• For simplicity, let’s assuming this is your country, in some random rural area
  • The dead person has a kitchen knife plunged into their chest, blood is still fresh
  • The dead person is a random stanger, you’ve never met them, they are just a random average (non-famous) person
  • There is no one else in the house
  • You have a tiny bit of blood on your clothes, but not a lot, you are unsure of whose blood it is
  • You have no injuries
  • You were never drugged or anything, you just happen to mysteriously, spontaneously get teleported there, while sleeping. You went to sleep on your bed and just woke up only to find yourself in this scenario. (Bloodtests will show nothing)
  • You wake up right in the morning, at sunrise
  • There is electricity and running water, small amounts of food in the refrigerator, enough for maybe a day
  • You don’t have any items with you, not your phone, nothing beside the clothes you slept with (if any). There are clothing in this house belonging to the dead person
  • There only electronics devices (besides appliances) in the house is the dead person’s smartphone, in their pockets (no lockscreen codes or anything), and a laptop (no password). This house has wifi.
  • This house does not have any security cameras.
  • There is a car in the driveway, belonging to the dead person. No other vehicles, no bikes or anything like that.
  • Nobody (yet) knows this person is dead. They live alone.

So, would you think that you did the murder, and just turn yourself in; or assume someone set you up and try to escape? How would you escape this scenario and avoid prison?

Remember, this is a rural area, not that many cameras.

So do you make a run for it? How?

Or do you just call the authorities and hope you don’t get charged with the murder? Very awkward interrogation tho, nobody would believe you. I doubt “I don’t remember how I got there” is a strong defence.

What is your “game plan”?

  • hitstun@fedia.io
    15·
    8 hours ago

    My first thought is that someone else brought the two of us here to kill us. They already got this stranger, and they’re coming back to kill me too.

    So, I’d quietly gather some survival supplies and sneak out of the house. Once I can hide far enough away from the house, I’d find a phone and call the police.

    It doesn’t even cross my mind that I could be the killer until someone accuses me of it. I’ve never met that person, so why would I even lay a finger on them? I’d just tell people what I know as accurately as I can. No, I don’t know how I got there, honest!

    • flubba86@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 hours ago

      This is the correct answer. I wouldn’t assume I’m the murderer, I’d assume I’m the second victim.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    5·
    8 hours ago

    I would check in any case whether the person is really dead.
    I would look around for other people.
    Next I would try to find out where I am.
    Then probably call the police with the person’s phone.

    No, I would never assume that I have done a murder.

    And yes, our police works differently than the one in Hollywood movies.

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    12 hours ago

    I am playing GTA V and have just swapped players to Trevor and I will continue playing as such

      • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world
        6·
        11 hours ago

        You
        Are likely
        To
        Be eaten by a grue

        If this predicament seems particularly cruel
        Just think of who’s fault it could be
        Without a torch or a match in your inventory

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    13 hours ago

    Immediately close all the windows, lock the doors, and check the body for maggots. Checking the body for maggots will clearly indicate about how long they have been deceased. With the windows and doors blocking out view from the outside, you can then use this information to make the critical decision of whether to have intercourse with the corpse or not.

  • Vopyr@lemmy.world
    13·
    15 hours ago

    It is difficult to write exactly what a person would do in such a case, most people can write one thing, but if this really happened to them, it is highly likely that they would act differently. I don’t see the point of trying to run away or hide the crime, neither morally nor logically, the only good idea is to call the police, in any case, even if you try to hide the murder, murder is a murder, you know, a crime, and secondly, it may come up in the future and you will have bigger problems.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Yup, my presence is going to leave some kind of evidence so might as well call it in but don’t say anything about why you are there to the cops and just lawyer up.

  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
    6·
    13 hours ago

    I was with you with this thought experiment until the teleportation part and knowing that you weren’t drugged. In this situation, you couldn’t possibly know that at the time and that really changes things from a bizarre but realistic scenario to one involving aliens or some such.

    • blackbrook@mander.xyz
      1·
      10 hours ago

      You also couldnt know no one knows the person is dead… or that they live alone. And unless you killed them, then someone knows they are dead.

  • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    I’m not going to prison, and the police are unlikely to believe me. So I would dispose of the body best I could, scrub my shit down, and start going south until I hit Mexico.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    2·
    11 hours ago

    Do I remember my whereabouts for say yesterday or my regular life, or am I just brainwashed and woken up next to a corpse? Two very different scenarios

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      You remember your entire life, and the last thing you remember is going to sleep at home, then the next thing you know is you wake up to a dead body next to you.

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I would never think I committed the murder, especially since there isn’t a lot of blood on me and I don’t know anyone.

        I’ve experienced false dream awakenings from nightmares worse than this scenario so one thing I would think is that I’m probably still asleep; I’ll run away.

        I’ve also experienced extreme denial once in my life, it feels like you forget quickly whatever traumatic trigger just happened (but then you remember it, triggers you again, you forget it again, repeat). That’ another possible way my brain could react under those circumstances, I can’t predict myself. I’ll still run away.

        Now, if I somehow avoided both scenarios then I would probably still run away, hoping to find someone who can help. If I’m walking for days without reaching any towns/people then I’ll probably be considering to just move on and not look back; wait for the police to find me first. But I wouldn’t try to escape. If they find me I’ll be honest.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    7·
    15 hours ago

    Find a way to call the authorities. I don’t trust my brain at the best of times, and for all I know, I’m the murderer despite no recollection. Because of no recollection. That’d be a sign of some kind of mental problem, right? And if I’m otherwise fine and not responsible, there’s still a whacking great gap in my memory (for how I came to be there) and there’s a murderer on the loose.

    I’d also try not to contaminate the scene any more than I had to.

    Knowing my luck, the police would pin it on me anyway, but since, as I said, I don’t trust my brain, as far as I know, they might well be right and it might be the best thing for everyone if I am put away somewhere.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    I’d think I’d better start setting up my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats and collecting bottle caps.