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How come these murders are suddenly resolved? (SPOILERS)

posted 10 years ago by mariekeuses-81-641159
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Liked the movie, right up to the end. Then I got a little bit confused....

My question: who told the police what happened?
The only ones who knew about the 'deal' between the mother and the killer, were the mother and the killer (and the guy that recommended him).
Ben didn't know, he only knew there was a guy in the house who killed his mother and his little sister and that his girlfriend killed his other sister.
Diondra didn't know, because she was in Ben's bedroom too when the mother and the sister were killed.
Libby didn't know, because she fled the house.
But suddenly we see a big story in the news, that arresting Diondra is part of a much bigger case of a serial killer that admitted to have killed at least 50 people on their request.

Did I miss something?

[–] emaleth333 10 years ago

Haven't seen the movie but the book explained that he was picked up for another crime and confessed to a bunch of murders.

[–] BallofFire 10 years ago

Lyle tells Libby over the phone, when Libby is in Diondra's bathroom. The killer was caught by someone in the Kill Club, who posed as a bankrupt hedge fund manager who wanted to use the killer's services. The killer confessed to killing Patty Day.

"But why is the rum gone?"

[–] mariekeuses-81-641159 10 years ago

Well, that didn't happen in the movie.
Unless i dozed off completely for a second. But i'm sure i didn't.
Thanks for clearing that up.

[–] currentlyfivebyfive 10 years ago

It did happen in the movie. Libby was in Crystal's bedroom (or bathroom?). Libby found her mother's ruby cross. (In the book, it was her sister's diary).

[–] mariekeuses-81-641159 10 years ago

True, but .... That was already explained in the movie: we saw Diondra stealing the ruby cross from the dead mother's neck, but it doesn't explain the whole 'make a murder look like a suicid plan', or does it?

[–] Dejay 10 years ago

Well it's clear in the movie that the angle of death has confessed and that he also has the "suicide notes" or goodbye letters to prove it.

[–] mariekeuses-81-641159 10 years ago

That's the easy way out and it would ruin half of the movies I like: the killers just confessed and presented the evidence themselves. ;-)

[–] Dejay 10 years ago

Yeah it's a bit too convenient. It's not implausible that the guy would confess, but the whole timing.

[–] BlackDog123 10 years ago

As the poster above said, he definitely had the mother's letter. He kept them. When he was caught for a different murder and was investigated, he showed the letters and/or confessed. It's not convenient, in my opinion, because they will often take the death penalty off the table if a person who committed multiple murders gives details/reveals where bodies are/etc.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

[–] mariekeuses-81-641159 10 years ago

But it was convenient that they suddenly caught the guy and were able to offer him a deal, right?
And why would he keep the letter? But that's a whole new topic! :-)

[–] BlackDog123 10 years ago

I don't have a PhD in criminology or anything, but I do watch a lot of 20/20 and ID, and independently look up the cases that interest me. Lots of serial killers and rapists keep mementos of their crimes - panties or scraps of clothes, Driver's Licenses, journals, pictures, etc. Jeffrey Dahmer kept body parts, William Ng had polaroids. It wouldn't surprise me that a "real life" angel of death-like killer would keep the letters their victims (clients?) wrote.

A certain amount of convenience is necessary, I guess. It didn't bother me, because they mentioned the Angel Of Death or whatever early on in the movie, and I thought it was well done. YMMV, though:)

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

[–] crimson3448 9 years ago

This all happens in the same scene. Think you might of just missed it or something. I just finished watching this and it was very clear.

[–] jgater1981 10 years ago

What ballofire wrote is EXACTLY what was said in the movie.

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[–] SdZoppUZsZZ33 10 years ago

Diondra wasn't in on the suicide pact, she just so happened to have gotten caught right after the Angel of Debt was.

[–] taknocks 10 years ago

I do remember them mentioning how the man was caught, but I was confused by Diondra's arrest. I could have missed something. Did Ben finally give her up after 28 years? Otherwise what evidence did they have? The cross doesn't prove anything.

[–] ExplorerDS6789 10 years ago

Because the script was written in an afternoon, in one draft...on a legal pad.

[–] tgbp 10 years ago

I think having a letter written saying her plan was stupid cuz that would have the ins company not pay if he was caught right away