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He may have been able to get away with murdering his pregnant wife- but there's no way he would have been able to kill her, the unborn baby, and his two young daughters. Crimes like that, just don't go unsolved. There's too much media pressure and scrutiny on the police force and the DA fir the case to go unsolved for very long.
Debatable. He could have quashed the media attention by not going on TV, saying he wanted time and space to grieve. Suggest she ran off, then dont talk to the cops without a lawyer. They might suspect him but without a confession or the bodies they cant charge him. And they couldnt find the bodies without his help. I know it seems obvious that he did it but most murderers only get caught because they are dumb or have a guilty conscience.
I dont even know about that. If you’re going through a messy separation, which they were, you will always be suspect number 1
I have to disagree with that at least for the Watts case. He was fucked. It was only two days from the disappearance to his arrest because he decided to talk to the police and take a polygraph and tank any presumption of innocence. The police didnt even have a chance to use all of the resources they had because he broke immediately. They knew he was loading his truck backed into the garage where his family supposedly was early in the morning, and then him leaving alone. Given more time they would have put the pieces together. Ive seen other cases where people's cell phones are constantly pinging cell phone towers, and they use that data to catch people in a lie about where they were. There are just too many cameras, gps data, etc. anymore to be able to kill somebody that you have a personal relationship with.
Torque... nothing. It’s fine.
You're underestimating how lenient the legal system is. If police can't find the body and you don't confess, you have a good shot of walking. He was suspicious obviously but you need more than the surveilance of him maybe loading something in the truck. If police/forensics kept at it, sure, they could have recovered her body eventually. But they don't dedicate that many resources if they have no leads, and as far as they knew she could be anywhere within 50 miles. I think we give PDs too much credit. They give up easily.
I'm think you're getting trapped by conditional logic. That's convictions given that the case goes to trial. Given that you are on trial, yet without a body, there must already be some damning evidence. I'm making the assumption that there isn't such evidence which I believe includes this one.
