“What I was posting earlier was that some statistical anomalies caught some criminologists eye and the postulated that a serial killer or killers might be using this method of death by misadventure to cover for their giving intoxicated pedestrians a hard shove into rivers to likely drown.”
The perfect murder, for murders sake.
There’s no CCTV, witnesses passers by... plus all of his contents were in his pockets so the only logical summation they can come up with, without a bruise or some other forensic discovery, is that he simply fell into the water while very intoxicated.
Occam’s razor. However, beginning in the 20th century, logic, pragmatism, and especially probability theory have become more popular among investigators.
In this particular case the forensics forced a focused hypothesis based on probability theory. In the event it was a sophomoric prank gone wrong, a guilt ridden conscience could produce a confession or an eyewitness to come forward at some point in the future.
should be “ bodies of water”
these male victims have been found
in harbors creeks and bays.
He was seen on a few cameras along the street and on a policeman’s body cam. He was VERY intoxicated. He fell once and slammed his head into a streetlight pole. He got up but that head bang certainly didn’t help matters.
He passed at least one group of people but no one asked if he needed help.
Where his bank card was found along the riverbank, there’s a LOT of trash. When the card was found, my first thought was that he tripped over something there and fell into the river.