Death Note

You do bring up a good point. I suppose until L began his investigation Light never conciderd himself at risk of discovery enough to conceal the times he was doing the killing. Even that alone was only a small clue and would likely never have lead directly to his capeure..of course by changeing this when he learned the investigators were aware he gave away the clue that he had knowledge of the ongoing investigation. In each instance where Light learned of how he was being traced he took actions to conver that particular path and in so doing ended up giveing another clue in place of the one he concealed. Basicly his attempts to avert his discovery were what served to draw more suspicion. Had he sumply gone on about his buisness and payed no attention to the investigateion he would likely naver have done anything to lead them any closer to finding him. The first clues being that his first killing was in the area he lived in and that he was working around a school schedule were only vague clues and would have made him only one of many suspects. The timeing of his killings could have even implied simply someone with a work schedule that only allowed for them to act in their off hours which L would likely have expanded his search to had Light not given further clues. I think a big point the show was makeing that it was in fact Lights pride and desire to show he could outwit his puruers that borught about his downfall.   See 6 other replies