A thought after yet another detective TV show in which an
almost impossible preponderance of circumstantial evidence tells you despite
all of it, this is not the criminal because it is just too early in the
broadcast:
OK, here is the exercise: Quickly, ignoring random violence or something that happened
in the commission of another crime (say, robbery), if you, yourself, were found
murdered, who would the prime suspect be?
Don't think it through, you probably already have the answer. Who was the first person who came to
mind?
Now turn it around.
In whose murder would you be the prime suspect?
Most of us live lives much less dramatic than a television
detective show, so answers might not come very easily. I had a quick answer for one of them,
but not the other and don't expect it to be revealed. After all, neither of us might have a
provable alibi in case something were ever to happen to the other and saying it
here might end up being part of that circumstantial evidence.
All sitcoms tonight.
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