re: How are murders still unsolved in this day and age?

When you find the answer let me know, I have wife I need to get rid of but not pay.

The people on 48 Hours always get caught

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If a gun is used, make sure it is a dirty gun and throw it in a lake as soon as possible including any and all ammunition.

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Cell phones can be used as location trackers. Few people leave home without them and most people who know you will testify that you never leave home without it. Leave your cell phone at home during the murder.

Dissemble the gun. With your cell phone still at home, drive long distances to disperse various parts of the weapon in different locations, preferably bodies of water with loose sediment.

If you want an additional alibi, use Windows task scheduler to automate a few emails to be sent loosely around the time of the planned murder. Then buy a new computer. Either go pc to apple or vice versa to help establish the reason why. Destroy your old computer (drill through the hard drive) and discard in another city. You’ll always have internet data to show emails were sent from your home IP address, but they won’t be able to reflect that it was scheduled activities without the hard drive, even if they thought to check.

If you’re going to dump the body, dump it near people who know the victim to create false suspects. If you have access to those people, follow them and collect some items from their trash like beer cans (it has their dna on it). Plant that evidence near the body.

Well in rural town you have undertrained officers and a police force that doesn’t always have a ton of experience with major crimes. Sometimes it’s above their pay grade. They can try to call in the FBI, but the FBI has a lot of ground to cover.

Metro PD’s are over worked. They may have the resources, but just might be stretched too thin to solve everything.

And sometimes you deal with someone who is just a bit more sophisicated than your average criminal.

Not to mention all the modern political bullshite that ties up the PD’s.

I understand what the title of my thread is and I hit submit before I posted the context. It's less about how to get away with murder and more about how could this specific case be unsolved with a small town, small list of suspects with a ton of circumstantial evidence and most likely physical evidence. I believe the investigators probably had little to no experience or training to handle the case and wondered why they couldn't ask the state for help in the investigation. Maybe they did and it was the perfect murder but I doubt that.

It seems like a very solvable case but I'm not an expert.

Most things that happen in this world are a mystery. History and general goings on are often impossible to completely verify. People's memories are extremely sketchy at remembering well enough to even identify people consistently. Even eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable. Unless there is a "smoking gun" ever solving any murder is incredibly difficult, even with today's technology. It's already been said, but even DNA isn't some magic bullet. Maybe a bad sample or no sample or maybe the perpetrators don't have a sample in the system to reference.

One day someone will drink too much or get a guilty conscious and talk.

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What has been said several times in this thread is that it doesn't have to be a "perfect murder." Getting away with murder really isn't all that complicated or difficult. It isn't like CSI. It's probably more typical than not for evidence that is left behind not to tell a particular story.

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I get what you are saying and agree. But this particular case is more like the OJ Simpson case. Everyone knows who did it but he went free. I will say that I don't know if the suspect had an alibi or what. I don't know the inner details of the investigation. I think when he was arrested he didn't talk without a lawyer like most idiots do and incriminate himself. When they couldn't provide evidence, he was released without charges. I think I'm answering my own questions but still don't know why they didn't take everything from the crime scene in as evidence.

Man binge watch First 48 and you'll see how shite can EASILY not be solved.

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Man binge watch First 48 and you'll see how shite can EASILY not be solved.

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That's my point. Seems that most murders are easily solved. This wasn't a hitman or murder made to look like an accident or suicide. This was a murder by someone he knew well. He angered this person enough to torture and murder him. The suspect once was fighting with his brother. He made a snipers nest in the top of a hay barn and waited on his brother to show up. His brother stepped out and took a round to his arm before getting away. It was swept under the rug eventually.