An analytical framework, as much as its denizens, loves nothing so much as a murder mystery to solve and short of the wars and (other) international intrigues that often lead to all manner of unjust killings, the forensic science of unexplained death plays a special role in cultural and media reflexivity.
I do not suggest this as an assertion of sinister undercurrents or any other systems of conspiratorial brutality; as where these do credibly exist, they usually hide themselves quite readily (or accidentally) in plain sight.
It is more that the fascination with this deadliest of sins provides an anchor and mnemonic of incentive for the intelligence with which one might then proceed to solve, attribute and seek justice for these acts.
Yes, justice must be delivered – my points are ad hoc and generalist observations that inhabit the larger space of causal chains and entangled organisational motivations that suggest an orientation towards solving a crime might always and inadvertently sustain the intricately complex systems of human experience, trauma and inequity that guarantee that these at some time and place actually occur.
The variously convoluted and catastrophically chaotic histories of prohibition being a template case.
Daedelus Kite 