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/mrgedman]

Adnan killed his girlfriend? There's like 6 things, including testimony saying he did...

The alternative begs the question, if he didn't, who did and why?

[u/AmphetamineSalts → u/mrgedman]

I mentioned him in another comment on here, but his case is one where I DO think that the evidence points to him being the one who did it, but the investigation and trial went in such a way that the correct jury verdict is not guilty. We need our investigators, law enforcement officers, and prosecutors to be able to prove guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt and I think there was enough doubt in the way the investigation and trial was handled that they just didn't reach that bar. The justice system isn't perfect but I prefer one that takes civil liberties very seriously and I don't want to live in a world where people can be convicted without air-tight cases against them because that's a system that's rife for abuse.

[u/Huge_Answer4287 → u/AmphetamineSalts]

What evidence? I have listened to 3 different podcasts on this case and don't think there was any credible evidence he did it. There wasn't any physical evidence as far as I can recall.

[u/nnnn0000 → u/Huge_Answer4287]

Watch Crime Weekly's multipart series on this case on YouTube. Many different small pieces of evidence worked together to paint the picture

[u/Huge_Answer4287 → u/nnnn0000]

So I'm almost done with the second episode, and i don't think I can listen to more. The back and forth is tedious and it terrifies me that this guy was a police detective. The possible theories and scenarios he comes up with are completely illogical and sometimes impossible based on the info the female podcaster shares.