The most famous case of this in the Netherlands is the case of novelist Richard Klinkhamer. ABC turned the story into a made-for-TV movie a few years ago, but it hasn't aired in the Netherlands yet. He murdered his wife, and buried her in his backyard. He then covered her grave with concrete and built a shed over it. Years went by. The case was never solved, but Mr. Klinkhamer did remain a suspect. He then saw fit to make fun of the police by writing a book in which he did murder his wife, in exactly the way the police suspected he had done it. The Dutch title is 'Woensdag gehaktdag'*. A few more years on, Mr. Klinkhamer sold his house, and moved to another part of the country. The new owners of his house didn't like the shed, though and tore it down, thus uncovering the remains of his missing wife. It didn't take long for Richard Klinkhamer to be sent to prison for 15 years, 10 of which he'll have to stay in there.

Another way murderers shoot themselves in their feet quite a lot is saying they 'may have been', or sometimes even 'were, the last person to see the victim alive.' I've seen it happen so often these past ten years. The best known case I know of is that of Ian Huntley, who murdered the two British girls, Holly and Jessica, a case even Larry King talked about on CNN. He said it on TV. There were also a great many cases in the Netherlands where the same thing happened, including one where the husband of a missing woman made a heart-breaking plea for her to come home on a show that tracks down missing persons. He too said he may have, etc. Two weeks later he confessed to her murder.

Oh well, if I ever come across OJ Simpson's book, I probably will read it. It's a sign of an incredibly bad taste. But then again, my taste is pretty bad. And if I don't get to read the book, at least I know he's guilty.