases they've only gone on "what everybody knows" and only spread the mythtakes further. :P

As for the post this was a response to... I could point out three major mistakes with the methodology, but I won't. :P I will, however, say that even if those mistakes weren't there, it's far from foolproof, it does nothing to eliminate the chance of random witnesses to your coming and going, and one of the first people suspicion will fall upon (after whoever lives with the victim) is the new acquaintance that nobody really knows.

There's no way to get around this, though. There is no such thing as the textbook "perfect murder." Too many random factors have to come together just, well, perfectly for you to have a prayer. I understand, though, that this is just one more morbid game kids play, so won't say anything else on the subject. :P
In response to Ter13
That added to my blank spot. Thanks for the info. :D
In response to Ter13
They say on dark stormy nights you can still hear his blood soaked hook tapping away on the dashboard of the car... Tap. Tap. Tap.
Why the hell is this girl flirting at a family funeral? What is this, arkansas?
Elven_Hero wrote:
A girl is attending her grandma's funeral, at the funeral she meets a guy, they get along and talk and have a good time. The next day the girl kills her sister. Why?

Well, even though the majority of the people who replied wrote a damn book about their thoughts of having "the mind of a serial killer" instead of just answering the damn question, I am gonna give it a shot for the hell of it.

I am guessing either the girl is a serial killer (who killed her grandmother), or her sister was the one who killed her grandmother.
The guy was the grandpa telling the girl her sister killed her grandma
OH lol thats easy if she kills her sister then shell find him again and get his number
In response to Strawgate
1. Spend many years becoming a great voice imitator (hey, you're an obsessive compulsive).
2. Befriend your victim.
3. Steal their contact book/etc.
4. Invite victim on holiday to Indonesia.
5. Contact all victim's relatives via phone, in victim's voice, telling them that you were going to live in Prague.
6. Take them in Indonesia.
7. Every night you stay there, slip in native dirty water into their body, through food, drink, be creative.
8. When they are weak, smother them with a pillow until dead.
9. Drain the body of blood into the nearby river at night.
10. Mutilate the body until it is unrecognisable- cut face up, pull out all teeth, pluck eyes out.
11. Cut the body up into small chunks.
12. Dump into the rivers at night/send on a float out into the Pacific Ocean.
13. Move to a different country and live.

Job done.


OR you could do the whole hating the eagle eye/cataract thing, then every night, look in to the old man's room with a lantern...you know the story.
In response to Elation
i forget the name of the guy that did this, but i thought it was creative to cut the body into small pieces and put the pieces into separate chunks of concrete. he killed 17 prostitutes while living in his mother's house, and she didn't know.

step #2 is probably the demise of the plan. it seems like the serial killers that kill the most people target people they dont know.
In response to OneFishDown
OneFishDown wrote:
step #2 is probably the demise of the plan. it seems like the serial killers that kill the most people target people they dont know.

These serial killers are n00bs.

You must know thine enemy.
In response to Elation
Elation wrote:
You must know thine enemy.

that worked well for scott peterson =P
In response to OneFishDown
OneFishDown wrote:
Elation wrote:
You must know thine enemy.

that worked well for scott peterson =P

Scott Peterson?

Whom is that?
In response to Elation
Please tell me you're joking...
In response to Airjoe
...?

Huh?
In response to Elation
Why do you bother making their death look like a natural death if you're going to go through such insane lengths (which will almost guarantee you get caught, anyway) to dispose of the body?
In response to Hedgemistress
Hedgemistress wrote:
Why do you bother making their death look like a natural death if you're going to go through such insane lengths (which will almost guarantee you get caught, anyway) to dispose of the body?


Because I'm insane. I follow my own logic.
In response to Elation
Ah yes, the logic of no logic. Very zen, grasshopper.

If you want some real-world insight on killing, do a Google for hitmen. I rather think The Iceman was a pretty nasty guy. His real name is Richard Kuklinski and he was undoubtedly one of the best. Read up on his pastime with nasal sprays.

~X
In response to Elation
He killed his wife and her baby in california, then dumped the bodies out to sea. If you don't live in america, you probably wouldn't know. He just got sentenced I believe to death.
In response to Kunark
Kunark wrote:
He killed his wife and her baby in california, then dumped the bodies out to sea. If you don't live in america, you probably wouldn't know. He just got sentenced I believe to death.

What a nasty man. No, I'm non-American so I wouldn't know.

But in England we get our fair share of psycho killings.
How that one guy got hired as a caretaker for a school...
In response to Xooxer
We're lucky most intelligent people don't have the will to murder. If every murderer were intellectual, the cops would have one helluva new job to do.
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