Ah, yet another mysterious death in the world. News headlines, press coverage, police investigations. Ooooh, the suspense.
I think Bob Woolmer’s death has received more press coverage in the past week, than any other event I recall. Searching for ‘woolmer’ on IOL’s (rather poor) search came back with 425 hits, of which at least the first 100 are since the day of his death. News24’s (rather pitiful) search confirms the same, although they have less news stories, but still close to a hundred. Why do all these “celebs” get all this damned press coverage? Why doesn’t the murder of some poor innocent 11 year old girl that was murdered and her body stuck into the roof of her mother’s house, get this amount of press coverage??!!??!!?!?!? Oh wait, Sheldean Human’s murder did get lots of press coverage. She wasn’t a celeb. But she is now, maybe her mother should sell some of the paintings the kid did…
What’s wrong with this picture?! It’s a murder mystery in the world of cricket!!!!! Whodidit?! Was it a member of the Pakistani cricket team? A Pakistani fan that blames the couch for the piss poor performance of his (or her!) team?? Was it OJ Simpson, trying to cover up something for the mafia? Good god, it could be anybody! So far as I can see, there have been no arrests made connected to the murder last week, but I suspect they will any moment now. They might very well be waiting for the air to clear. Did you know people were asking for the Cricket World Cup to actually STOP because of the murder? What the hell man? It’s good cricket!
I’m sure that with enough time, the Jamaican police and CSI teams will have read sufficient blogs, news sites, conspiracy theorist sites and newspapers, to figure out who did it… It’s going to be the Iraq war all over again! CNN is going to cover the murderer getting onto a plane to Mexico, and the Jamaican police is going to be watching, and think “Oi maaaaan, dehr goes da murderer maaaan.”. Or something equally unentertaining. It’s best they call in Grissam to come and do the investigation, he always gets his man. Or woman, as the case may be.
But let’s speculate on who could have murdered Bob Woolmer shall we?
A member of the Pakistani cricket team?
Perhaps. But surely that would be too obvious? To easy to get caught I think.
A crazed, disappointed fan?
More likely, and easier to get away, just blend into the crowd. But really now, what idiot blames the coach for the team’s poor performance?
The betting mafia?
Yeah, OK, maybe. He was instructed to throw the second and third matches in the first pool of games, he agreed, but underestimated how sucky his team was going to be in the first two matches, so the mafia lost millions. Less likely than the crazed fan idea.
His wife?
OK, maybe. Insurance payout benefit? She saw the opportunity after the bad losses, and thought that she could let the media’s speculation direct attention away from her. Nice.
OK, those are my candidates for the final conviction of Bob Woolmer’s murder. What do you think?