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Why do people keep trying?


Shows like this, and others, like CSI, should convince people that you can't get away with murder. So why do they keep doing it?

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Greed and stupidity.
It astounds me how many times someone is murdered for money and how soon the idiots try to collect on the life insurance.
Was it Forensic Files where the grieving wife called the insurance company from the funeral home?

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Was it Forensic Files where the grieving wife called the insurance company from the funeral home?

Yup. Then there was that guy who cancelled his appointment with the marriage counselor right before killing his wife.

Just watched the episode "Mistaken Identity". Some guy manages to successfully fake his death (after killing someone that looks like himself) gets a new passport, real ID, etc. He gets questioned by the police and they find a book called "HOW TO CHANGE YOUR IDENTITY" in his belongings. Mind-boggling.

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I'd love to see you in the moonlight with your head thrown back and your body on fire.

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That's as bad as the guys who leave things in their Internet browsing history, like searches for methods for killing people and hiding the evidence. That seems like a pretty easy one. I mean, it's a completely different story if they have to scan your hard drive and recover deleted files or something, but this is just a simple setting.

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I blame autocorrect.

You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.

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Was it Forensic Files where the grieving wife called the insurance company from the funeral home?


Was that the Lynn Turner case? That was on today where she killed both of her husbands with anti-freeze and tried to cash in on their insurance policies.

This program on her must be old because when it ended they didn't mention that she committed suicide in jail. They said she was still serving out her sentence. Nope, she is dead.

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Because they do get away with it, studies reflect a third of homicides go unsolved. Their just isn't as many shows about the homicides that go unsolved. For the people that have or would kill, these shows aren't a deterrent, they're a how to guide. It teaches offenders the mistakes that will get them convicted, all of the "what not to do" tips.

A better question is, "Why do they train sociopaths to be better criminals?".

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They've even had episodes where the murderer got the idea from a previous episode of the same show.

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I'm just expressing my opinion.

You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.

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Because they do get away with it, studies reflect a third of homicides go unsolved. Their just isn't as many shows about the homicides that go unsolved.
True but it's still really risky and very stressful. Covering all your tracks etc. I am way too lazy to go through all that plus having to worry the rest of their lives if now technology comes out. Last night they solved a murder from 25 years prior.

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Because even the bad cops, who should be trained in all this, slip up too. How many episodes in this series are cops who think they can outsmart their fellow law enforcement. They even had an episode where the town's head coroner himself killed his wife and still missed covering some part of his tracks and got nabbed.

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Many criminals think they are so smart and everyone else is incredibly stupid. I also think many criminals are drug addicts and/or mentally ill.

I once heard a convict say a cop could mess up a hundred times and maybe still solve a case, but all it takes is one slip up to send a criminal to prison. He was absolutely right.

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Some of the murderers are not planned, and are heat of the moment crimes. These are usually the sloppier ones. They aren't thinking as much on what to do and not do.

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