Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Dear Google: I'm Dumb. Need Kill Wife. Please Help.

There's a dude - a professor, no less - on trial for murder here in Lawrence. Recent testimony in the case has focused on the internet searches the professor performed before the murder. Keeping in mind that it's difficult to tell if these are the exact searches entered as evidence (i.e. if he used quotes or the they are the journalist's...pretty sloppy Googling if he didn't use quotes...), they are:
"how to murder someone and not get caught"
"extradition United States"
"Colorless odorless poison"
"Colorless odorless poison murder perfect"
"Murder for hire"
"The best way to kill someone"
"Eye drops murder"
The first sign that you're going to be a bad criminal? Asking the internet how to execute the perfect crime. The second sign? Searching for subtle techniques like poisoning, then killing your ex-wife with "about 28 stab wounds and slashes about her head, neck and chest." Allegedly.

4 comments:

dn said...

I was curious about the eye drops thing so I looked it up at:http://www.snopes.com/toxins/visine.asp
and found "In an episode of television's C.S.I. ("Revenge Is Best Served Cold," original air date 26 September 2002) a drink spiked (with eye drops) causes a death when the eye drops initiate a fatal reaction with chocolate the victim had eaten."

Now, I'm guessing the CSI folks solved that crime. The third sign? Trying to execute "the perfect murder" using a foiled technique from America's most popular television drama.

Anonymous said...

He probably could have just gone to his local Barnes and Noble and picked up Murder for Dummies. Let me tell you, you will definitely get correct change from the cashier when you bring that one to the register...

[-jeff.]

Bob said...
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Bob said...

Perfect murder weapon=icicle.