police files: murder methods

For this blog post I wanted to dig into my notes for this first edition of police files...and the word is murder, to be more specific murder methods. Since murder is what I deal with in my books, I thought that I would start off with discussing the different kinds of murder methods. When I use the term murder method, I am referring to the different kinds of methods of murder. There are six murder methods and three of them are more well-known than the other three, but all of these methods are deadly and usually end up with dead body on scene. 
The first three methods are more well-known and usually end up in TV shows and books all the time. They are crime of passion, murder for hire, and poisoning. What detective show would be complete without a murder for hire mystery or the undetectable poison. These three murder methods, however, have something in common, a "personal touch" if you will. These three murder methods will, most likely, be committed by someone who knows the victim. Whereas murder for hire is a little more "hands off", they all still target people they know and have a personal reason for getting rid of the intended victim. They are also all motivated by intense feelings of anger, jealousy, and even revenge.
The last three murder methods don't get as much TV time but are still just as deadly. They are staged accidents, irresistible impulse, and murder under duress. These last three are not as personal because the victims of these murder methods have a greater chance of being people not necessarily personally connected to the offender. Staged accidents are when the crime scene has been altered to mislead detectives. Irresistible impulse usually refers to the offender having some sort of mental defect and murder under duress is when a person kills someone under a life-threatening situation themselves. So, that is my first edition of police files: murder methods. 
Until next time...