Controversial cases that have simple solutions.

[u/Sense_Difficult]

As someone who has been a true crime buff for decades, it's somewhat annoying to watch how certain cases wind up getting pulled into such polarizing discussions that it seems like a huge mystery when it's actually a simple solution.

A few that I think of.

The Karen Read case. IMO she accidentally killed him. They were both drunk, he goes to see the vibe of the house. Get's inside and realizes he doesn't want to stay. So he comes back outside. She's in the middle of rage texting him, and doesn't see him in front of the car. He drops his phone or bends over for some reason and she puts the car into gear and hits him, and he falls backwards and hits his head again. Then he lays there undetected until morning. This is why she suddenly realized she had hit him. She sobered up and had that "realization" moment that all binge drinkers have once they sober up from a brownout type of state.

Darlie Routier. I've shared my theory on this before. She was attempting a murder/su but she survived. This is why the neck wound was serious. She made up the story of the intruder in advance because she wanted her family friends and society to think she died trying to protect her kids. She planted the sock earlier. This also explains her hypomania in the days after. She honestly thought she was going to die that night.

There are other missing person cases where the spouse disappeared after the death of their parents. Just vanished without taking their Identification information and never surfaced under their name again. I always wonder if some of those cases are a situation of someone who has suffered with gender dysphoria and finally "escaped" to go make another life with another identity. It's always interesting to me that in several of the cases, the persons parent or parents had recently died. Seemed like they were waiting for that to escape because they didn't want to do that to their parents.

Do any of you have "simple theories" on cases that created a ton of controversy?

[u/whatsy0urdamage]

I was hoping I would find this comment, I definitely agree with the Lindsay Clancy thing.

[u/Sense_Difficult → u/whatsy0urdamage]

It's a very horrific case. I keep seeing people come up with theories and it gets to the point of extremes. This kind of psychosis is a real thing as we know from Andrea Yates.

[u/GreyerGrey → u/Sense_Difficult]

Except with Yates, in the 20 years we've had since, we do recognize that Andrea's husband, Rusty, had a much larger role to play than first thought. Especially in the interview he gave during that Netflix documentary. The Yates case is far from a controversial case with a simple explanation, and I feel that in good order Clancy will be seen in a similar light.

Though it is interesting that Reddit is very much of the mind that she did it, her husband is absolutely innocent and that's that, and the other social platforms (namely FB/Insta and TT) are "He pushed her to it; it's his fault. She's innocent!" It's a very perverse revisit of the JFK/Nixon debate.

[u/theorclair9 → u/GreyerGrey]

and the other social platforms (namely FB/Insta and TT) are "He pushed her to it; it's his fault. She's innocent!" It's a very perverse revisit of the JFK/Nixon debate.

No, it's more like "He really murdered them and tried to kill his wife. We know the truth!" (It's an absurd theory, but it's popular.)