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Well, people literally get away with murder every single day. Nationally the solve rate / clearance rate on homicide is something like 62% or 64% depending on your source. I'm actually a little surprised it is that high - I thought it was lower until I went and looked it up.

However, I would guess a lot of those are fairly easy cases with witnesses, motive/means/opportunity laid out fairly obviously by people committing crimes in passion, even people that turn themselves in, etc. I haven't been able to find any data on what the clearance/success rate is for premeditated murders - where people actually took their time and made it difficult for investigators.

I was being hypothetical. Murder is of course illegal. I believe planning one is also illegal. While I don't have daughters, I can understand how the father in this case was driven to these extreme measures. In other words, the prosecution would probably reject me as a juror in this kind of case after even just two minutes of selection/questioning.