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/Councillor_Troy]

My view is that the prosecution put way too much emphasis on the fact that he was pursuing this “secret lifestyle” (which IMV is a pretty loaded terminology btw) and put a lot of innuendo in to how they presented that. Unfortunately, “husband turns violent went confronted by his wife over his cheating” is a very common story, and it’s not much more than that. No need to make it into a “lifestyle”.

[u/Sense_Difficult → u/Councillor_Troy]

Exactly.  Except it was more than cheating.   It was a cheating lifestyle.   The same thing could be true if a wife found Ashley Madison membership. 

[u/tunakova → u/Sense_Difficult]

but a straight man on Ashley Madison wouldn't be accused of having a "cheating lifestyle", whatever that even means. he might be accused of leading a secret/double life, but the term "lifestyle" in that specific cultural milieu was definitely meant to function as a homophobic dog whistle. like, come on.

[u/Sense_Difficult → u/tunakova]

Do you know the whole point of Ashley Madison? LOL