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Murder in book-help
Before I say anything, I'd like to make it clear I'm a writer. I'm writing a book. I do not, nor have I ever, planned on murdering anybody.
But basically, it's a paranormal/psych horror about a girl who was bullied and outcasted, who is then accidentally murdered by popular classmates who took a joke too far, and the murdered girl's ghost taking individualized revenge on the kids responsible, while they all deal with whether to tell or not.
A big part of the story centers around the fact there was absolutely no justice delivered, and so the murder has to be framed in a way that it could be passed as a suicide/a death having nothing to do with other people, so that there's no investigation. The kids responsible are very much rich and privileged, well liked and behaved (on the outside) and the story being exposing their sadistic/bad qualities. Because of this, I could very much play the idea the police were paid off but I'd rather there be absolutely no tarnish to their reputation before our victim takes her revenge.
Obviously, the murder has to take place away from society so no witnesses or cameras could give it away. A thought I had would be the idea they pushed her in a river and she drowned, and perhaps the police think it was a deliberate thing.
Basically, what's a realistic way a murder would look like it's not a murderer given:
1. It takes place in an isolated place so there would be no snitches or cameras
2. The murder was an accident over vicious bullying
3. There can't be too many marks that make it look like she was beat up/touched by other people
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You mentioned river and I came up with an immediate idea. I don't know if 'planking' is still popular or a thing among youth as I am grandma age, but if the school is a rural one and most roads do not get much traffic, then perhaps the popular kids dare others, including this girl to do 'planking' on the side rails of a bridge that crosses a creek and it isn't all that high, maybe 10 ft at most to the water. She eventually decides to do it to prove she is not chicken and be accepted by these popular people. Maybe they even tell her it's an initiation to be part of them. So when its her turn, she's up on the rail planking and two of the popular kids approach and both push her off the rail where she falls into the creek, hitting her head on a rock so it looks like the hit to the head killed her. The kids all agree to keep silent on this and tell no one. Eventually when her body is found still laying in the creek at the murder site, she hasn't floated away as this is very low water and rocky mostly. The fall can be even less.
I have crossed creeks where the bridge was only about 6 feet to the water. But instead of the fall killing her, hitting her head on rocks in the creek and cracking her head open could do it. However, it wouldsn't have happened unless she was pushed over. The ghost of the girl is disoriented as she is now standing on the bridge with the kids who are discussing that if it is discovered they were here with her, that they would tell police that one of them tripped and accidentally bumped her off the ledge so they were too scared to say anything and get in trouble. As for how its found out, that they were even at the location, have two ladies out blackberry picking along the road and their car is parked too far from bridge to see and they have wandered in their berry picking as far as the bridge after the accident where they see the kids at the bridge after the death so when police are asking if anybody has seen anyone at that bridge on that date, the women tell who they saw there before they went back to their car. You can have the ghost of the dead girl disoriented as it happened so fast, standing on the bridge and hearing their plan to pass it off as an accident. She looks over and sees her body down below and realizes they killed her. To make it more complicated, add in a new twist to planking with others trying to distract or scare the person planking, so that they find they can't do it and get back off. Maybe, there could be other twists like a guy mad that she spurned him when he asked her out. She felt no chemistry but he was vindictive, and unbeknownst to the others, he was a bit off mentally and thought he was justified in knocking her off the rail and maybe talked a friend into helping him. That way not all are guilty or murder but guilty of covering up who did it.
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