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Post by rmarks1 on Sept 15, 2018 9:51:08 GMT -5
Bob
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Post by raybar on Sept 15, 2018 10:31:19 GMT -5
You would think that someone who has thought about killing her husband enough to write "How To Kill Your Husband" would have had a foolproof plan for getting away with it (assuming she's guilty).
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Post by rmarks1 on Sept 15, 2018 13:02:33 GMT -5
You would think that someone who has thought about killing her husband enough to write "How To Kill Your Husband" would have had a foolproof plan for getting away with it (assuming she's guilty).
You would also think that they wouldn't be dumb enough to write a book, "How to Kill Your Husband", and publish it first.
Reminds me of an old movie called "The Gazebo."
Bob
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Post by faskew on Sept 16, 2018 7:03:17 GMT -5
I don't get it. It's not that difficult to kill someone and not be caught. For example, there are several poisons available that routine autopsies don't look for and many places that don't have good resources to check deaths. In Texas the county coroner is an elected position and doesn't even have to be a doctor. In many rural counties the coroner calls in a general practitioner to declare cause of death. If they have one. Doctors tend to move to the cities, where the money is, and rural counties are losing their GPs. If you wanted to kill a spouse, you could take a vacation out to one of these counties and give the victim one of the rare (but easy to get) poisons. Very likely there would not be a good investigation by the county sheriff. Keep in mind that toxicology tests, DNA tests, etc. are all sent somewhere else and cost a lot of money. Many places don't have the funds to run every possible test, so they just hit the high points and call it a day. And if someone is just passing through and doesn't kill a local, the sheriff doesn't have any strong incentive to spend time and resources on them unless it's clearly a murder.
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Post by rmarks1 on Sept 16, 2018 22:24:30 GMT -5
I don't get it. It's not that difficult to kill someone and not be caught. For example, there are several poisons available that routine autopsies don't look for and many places that don't have good resources to check deaths. In Texas the county coroner is an elected position and doesn't even have to be a doctor. In many rural counties the coroner calls in a general practitioner to declare cause of death. If they have one. Doctors tend to move to the cities, where the money is, and rural counties are losing their GPs. If you wanted to kill a spouse, you could take a vacation out to one of these counties and give the victim one of the rare (but easy to get) poisons. Very likely there would not be a good investigation by the county sheriff. Keep in mind that toxicology tests, DNA tests, etc. are all sent somewhere else and cost a lot of money. Many places don't have the funds to run every possible test, so they just hit the high points and call it a day. And if someone is just passing through and doesn't kill a local, the sheriff doesn't have any strong incentive to spend time and resources on them unless it's clearly a murder.
They lived in Portland, Oregon. Not exactly a small town. Besides, the wife didn't seem too bright to begin with. Killing your husband AFTER to publish a book titled "How to kill you husband?" She might as well have titled it "Hey, I did it! Come and get me!"
Bob
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Post by faskew on Sept 17, 2018 8:45:55 GMT -5
Did she use the same method she described in her book, I wonder. Even more stupid, if she did.
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Post by raybar on Sept 17, 2018 9:01:51 GMT -5
Best "kill your husband" story I've heard. Probably fictitious, but I hope it's real.
A woman beat her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb (or something). When the police came to speak to her, it was in the oven. So, says she, "Why don't you boys stay for dinner?" And she fed them the murder weapon.
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Post by rmarks1 on Sept 19, 2018 0:37:12 GMT -5
Best "kill your husband" story I've heard. Probably fictitious, but I hope it's real. A woman beat her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb (or something). When the police came to speak to her, it was in the oven. So, says she, "Why don't you boys stay for dinner?" And she fed them the murder weapon.
That was an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents." Braodcast in 1958. The script was by Roald Dhal. Dhal refused to give permission to use his story unless Hitchcock himself directed the production. This was the only episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" that was actually directed by Hitchcock. Barbara Bel-Gedes played the murderous wife.
Bob
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Post by raybar on Sept 19, 2018 10:19:31 GMT -5
Roald Dahl. So now I guess I need to watch "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 13:04:05 GMT -5
Roald Dahl. So now I guess I need to watch "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." My favorite is "The Witches." |
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