Funny story, (Funny might not be the right word) there actually was a killer who murdered his girlfriend because she was pregnant and didn't want an abortion.

In order to cover for this, he found out exactly how long it'd take to get to her house and back, recorded him playing GTA for that long.

He was found out because cameras on the street found him walking near her house, during the "live" event.

There were also bugs in the stream where the message "Time to die" showed up (in the context of an "ad" for a James Bond film), which were just his little way of bragging about his crime, like he was the Riddler or something.

He did too good a job with his timing, because the "glitch" happened pretty much exactly at the time of death.

I've seen enough of these "Perfect Murder Fails" go wrong, and it's usually people who think they're more clever than they really are pretty much giving all the evidence to the police.

I know of another where a film maker rented an old house, made it look like a stereotypical serial killer's lair, filmed part of a low budget horror movie on it, and then killed a guy there.

Lemme lay down some flash non-fiction written in first person to tell you how that went

"See, it looks like a murder happened here, but the brilliant part is: It's a set for a movie that I can prove I've been making! Meaning I can just not clean up after my own killing and hide in plain sight! Aaaaaand they're testing the fake blood I used because it doesn't look or smell anything like costume blood.... And I left my manifesto cleverly disguised as my script in the car that they can now search because the blood tested positive for being real blood, meaning probable cause. I'll just say it's my own blood and I wanted it to be realistic! That can salvage this! Oh right tests like that also kinda tell you who's blood it is, meaning they know it's the victms.... and my "script" describes the victim's wounds so perfectly it can't be coincidence... Wow, I'm fucked."

completelynormalthingtodo but sometimes i think about the perfect alibi for a crime and how you could pre-record a livestream with an excuse like "today i'm playing a VR game so sorry chat if i don't interact with you much this stream!" if you're feeling brave at the end say a vague "thank you all for watching, and thank you so much for all the donations, if you want it read though next time donate when i can see the chat haha" and would you look at that, thousands of witnesses saw you livestreaming at home, twitch.tv itself will confirm the exact time you went "live"

then all you'd have to do is get rid of the original file, best if you physically destroyed the disk it was on to prevent any chance of data recovery

probably has some flaws but i did think of it in the shower so don't use it to do crime

That actually played a part in it as well. Ultimately the kid was convicted because of cell phone location data. Part of the controversy was that an expert for the telephone company didn't testify at the time that the data was inaccurate.

What a strage thing for you to say, since I was at home posting on Lemmy, yet you were nowhere to be seen!!!

Brian

Mines got a twenty year trail of receipts. The stores keep mailing them to us & it’s the only way we know where he is

Just remember boys and girls, leave your phone at home when you go murder.