I disagree. There are many, many murders where the murderer is leading the charge to “find” the murderer and/or “find” the body. Think, e.g., of the many victims of domestic violence where the guilty partner is the first to call 911 to report them missing, is the first to make tearful pleas for their partner’s return, is on the frontline of searches and, often, is the one who locates the body. Throughout these situations, police do not advertise that the spouse is a clear suspect. But I’m sure the spouse is a main suspect from the start. Bottom line: we have no real idea what the police know or don’t know in this case, or when they knew it, or who they suspect, and neither does the family. MOO.
I agree about the level of deceptiveness you describe. I've followed true crime a lot, for a long time, all of that is very familiar -
I was addressing specifically the theory that someone would elaborately stage a murder-suicide, only to immediately insist, in public, that it couldn't possibly be the way it was staged. As a strategy to 'outsmart' police.
A (real) psychopath stages a loved one(s) disappearance, then they insist "oh no, they disappeared, where are they?".
But do they stage a disappearance, and then (cleverly) insist to police that the victims would never disappear, someone must have murdered them?
Clever Chris Watts tells police: 'my wife would never leave with the children like that, without telling me - they must have been abducted from our home in a vehicle, since her car is still here - I'm going to hire a team of PIs to prove it.' ?
Or, they hire someone to stage the murder as a break-in, and have the alibi of being in a far distant location. Do they then insist 'this was not a break-in'?
Clever Mark Sievers "Police are idiots if they believe a thief got in that flimsy side door with a hammer, and killed my wife because she unexpectedly came home. That's ridiculous, I'm going to hire a team of PI's to prove it was some kind of targetted plot against her. And by the way, my alibi isn't very secure, I can't prove I was actually thousands of miles away.' ?
The victim is staged as having apparently drowned in a bathtub. Perpetrator-husband, trying to outsmart police, insists his wife never took baths, she was a shower-type of girl. ?
Hopefully, I have now explained my objections more clearly.
I've never seen a case where a crime scene was staged, only to have the perp then implicate themselves by denying the staging. However, if there are examples out there, I'd love to learn about them.
JMO
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