Is it possible to get away with something, or will you eventually get caught?
I have considered this, also…
Seems to me (and NO, I have no intention of doing it!!!) that if you chose a total stranger, walked up to them when no one was around, killed them without witnesses, and got away without witnesses… the police would have a very hard time catching you!
It depends. If you mean “perfect” in that you’ll never be punished for your crime, then a suicide bomber might count. Of course, then you get into that whole heaven and hell kettle of fish, but that’s another story.
Of course there is. People get away with murder every day.
Although it is true that the caught to unsolved ratio for reported crimes is a bit unsettling, WRT the OP, I speed every day. Technically a crime and plenty of witnesses, sometimes even co-conspiritors, but I get away with it all the time. Same with jaywalking.
I guess I should be more specific, so I want to off someone, what is the best way to do it? A casual aquaintance, with minimal witnesses. Run like hell?
there was a movie about this…let’s see, what was that title…
A Perfect Murder, perhaps?
Hitchcock’s Rope as well.
I’m sure there is, or has been, a Perfect Crime. We’ll never know about it, however.
Why? Because it was Perfect.
I’m with Tark. The perfect murder would be one where noone realizes that the victim had been murdered. If you could make it look like an accident you’d be all set.
retsin2000, with all due respect, remember that the guys in rope got caught. Not quite the perfect murder.
I asked pretty much the same question about a year and a half ago under a previous incarnation (omniscientnot). Tried the SEARCH function using my previous handle, but couldn’t find anything. Perhaps some of the more search-savvy Dopers could give it a shot.
It’s the policy of this board to not give instructions on how to violate the law. While I think it’s a long shot that KV will actually try to kill anyone based on advice given in this thread, I’m still rather less than sanguine about this discussion, so I’m closing it.