Seems like most detective work is simply gathering enough evidence to prove that the guy who obviously did it is obviously guilty for a jury that watches/reads too many fictional murder mysteries and is therefore incredulous that the obvious guy is obviously guilty
Fictional murder mysteries are frequently pretty good with all sorts of layers to them.
By contrast, “true crime” is always like “the mystery of the girl who got murdered on a day where her ex-boyfriend can’t keep his whereabouts straight.”
Or the story of the police department that caught a serial killer of the homeless by disguising a CPR dummy as someone sacked out.
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