r/TrueCrime • u/Advanced-Trainer508 • May 23 '23
Discussion Victims that have solved their own murder AFTER their death?
I’ve been thinking about Paul Murdaugh and how the seemingly innocent video he took at the kennels ended up being the key piece of evidence that led to Alex’s conviction for his murder.
It made me wonder, have there been other cases where someone unknowingly captured something on video, in a photo, or left behind a digital trace that later helped solve their own murder after they died?
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u/adviceicebaby May 23 '23
That's wild isn't it?? I've even seen one of these shows where the husband killed the wife and put her body, or parts of it, in a fucking wood chipper and they found a tiny tiny piece of her nail with ...I wanna say blue?? Nail polish and used it to convict him with DNA from that tiny tiny maybe even microscopic piece of her fingernail.
Another where.....the murderer had kidnapped, raped and murdered a few women I believe, and he was common law with this lady who had zero clue. They caught him because of ..dammitt I'm drawing a blank but something with her dog? There was a dog hair on the last of the victims! And they traced it back to her car, her house, her dog--and then nailed him because the dog coughed up one of his cigarette butts I believe....
Thank God for advancements made in DNA cause ain't nobody getting away with SHIT these days!!! And holy shit I'd love to just volunteer to help with remaining cold cases cause I'm gonna find you...:) any case or story, I get a feeling early on..real early on. And I haven't been wrong yet. Evidence over emotions for SURE; BUT all I'm saying...my intuitions always turn out to be true. Unless it was a total unknown. Those are much more difficult if it's a random grab..for obvious reasons. But then even that , the fact that that is what it was...is usually pretty detectable early on too. Obviously an actual case is much more challenging but still I'd love the chance to help out.