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Death

True crime is not always simple. Even the most well-documented real-life cases&nbsp;can seem more like the work of fiction, filled with bizarre legal twists that surprise us and verdicts that may disgust us.&nbsp;Sometimes&nbsp;people do indeed get away with murder. A person can commit a terrible crime and walk away free because their defense concocted some brilliant scheme that makes just enough sense to keep a jury from convicting them. Other times, innocent people are wrongly accused, and it takes a creative, surprising defense to clear their good name.What is assured, though, is that as long as humans continue to commit murder and lawyers continue to defend them, defense teams will keep coming up with the wildest legal defense arguments - and some of them will work.

15 Ridiculous Murder Defenses That Actually Worked

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15 Crazy Murder Defenses That Actually Worked

Timothy Ryan White

Psycho Killers

Lists about Ted Bundy, the charismatic confessed serial slayer of at least 30 young women across seven states throughout the 1970s.

The Handsome Stranger

Graveyard Shift

For as long as there have been killers, there have been killers caught because they made mistakes. Despite exhaustive detective work by authorities, sometimes killers are caught because they became sloppy. These marauding maniacs are still human, and like the rest of us, they are prone to mistakes. Some killers get sloppy, while others are eventually apprehended because they got lazy. One thing is for sure: we are all thankful when they&nbsp;do themselves in.

Compiled here is a list of some of the grandest cases of stupidity and laziness&nbsp;by some of the most infamous killers to have roamed the earth. Some of the psychos on this list seemed to want to be caught, while others were genuinely baffled when their own hubris led to their capture.&nbsp;Some of these killers were arrested after asking the police for advice and others when their crimes hit too close to home, but all of them were caught because of their own sloppiness.

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