True Crime - Cases that Interest Me

There are certainly a lot of people who are fans of true crime.  So many cases to look at and study.  It is of interest to me as well - however  there are only 5 cases that I spent a lot of time studying.   These are cases I've spent hours and hours studying.  What I enjoy doing is trying to put all the pieces together.  No matter what happened in real life in terms of the legal outcomes,  I try to make all the details of a crime fit so that I can come up with a sensible rationale as to what happened.   Having said that - here are the 5 cases I studied.  In each I will post my conclusion:

1. Pamela Smart

Conclusion:  She manipulated that young boy into murdering her husband.  She denies it but I don't believe her.  Only question in that case is whether her punishment (life without parole) is too severe.  IMO,  yes it is.

2. OJ Simpson

Conclusion:  He killed Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown and he killed them by himself.   No one else was involved.

3. JFK Assassination

Conclusion:  Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK and no one else was involved in the actual shooting of JFK.  There was no conspiracy and Jack Ruby was nothing more than an out of his mind idiot who lost his cool.

4. The Menendez Brothers

Conclusion:  They killed their parents because the parents were about to cut them out of the will.   Although I have no doubt that their father was rough on them - I don't believe for one second that he sexually abused them.  You can think whatever you want about Jose Menendez but you must give credit where credit is due.  Jose rose to the top and became a millionaire all on his own.   Completely self made.  In order to accomplish that you've got to be someone special and incredibly driven.    I think he held himself to standards of excellence.   He tried to apply those standards on his sons but they just weren't up for it.   So, yes, he pushed them, he was rough on them, but I don't believe he touched them.  They just wanted to get their hands on the money before it was too late.

5. JonBenet Ramsey

Conclusion:  I don't have one.  This remains an unsolved case and I think there is a good reason why.  No matter which way you go with it - you can't make all the pieces fit perfectly.  In any theory you come up with, there are gaps.  So, no conclusion on this one.


I'm sure there are a lot of other people who are interested in these cases, I'd love to hear some viewpoints......

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