How to Commit the Perfect Murder
Modern forensic science should make it impossible to commit murder and get away with it. But how easy would it be to outfox the detectives? With the help of top forensic scientists, and real-life murder investigations, we explore whether it's possible to commit a perfect murder.
The body is the most important piece of evidence in any murder. Pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd reveals the crucial clues that give away the secrets of a suspicious death. Dr Lee Goff can work out a time of death from just a few maggots on a corpse. To really understand the way a human decomposes he relies on experiments - and dead pigs make ideal human models.
And what is the perfect murder weapon? Probably Agatha Christie's favourite - poison. It leaves no marks on the body, and the victim may not even realise what has happened until it's too late. But there still might not be a perfect murder. The world's most notorious poisoner - Harold Shipman - was eventually caught.
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comment #3522 hghghghg
The cia would hit a guy in the temple and push a person from a balcony.
reply | permalinkA simple tool is to simply scare witnesses.
comment #3431 K.O
Perfect mass murder: Becoming a politician and advocate for war. Go the human factor way not the science way.
reply | permalinkcomment #2457 Ash
Just because you get away with a murder, it doesn't mean it was perfect. There are a whole host of reasons why a murder may go unsolved that have little to do with the quality of the murder itself. Most of these people aren't caught because of plain dumb luck.
reply | permalinkcomment #1748 Oscar
to all the idots who speak about how easy it is to kill someone and get away with it, i would like you to consider FUTURE technologies. how many cold cases from pre-DNA days have been solved. Getting away with murder means living a full lengthy life without ever being caught ( as for guilty conscience, that is another story), think about neural mind reading being projected into digital image by a suspects brain or even a victims. not as easy as you may think.
reply | permalinkcomment #1684 Egare
This is a reply to comment #1155
Deanna is right. I imagine that there are more than a few who have done this, and more than once, walking around not only unapprehended but unsuspected if they are very sick and very patient and willing to wait for their victims.
reply | permalinkcomment #1627 allisson
This is a reply to comment #1433
thats somthing i thought about a long time ago while watching some csi type show. I thought it was a crazy idea, but now thinking about it its actually plausible. Now i feel weird talking about it. AHHHHH
reply | permalinkcomment #1433 Felix Hemsted
There is a perfect weapon: ice
reply | permalinkIce can be formed into a dagger-like weapon which can hold it's shape when someone is stabbed in someone. Also, it is the perfect weapon because it melts and therefore gets rid of your fingerprints and the weapon (unless you touched the victim)
comment #1155 Deanna
I agree with Will. It really isn't as complex as everyone thinks.
reply | permalinkcomment #1144 Lil'Carla
Is it ethically/morally correct to show the mundane population tricks on how to commit an undetecable murder?
reply | permalink"Jermaine McKinney [the murderer] tryed to apply what he had learned from television to the murder scene"
I don't think so.
~ Lil'Carla
comment #1078 Vistor
is Will a killer?
reply | permalinkcomment #843 spacebunny
Will's right. There are PLENTY of unsolved murders and the perpetrators aren't geniuses. It doesn't take all that forethought and planning. I wouldn't worry about witnesses because hardly anybody pays attention in detail to what goes on around them most of the time. I find it nothing short of a miracle when they find missing children or criminal suspects. To me, all kids look the same, and all 25 year old 5'9" black, white, or latino males look the same.
reply | permalinkcomment #835 Will
This documentary is bullshit.
reply | permalinkKilling someone and getting away with it is easy.
comment #259 the student
this helped me imensely in my sociology project on the perfect murder it is great that such resources can found on the web without paying
reply | permalinkcomment #239 nanu
but now Shipman is dead. :)
reply | permalinkthat is really cool now more and more people will try to be the best serial killers.
and who is the best serial killers ?
you just don't know because the best serial killers is the man that you'll never hear about. ;]
peace ! ;d
comment #213 paul
People have already commited the perfect murders. Serial killers like Neilson, Shipman - ect would of got away with killing. It was only down to greed that got them caught. If Shipman only killed a handful of people he'd of never got caught.
reply | permalinkcomment #164 Morte Cerebrale
Intellectually stimulating whilst nauseatingly macabre. Apropos of the part about body disposal, anybody else thinking of the closing part of the film Fargo involving Peter Stormare and a wood-chipper?
reply | permalinkcomment #80 the real guy
interesting and very intimidating at the same time, the storys gave my neck a chill
reply | permalinkcomment #54 the guy
that is really cool, im going to go and kill hundreds of people now! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! anyway, seriously, thats really interesting.
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