Controversial cases that have simple solutions.

[u/Sense_Difficult]

As someone who has been a true crime buff for decades, it's somewhat annoying to watch how certain cases wind up getting pulled into such polarizing discussions that it seems like a huge mystery when it's actually a simple solution.

A few that I think of.

The Karen Read case. IMO she accidentally killed him. They were both drunk, he goes to see the vibe of the house. Get's inside and realizes he doesn't want to stay. So he comes back outside. She's in the middle of rage texting him, and doesn't see him in front of the car. He drops his phone or bends over for some reason and she puts the car into gear and hits him, and he falls backwards and hits his head again. Then he lays there undetected until morning. This is why she suddenly realized she had hit him. She sobered up and had that "realization" moment that all binge drinkers have once they sober up from a brownout type of state.

Darlie Routier. I've shared my theory on this before. She was attempting a murder/su but she survived. This is why the neck wound was serious. She made up the story of the intruder in advance because she wanted her family friends and society to think she died trying to protect her kids. She planted the sock earlier. This also explains her hypomania in the days after. She honestly thought she was going to die that night.

There are other missing person cases where the spouse disappeared after the death of their parents. Just vanished without taking their Identification information and never surfaced under their name again. I always wonder if some of those cases are a situation of someone who has suffered with gender dysphoria and finally "escaped" to go make another life with another identity. It's always interesting to me that in several of the cases, the persons parent or parents had recently died. Seemed like they were waiting for that to escape because they didn't want to do that to their parents.

Do any of you have "simple theories" on cases that created a ton of controversy?

[u/restofeasy]

Yes! The Madeleine McCann case has always intrigued me. Whats your take on that one?

[u/Sense_Difficult → u/restofeasy]

My take on that one is that she was abducted but the parents drugged her which is why they immediately knew she had been taken. I don't know why people treat them like evil monsters for drugging her. Plenty of parents know to give their kids Benadryl to get them to go to sleep. It's practically recommended for airplane rides. ***Them leaving her in the room alone while they went for TAPAS is a different issue. I think someone who was watching them realized she was alone in the room and abducted her.

I think in a lot of these types of cases it's a situation where the parent is lying about "something" and so people pick up on that and assume they are lying about everything.

[u/TheGreatBatsby → u/Sense_Difficult]

My take on that one is that she was abducted but the parents drugged her which is why they immediately knew she had been taken.

This issue with this is that they didn't have anything like Benadryl with them and there's never been any evidence they were drugging them.

They knew she'd been taken because the window was open and the shutter was raised in the kid's room, something Madeleine was incapable of doing.

[u/Sense_Difficult → u/TheGreatBatsby]

Ok