My subscription to The Exigent HR Quarterly is not in good standing, so I can’t look it up; but I’d be curious to know what the breakdown is between assassins who specifically avoid anything unrelated to the core objective of killing whoever it is, in order to work more quickly and reduce the amount of physical evidence and potential secondary charges in play and assassins who deliberately indulge in complications in the hopes of making a targeted murder look like a property crime gone bad or a drunken dispute that escalated or some other flavor of non-calculated murder.
I’d assume that KISS is a safe general principle here as elsewhere; but I’d also imagine that there are certain circumstances where either customer requirements or a desire to get the apathetic local homicide squad rather than some more intense anti organized crime outfit would make things much more convenient if an assassination looks like a mugging.
