perfect murders

sadhuji

Each one of us, at some point of time or another, has contemplated murder.

It could be the murder of a friend, a teacher, a relative or even someone as remotely connected as a player or an actor or a politician. Just as we love life, we also love death – in specific cases! In each of us there resides a Mr. Hyde – the evil half. Robert Louis Stevenson had given a vivid description of the evil that lives in each of us – earlier; our own scriptures had shown the same streak in Ravana, who had the audacity to lift Sita resulting in his ultimate destruction.

How does one go about carrying out the perfect murder?
I do not mean murders that have the sanction of society like the ones involving the Police (that go by the euphemism of ‘encounter deaths’) or murders committed by the military personnel where National honour is at stake or the death by hanging since the hangman is carrying out the dictates of the Court.

Writers of some crime stories have the ability to describe murders in great detail – as if they have committed any number of murders before picking up the pen to chronicle the events step by step. Perfect murders involve meticulous planning in the initial stages followed by careful implementation and then the cleaning up.

Like the story in which a woman murders her husband with a frozen chunk of a lamb’s leg. Then she calls up the local Police station to report the death. The Police arrive immediately and, as the investigation progresses; she cooks the lamb’s leg and serves dinner to the investigating Officers who are still trying to locate the murder weapon.

Or take the case of the murderer making mincemeat of the dead body of the victim and feeding the pieces to his chicken. Subsequently, he would sell all the eggs as well as the chicken with a specific clause that the eggshells and the bones are returned back to him. These he would once again pass through the grinder and feed to his next batch of chickens. He continued the complete process for several cycles and, when the law finally caught up with him, he welcomed them with outstretched arms and challenged them to find any trace of the missing person on his farm.

So much so for fantasies - but, when it actually comes to carrying out the actions, I wonder how many would know where to get hold of a knife or how to fire a pistol. And – of course, the perpetrator of the crime must never return to the scene of crime and must also take precautions to ensure that he does not leave back any obvious clues like cigarette stubs or handkerchief with his initials embroidered on it or lipstick stains on the cup or glass, if the murderer is a woman.

A perfect murder must ensure that the murderer has a perfect alibi.
Once upon a time, the great American lawyer-cum-sleuth Perry Mason in conjunction with his attractive assistant Della Street would tear the alibis to pieces by rigorous cross-examination in the courtroom. Those were actual court room dramas – unlike the immature versions that we are treated to in our films. In today’s world, proving alibis must be quite easy by virtue of mobile phones. Apparently, the location of any mobile phone can be tracked down at any point of time! So, if the culprit left his mobile with an accomplice and the accomplice kept sending out messages while the murder was being committed, the murderer could prove that he was in fact in a different location when the victim was breathing his last!!

Of course, it may not be as simple as that but it is just a thought …
By the way, why doesn’t some Indian give us crime thrillers like Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘the Rope’. We had a Belgian like Hercule Poirot, an Englishman like Sherlock Holmes – no appropriate Indian counterpart, critics may say!! Let us hope, the present generation of film writers can churn out some real creative stuff.

There is no dearth of plots!!

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Krishnika

This is also one of the subjects of Hitchcock's fantastic movie - Suspicion.