05-12-2015, 02:52 PM
(05-12-2015, 01:18 PM)wfmyers1207 Wrote: [quote='Elkhound' pid='12623' dateline='1431449321']
90% of the murders that are identified as such are solved. However, I suspect that a great many 'accidental deaths', sudden illnesses, etc. are nothing of the sort.
Remember the Dorothy L. Sayers novel "Unnatural Death"? (Oh, that's an idea---Lord Peter Wimsey as a Grimm?)
Remember that it is a novel. In the real world if someone appears to have died of a heart attack that is almost certainly the cause of their death.
How do we know? Unless there is a reason to suspect foul play, there's likely to be no autopsy. And, once there is a reason to suspect, then it comes into the category of 'failed' murders, which I will admit that are usually found out. There are drugs that mimic the symptoms of a heart attack, and if someone with a history of heart troubles dies of what looks like a heart attack, who is going to test for a drug? (Remember the old adage--unless you are in Africa, when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.)
Within the world of "Grimm", there have been cases that, if Nick hadn't been there, would have been put down as an animal attack, or a sickness, or an accident.