Sometimes The Bad Guy “Wins”
It’s no great revelation that some crimes go unsolved, even some murders. We only need invoke the name Jack the Ripper to testify to that fact (more recently my attention was drawn to the Black Dahlia case). The writer in me was surprised to realize this though. I like to wrap things up neat and tidy, and I like to read stories that wrap things up. The bad guy doesn’t win, the good guy does. We always know who did what to whom and why. But real life intrudes and serves as a reminder that sometimes a murder gets away without a trace.