Murders are almost certainly the most heavily investigated and prosecuted crimes. Still, I think there is a real difference in kind. There are very few people who think that murder isn’t a big, big, big deal, even the murder they committed. If you get arrested for murder you may never get to commit another. If you get away with murder you probably spend the rest of your life recalling it and thinking you’ve got to make sure nothing like that happens ever again.
It’s only a handful of people who are callous enough to be okay with murder, weird enough to actually want to murder people, clever enough to get away with multiple murders and somehow also foolish enough to think that whatever emotional gain they get out of murder is worth the risk.
