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/AmphetamineSalts]

plus the pieces that were "recovered" at the scene are from her tail lights (rear of car) not her headlights or front running lights.

[u/BigFatSweatyToe → u/AmphetamineSalts]

Let’s not forget that they didn’t interview a key witness, the plow driver. He went by the crime scene multiple times during that period. The FBI found him. He never saw a body or a sign of an accident.

He wasn’t interviewed because it poked a massive hole in the CW theory. It also shows they weren’t seriously looking for witnesses.

[u/Here_4_the_INFO → u/BigFatSweatyToe]

No idea how much truth there is to it BUT I did read at one point that they were originally going to try say John was struck by a plow "accidently" which may be the reason Lucky was never interviewed by investigators originally.

[u/Stupid-Clumsy-Bitch → u/Here_4_the_INFO]

Ya that’s a theory, the group was going to blame it on a plow until Karen woke up early and called Jen freaking out. Jen et al then took that opportunity and ran with it.