They Got Away With Murder

Many murders are solved, but unfortunately many are also not and the perpetrators never face justice. Leonard Gribble's book collects together a number of these unsolved crimes, both from the UK and abroad. The book was published in 1971, so maybe there have been breakthroughs in some of these cases in the fifty odd years since... alas no, i looked up all of the cases and all remain unsolved crimes.

The variety is good, including domestic murders and suspicious deaths, at first thought to be suicide but later found to probably not be. The book is well written and and keeps you engaged with good build-up and post-crime information. The variety of crimes and settings also helps.

All these crimes took place long before DNA evidence and mass camera surveillance were things, so maybe that would have caught some of the murderers out otherwise. Truthfully though, if you have no link to the victim and no one actually witnessed you committing the crime then it is a lot easier to get away with murder than you might imagine. Or fear.