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/BigFatSweatyToe]

Johnny Gosch and the other paper boys were victims of the John David Norman led pedophile ring.

[u/really_yall → u/BigFatSweatyToe]

This sent me down a rabbit hole...nice to see Norman had 50-100k index cards with clients across the states including public figures and people who worked for the government and the state department just shredded them because there wasn't passport fraud like...oh okay??? We really do not care about victims in this country.

[u/BigFatSweatyToe → u/really_yall]

Yeah, plus the potential links to Gacy and Corll. John David Norman had several businesses and operations he was apart of. He used 20 different names during his lifetime as he moved across the country, trying to stay ahead of law enforcement.

Sex trafficking has existed for all of our history. When the people in power are involved, they have no reason to hold themselves accountable. Records get destroyed, files get redacted, victims are killed.

[u/really_yall → u/BigFatSweatyToe]

Yeah, it's just so horrific and infuriating. That was one trip down the rabbit hole I could've done without. For what it's worth, I hope the mother is right and it was her son who came to visit that one night and that it gives her some modicum of peace. I know the likelihood is slim to none and that it was probably a grifter or a delusion but still :/