Need Help with Murder O.o

[Serene Imp]

I'm writing a story about a small town like pleasant-ville that gets turned upside down when two murders take place on the same night. Two teen lovers turn up dead in the park. There's no evidence of anyone else being there besides them...

I need help with murder ideas. I want it to be believable but original, something that could happen and someone could really get away with. Cause at the end I'm going to explain in detail how the murderer did it, then never reveal who the murderer is %)

like... the killer used a sharpened knife made of plastic, then melts it down and puts it in a mold of a rose. Goes to the funeral and lays it on the tombstone right in front of everyone and they never know type thing

 

[TheLoveBandit]

Oooh, creative. Nice.


Um, so would the focus be on disposable murder weapons (ice that melts, your plastic that gets reformed, wood that got thrown into a fire afterward, etc)? I get the impression that you intend for the deaths to be obvious murders as opposed to 'possible suicides' that I would imagine is a more common writing tool for murderers to 'get away with it'. Is this correct?

Perhaps, as another way of looking at it - set them up as possible suicides, but the murderer takes a trophy from the victims....something only the coroner would notice, if even they would - and the murderer returns the trophies to the grave site, or somewhere more poetic or political? For example, the killer takes the eyes, then burns the bodies in a car wreck....then later puts the eyes on the school or church to watch all the other people....or on a gravestone, looking at their own graves?

Is there to be a motive? If so, it could wrap nicely in with your story - but it would be more of a challenge to 'get away with it', so it is more of a writing challenge to you in creating something that echoes the murderers technique rather than the easy 'random killing'.