Murdered Vicar

[jedimistress]

Any initial thoughts of a motive?

[Gromit]

Probably someone with a Mental illness. Probably became fanatically religious, then just fanatical.

[jenstar]

I expect the killer was someone who had returned to the village to exact revenge on the relative who had mistreated him as a child, but imagined no-one would recognise him and was surprised when the vicar did indeed remember him from many years previously. Don't let DCI Barnaby get hold of the case or there'll be another two deaths before his charming daughter makes the connection that solves the case.

[curlyperm]

?? Dont get that one? or maybe i'm just missing something : /

[brionon]

And if you hear a Magpie or a Fox---another dead 'un.

[jenstar]

For the benefit of Curlyperm, that was an allusion to the TV show "Midsomer Murders". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders

[curlyperm]

Ahh.........i see now (bit on the slow side me hee hee hee )
Ta x

[fairkatrina]

Maybe the vicar liked 'em young and this one was coming for revenge...Or maybe he was his long-lost son...Or a crazed maniac...Or a desperate drug addict at the end of his tether...Or maybe it was suicide but because he was a vicar they're covering it up...

[NORMANTHEDOG]

curly,darling,yes you are a bit of a snail.

[dyli795]

Any initial thaughts on a motive? Hmmm, well now, let me see. Ah! I've got it! -no, not that, - won't do. Yes ! wait a minute ! O.K. Here's the motive. The vicar and the murderer were the only two people who knew where was hiden a case of Nazi gold dumped from a fighter plane during the war so the pilot would have enough fuel to get home. The vicar was going to re-roof the church and give the remainder to the national drugs and alcohol rehabilitation service. On the other hand, the murdering git insisted he had a better idea, including relocating to Afghanistan to buy a poppy feild of all things for some obscure reason. Nothing the vicar could quote from the bible could change the murderors plans and in the end, to forward his plans, he had to murder him. Well, that's my initial thaughts on a motive. I've got a zillion more however. Want to hear 'em? Have you got one mistress? (idea for a motive that is!) I assume you are not actualy aquainted with either party.

[brionon]

dyli, sounds reasonable to me.

[dyli795]

Ha ! That's NOTHING ! ! ! I've got some even MORE plausable than that !

[dyli795]

Last night there were three murders within a twenty mile radius of me. Any offers of a reson or motive mistress?

[anotheoldgit]

Can't offer any reason or motive dyli795, but according to a recent post by oneeyedvic, 40 years ago you would not even got to know about those 3 murders.

To quote his words ' the only difference between now and then is media coverage'.

[dyli795]

Nah, I can't see that at all. Forty years ago there were still daily papers and threrefore twentyfour hour updates. Unles they decided to report less about the odd murder giving more space to a train derailment or a canal boat wedged in a loch or somthing. I'm no authority on the matter but I think there is more murdering in this day and age in G.B., or just England for that matter, since the civil war. (1600's)? Maybe someone can illucidate. (It's not like I'm that old BTW)

[Paul22118]

Money for drugs.

[brionon]

Dyl Maybe your spelling caused the suicides .

[dyli795]

Well if some peeple are so intollerent and peddantik the world is a better place for them stabing themselves to death. No, I don't reely meen that it's better to have a few people arround reminding us how NOT to be. God bless 'em