An intrepid YouTuber has ventured into potentially the most dangerous place on earth, an isolated stretch of America's Yellowstone National Park where you can technically get away with murder.
Tom Scott took a journey deep into the park's interior to the isolated 50-square meter stretch of park that is technically lawless.
Known as the Zone of Death, the area is completely uninhabited and belongs to no jurisdiction due to a strange quirk of that most tattered of artefacts: the US constitution.
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Despite the very real risk of running into a Jason Vorhees-type character, Tom ventured into the bush and described exactly why the zone of death exists.
He explained: "If you commit a crime in the US, you can either be prosecuted by the state or the federal government.
“But Yellowstone National Park is special as within its borders only the federal government can prosecute.
“In federal law, America is divided into 19 districts, those districts don’t cross state lines.
“Congress gave all of Yellowstone to Wyoming despite the fact that some of the park is in Idaho.
“So right now in this 50 square mile area I’m standing in the state of Idaho but the federal district for Wyoming.
“If you’re accused of a crime the sixth amendment of the US constitution says you have a right to a trial by jury of the state and district.
“So for crimes committed in this weird little overlap zone a jury would have to be picked from just the people who live in Idaho State and Wyoming district and the population here is zero.
“So no jury which means no trial which in theory means no conviction."
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He went on to stress that just because he technically could get away with it, he didn't intend to commit any crimes there as he's 'not an idiot.'
And amazingly it appears nobody else has either.
As of writing, no known felonies have been committed in the Zone of Death since it was discovered by law professor Brian C. Kalt in his 2005 essay 'The Perfect Crime.'
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