I’ve heard entrapment allegations when it comes to many supposed terrorist cells post-9-11
I've seen a few articles on that - I remember reading one about a teenager (possibly a teenage couple?) which is even more appalling in retrospect because teenagers are suggestible and prone to exaggeration/dramatics even when they're not talking with an undercover investigator trained to get them to incriminate themselves - and it was definitely something I had in mind when I was reading, and later thinking about, Bharara's account of this case. From what I understand, though, the guy already had a group of co-conspirators from the website with whom he discussed specific ways of killing specific women and had used his resources/authority as a police officer to gather information on the women in question, even before the undercover investigator got involved. Plus, they were planning on a longer investigation in the first place but cut it short when it looked like he was at risk of actually harming someone? Idk... it's definitely a complicated issue.
a minor mystery writer, arrested for the murder of her spouse, which mentioned she’d written an article for a writer’s magazine some years earlier titled “How To Murder Your Spouse”
1. I want to read this article 2. This was literally a Dorothy L. Sayers plot 3. How dumb can you be, to murder someone after writing an article on how to murder someone?! (I mean, don't murder people, just in general, but if you're a murder mystery author, definitely don't murder people!)
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Date: 2019-07-31 10:55 pm (UTC)I've seen a few articles on that - I remember reading one about a teenager (possibly a teenage couple?) which is even more appalling in retrospect because teenagers are suggestible and prone to exaggeration/dramatics even when they're not talking with an undercover investigator trained to get them to incriminate themselves - and it was definitely something I had in mind when I was reading, and later thinking about, Bharara's account of this case. From what I understand, though, the guy already had a group of co-conspirators from the website with whom he discussed specific ways of killing specific women and had used his resources/authority as a police officer to gather information on the women in question, even before the undercover investigator got involved. Plus, they were planning on a longer investigation in the first place but cut it short when it looked like he was at risk of actually harming someone? Idk... it's definitely a complicated issue.
a minor mystery writer, arrested for the murder of her spouse, which mentioned she’d written an article for a writer’s magazine some years earlier titled “How To Murder Your Spouse”
1. I want to read this article
2. This was literally a Dorothy L. Sayers plot
3. How dumb can you be, to murder someone after writing an article on how to murder someone?! (I mean, don't murder people, just in general, but if you're a murder mystery author, definitely don't murder people!)