Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 06, 2024, 05:16 PMIf you or I had been offed the case would already be closed pending new info. Yet in New York many cops are getting overtime. Not the average ones, suit wearing detectives. The budget is thrown away and no expense will be spared. Failure to do so will show the average person how much power they COULD have. That will not be allowed.
Of course. And if they can't nail down the guy who really did it, they'll round up all the usual suspects and gin up a case planting evidence and lock up somebody to demonstrate to anyone thinking of copying as a Vigilante Executioner they always get their man.
Who are the usual suspects in this case? They'll drill down databases for everyone with a policy against all the denied claims and policyholders who died who had relatives who own guns who have criminal records and eventually they'll locate somebody who fits the right profile without an alibi they can make a case against. Doesn't matter if he actually did it, he was probably guilty of something, right?
This is of course a very difficult case to really solve unless the VE made a major mistake or brags to somebody when he's drunk and celebrating. There's no money trail to follow, the motive is just straight vengeance. If there were no witnesses and he disposes of the weapon any evidence will be circumstantial.
The Insurers are killing people every day by denying claims and withholding care for people who can't pay the exorbitant cost of medical care. Even on the rare occasions they get caught at it as happened fictionally in The Rainmaker, the company declares bankruptcy and the worst thing that ever happens is some mid level executive fall guy gets a couple of years in a federal penitentiary resort for white collar criminals playing tennis and shuffleboard. None of it makes the newz cycle.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes them to pin this on somebody. Meanwhile, it will also be interesting to see if this motivates any copycats. If it got truly DANGEROUS to fuck people over by denying their insurance claims, maybe a few claims adjusters will think twice before they deny a claim.
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