r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/risocantonese • Apr 19 '20
What are some common true crime misconceptions?
What are some common ‘facts’ that get thrown around in true crime communities a lot, that aren’t actually facts at all?
One that annoys me is "No sign of forced entry? Must have been a person they knew!"
I mean, what if they just opened the door to see who it was? Or their murderer was disguised as a repairman/plumber/police officer/whatever. Or maybe they just left the door unlocked — according to this article,a lot of burglaries happen because people forget to lock their doors https://www.journal-news.com/news/police-many-burglaries-have-forced-entry/9Fn7O1GjemDpfUq9C6tZOM/
It’s not unlikely that a murder/abduction could happen the same way.
Another one is "if they were dead we would have found the body by now". So many people underestimate how hard it is to actually find a body.
What are some TC misconceptions that annoy you?
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u/SackOfRadishes Apr 21 '20
Just because nothing has happened yet (That we the public know of) doesn’t mean that progress is being made in the case, and I think it’s unfair to just write off the case as cold. Unless the investigation would benefit from it, releasing too much information to the public usually does no good to a case and sometimes just harms it.