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165. The Perfect Crime

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🗓️ 1 May 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you are driving and kill a pedestrian, there's a good chance you'll barely be punished. Why?

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Hey podcast listeners, as you may have heard, our new book Think Like A Freak is out on

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May 12th.

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On May 4th, the CBS show Sunday Morning is scheduled to run a segment on us and the

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book.

0:13.8

Can't tell you exactly what's in it, but you'll probably hear some of this, some of this.

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Yep, some of this.

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That Sunday May 4th, CBS Sunday Morning.

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And now for today's program, The Perfect Crime.

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Let me warn you, what you're about to hear is a sick idea.

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Let's say I want to kill someone.

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But I also don't want to go to prison, in fact I don't want to be punished at all.

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So what do I do?

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Well, this is one idea I have and because I live in New York City, probably wouldn't be

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very hard to pull off.

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I ran this idea past a few experts.

1:02.2

First, I asked a fellow named Robert Noland.

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Oh, if you wanted to kill someone, yes.

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Oh, yeah, it'd probably be a pretty good way to do it, I suppose, without getting caught.

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Then I asked Lisa Smith.

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And theoretically, I agree with you that it could be pulled off as the perfect crime in

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very particular circumstances.

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And finally, I went to Charlie's a gear.

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