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How to Commit the Perfect Murder

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Documentary Log in crime
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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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posted on January 29, 2010, 07:50:02 PM
comment #3522
hghghghg

The cia would hit a guy in the temple and push a person from a balcony.
A simple tool is to simply scare witnesses.

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posted on January 23, 2010, 07:17:10 AM
comment #3431
K.O

Perfect mass murder: Becoming a politician and advocate for war. Go the human factor way not the science way.

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posted on November 23, 2009, 08:51:12 PM
comment #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.

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posted on September 29, 2009, 02:33:31 AM
comment #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.

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posted on September 24, 2009, 04:55:13 AM
comment #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.

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posted on September 20, 2009, 12:29:16 AM
comment #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

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posted on September 01, 2009, 11:03:14 PM
comment #1433
Felix Hemsted

There is a perfect weapon: ice

Ice 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)

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posted on July 18, 2009, 09:09:14 PM
comment #1155
Deanna

I agree with Will. It really isn't as complex as everyone thinks.

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posted on July 16, 2009, 09:38:31 PM
comment #1144
Lil'Carla

Is it ethically/morally correct to show the mundane population tricks on how to commit an undetecable murder?

"Jermaine McKinney [the murderer] tryed to apply what he had learned from television to the murder scene"

I don't think so.

~ Lil'Carla

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posted on July 03, 2009, 06:03:05 AM
comment #1078
Vistor

is Will a killer?

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posted on May 21, 2009, 01:20:31 AM
comment #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.

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posted on May 18, 2009, 10:09:07 AM
comment #835
Will

This documentary is bullshit.
Killing someone and getting away with it is easy.

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posted on December 02, 2008, 05:43:19 AM
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

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posted on November 26, 2008, 03:17:26 PM
comment #239
nanu

but now Shipman is dead. :)
that 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

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posted on November 15, 2008, 04:33:47 AM
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.

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posted on September 26, 2008, 09:58:46 PM
comment #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?

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posted on August 11, 2008, 04:29:50 PM
comment #80
the real guy

interesting and very intimidating at the same time, the storys gave my neck a chill

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posted on July 24, 2008, 08:49:30 PM
comment #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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