Perfect crimes

Abstract

A crime can, in fact, be perfect in very different ways, and this perfection indeed depends only on the aim of the perpetrator, whose psychic does not always work in a conventional way. Therefore, this phenomenon cannot be simply described. Numerous publications in the field of forensic medicine, in which the keyword „perfect crime” appears, certainly do not exhaust the topic, because they are mostly only interesting speculations on the possibility of demonstrating certain causes of fatal events during a criminal investigation. The purpose of the study was to present a few such publications from 1995-2020 and to analyze how the gathered evidence, research capabilities, and the inquisitiveness of state prosecutors and experts could have influenced the results of investigations. An undeniable fact was determined: the stronger the data gathered, the larger the research capacities, and the greater the curiosity of the investigators, the smaller the chances for committing a perfect crime. And vice versa. Some events, however, have such a high potential to become a perfect crime that the chances of discovering the truth do not exist, or they arise only as a result of an accidental coincidence.