Friday, January 4, 2013

Some criminals are unbelievably thick.


Today I watched Forensic Files; and it was ten minutes into the episode that I realized how stupid some criminals really are, and how ignorant they are of facts and means of scientific discoveries. If you're going to commit a crime, taking into perspective the modern and advanced human mind and technologies, at least cover your tracks or make an effort to hide the evidence completely. Without the idiotic moves of this killer, he would not have been tracked at all and might have gotten off scot-free; if the motive itself weren't so obvious to begin with. 
How does one murder another by blunt trauma to the back of the head, then place them under a car and expect authorities/investigators/pathologists to wave it off as a hit-and-run if there is no evidence of bruising or broken bones? It's even funnier that the criminal made an effort to produce skid-marks from a short distance behind the vehicle, so as to insinuate the driver tried to come to a sudden stop from a fast speed as soon as the figure was seen in the middle of the road. If that were the case, where were (as I mentioned) the bruising on the body to suggest the victim was even run over? Even if it were true, the victim himself would have rolled over the hood of the car with the impact of the accident, and fallen nearby or behind the vehicle itself. He would not be positioned , and so physically perfect, behind the front wheels, beneath the center of the automobile. And if you think that was stupid enough, what were the victim's items such as a jacket and pair of shoes doing stacked neatly next to the wheels? It doesn't match the fraudulent retelling of events; because that's just... wrong. One's clothing simply does not remove itself cleanly, with the contact of a car and glide across the ground in a neat pile next to the car unless the death involved a perpetrator and was premeditated/intentional. Here's another stupid move on the killer's part, who happened to be the boss of the victim and the sole beneficiary of all his insurances FUNNILY ENOUGH. He knew that the victim's remains would be sent to the funeral home where he worked for a medical autopsy, and he himself performed the task lousily; even though as a general practitioner he was not fully certified to, and failed to wait for the M.E to arrive. Instead of examining photographs, the crime scene, interviewing several people, checking for broken bones and bruising/marks, performing x-rays, along with the general protocol required to be followed for such a duty, he overlooked these things completely and named it a hit-and-run so as to quicken the process of an accidental death announcement so he could get his $980,000 pay out and disperse it among his wife (who helped him to cover his tracks, pathetically enough) and the two other conspirators involved. All men, plus the wife, were charged with premeditated murder, insurance fraud, theft (regarding the car) and withholding information from police. Had it not been for a certified forensic pathologist's application to review the cause of death once again due to the strange circumstances/nature of the crime, this idiot might have gotten away for longer than the three or so years he was spared justice. Upon the second medical examination, however, forensic pathologists found obvious wood splinters lodged in the back of the victim's skull and head. Further examination revealed that this was the sole cause of death. Where does this wood come from? There's no wood on a car. In reference to the gigantic bruise found at the back of his skull, it became obvious that the victim died of severe head trauma with a blunt object and not a result of being run over; which raised suspicion against the boss/GP who performed the first autopsy lazily, and failed to identify and note the incriminating characteristics. I'll take the time now to give kudos to the witness who saw the car parked outside the funeral director's office the night before the murder. Upon examining the car itself -which was stolen and belonged to an elderly man physically unfit for such events, let alone even an acquaintance of the victim- authorities found blood splatters on the inside of the windshield and along the chrome bar inside the passenger's door. You guessed it: the blood was an O-type and matched the victim's DNA perfectly. This fact alone contradicts the possibility of a hit and run, don't you think? Incredibly stupid, don't you think? Even if he tried to remove the blood, Luminol (a reagent used to reveal hidden blood from hemoglobin factors and gives it a bright blue appearance) would have traced it anyway. Don't these people know you should always dispose of evidence? Given the motive behind this all, the killer's identity would be obvious but it would be a highly difficult task to charge him with the absence of physical evidence. 
I can't wait to start my career as a forensic/criminal profiler.

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