how to murder someone and get away with it theme
We are made to ponder clever ways in which one might commit murder and avoid getting caught.
Notes
This theme is not used in extraordinary circumstances, such as on a battlefield, where the opportunity might present itself through mere chance.
104 total · 71 choice · 27 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh3x07 | choice | John McGregor indirectly killed his good-for-nothing wife by leaving her at the doorstep of two other men who he knew would do the job. |
| ahp1x27 | choice | Mr. X hatched a seemingly foolproof plot to have Mr. Crabtree knockoff Mr. X's blackmailer. |
| ahp2x04 | choice | Fitzhugh and Katherine plotted elaborately for the demise of Mr. Jorgy. |
| ahp2x07 | choice | Georgie figured he just needed a solid alibi in order to knock off Lucky Moore. |
| ahp2x20 | choice | Carl took out his with arsenic-laced coffee in such a manner that led everyone to conclude that it was her who'd tried to poison him. |
| ahp2x30 | choice | Ernest and Lalage spent weeks preparing every detail of how Ernst would knock off his wife. |
| ahp5x01 | choice | The story follows Arthur as he narrates to the viewer how he got away with murdering his his ex-fiancée by the simple expedient of feeding her dead body to his chickens. |
| columbo1971e0x01 | choice | Psychiatrist Dr. Ray Flemming murdered his wife with the help of his mistress and made it look as if the victim had been strangled by a burglar. He would have gotten away with her crime had it not been for the meddlesome Lt. Columbo. |
| columbo1971e0x02 | choice | The brilliant lawyer Leslie Williams shot her husband dead and made it look as if he had been kidnapped, and later killed by the kidnappers. She would have gotten away with her crime had it not been for the meddlesome Lt. Columbo. |
| columbo1971e10x01 | choice | The fraternity brothers Justin Rowe and Cooper Redman hatched the following scheme to knock off their professor before he exposed them as the cheaters: They arranged to shoot him in the head using a remote controlled gun while attending a lecture, thus securing an seemingly ironclad alibi. One gathers that they would have gotten away with their crime had the guest lecturer not been the tenacious Lt. Columbo. |