(April 28, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Beccs Wrote:(April 28, 2015 at 2:59 pm)Chuck Wrote: Which reminds me. In the 60s, British police unearthed the well preserved body of a woman from a bog. A man living near by whose wife had been missing for a few years broke down at the news and confessed to killing his wife and dumping her body in the swamp.
Shortly afterwards Radiocarbon dating shows the body from the bog was 2000 years old.
I guess the guilty doth flee when no men pursueth.
I love reading stories like that.
Now, of course, bog bodies are a well known fact.
Yes. It explains why, in the law (in the U.S., at least), it is best to keep your mouth shut and only speak with your lawyer. "Never confess" is a practical motto.
Of course, for the truly practical, one tends to avoid murder as much as reasonably possible, as it is a crime that, I think, in most places, has no statute of limitations, and they are always coming up with new technology to access the evidence that has been gathered. Some people have been convicted based on DNA evidence, even though there was no DNA testing when the crime was committed. One can avoid a lot of problems by not committing such crimes.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
