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How do homicide detectives stay sane after seeing such disturbing crime scenes? : AskReddit
Main Post: How do homicide detectives stay sane after seeing such disturbing crime scenes? : AskReddit
True Detectives (season 1) or Sherlock any season? : television
Main Post: True Detectives (season 1) or Sherlock any season? : television
[Discussion] Any other armchair detectives get completely engrossed in The Twelve? What do you think happened? : NetflixBestOf
Main Post: [Discussion] Any other armchair detectives get completely engrossed in The Twelve? What do you think happened? : NetflixBestOf
Detectives of Reddit, what was the strangest case you’ve ever investigated?
Main Post: Detectives of Reddit, what was the strangest case you’ve ever investigated?
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All right, detective now but this happened when I was on patrol several years ago.
Got a call to check the welfare of a guy whose neighbour hadn't seen him in a couple years. Why it took so long to report... But it was out in a rural area.
Anyway, we roll up and the windows are black with mould and flies. Car is parked in the garage. No signs of forced entry.
Breach the door and find said guy wrapped up in a phone cord beside a toppled chair in his dining room. He was mummified/melting into the carpet... Barely recognizable as a human aside from his shape and clothes.
The smell of him mingled with the inches of stagnant water in his basement from burst pipes and all the dead flies and mould. I'll never forget it.
We also found two bags of groceries neatly packed on the floor in his kitchen. House was very tidy as well.
No witnesses. Estranged from his family. Clearly had a cat but we never found its remains. Medical record indicated he had a heart condition.
My theory is he was having a heart attack and tried to call 911 but never got to make the call.
Perhaps the creepiest part? His mailbox was overflowing with past due bills and cancelled utility notices. The last one was a couple months old. And it STILL too someone that long to call.
Detectives of Reddit, how is being a detective in real life different from being a detective in movies? Is solving a crime as fun as it looks?
Main Post: Detectives of Reddit, how is being a detective in real life different from being a detective in movies? Is solving a crime as fun as it looks?
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Investigator, not detective, but some things in common obviously since we both investigate and detect things.
The main difference, I think, is that while the part of the story where you have a crazy hunch that it just doesn't add up, and that you're going to get to the bottom of this, etc. still happens, in most cases you just never do get to the bottom of it. The mystery exists, but not the tidy solution that makes it all fit. There's no narrative satisfaction, so the couple months you spent looking into "who was Man Bun?!" just resolves into an understanding that welp, I'm never gonna know that.
Are there any real-life examples of a "world-famous detective"?
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There was a tweet I saw once that said something along the lines of "it's funny how we readily accept that Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot are "world-famous detectives", a title that does not even remotely exist in real life". It made me wonder if there were any examples of, if not world-famous, at least extremely noteworthy detectives in real life.
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AKA the guy who invented modern criminology