Don't know about anyone else, but anything big happening these days I assume SOMEHOW relate to "The Movie" we're all watching. I have been puzzled about this story, because it doesn't seem to connect to anything. I was thinking sex trafficing at first.
I have stumbled on this recently:
"ZONE OF DEATH
The claim that someone could get away with murder in the zone was popularised by Brian Kalt, a Michigan State University law professor.
In 2005 he wrote a paper called "The Perfect Crime”, in which he raises a thought experiment about the strip of land in Idaho.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691642
Mr Kalt's argument boils down to this: the Sixth Amendment guarantees that "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed."
No one lives in the Zone of Death, so a jury could not be assembled.
I think the point OP is making is that if a jury cannot be assembled he cannot be guilty? Or maybe this is to bring attention to the fact that many dead bodies end up in this area.
Hmmmm, there seems to be holes in that theory. Every parcel of land in America is either owned, managed, or overseen by someone, whether it's an Indian Tribe, the Bureau of Land Management, private owners, public lands, corporate owned, or whatever. There is no "law free" territory anywhere. For any crime (such as murder or rape) there is some jurisdictional entity that can enforce laws attendant to that region. Juries can be assembled... it may be a unconventional jury, but it would be a jury nevertheless.