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What if one of the astronauts on the International Space Station had a secret life as a killer or just had some kind of mental breakdown on the space station and killed everybody?
Scenario: An astronaut guilty of multiple counts of murder and involved in human trafficking reads a new story while on the ISS that someone close to him was arrested for a serious crime. The fear that his accomplice would soon rat him out drives him out over the edge and he hatches a plan to kill everybody else on the space station and either escape, kill himself or simply hole up in the ISS as long as possible.
How would NASA, the media and the international community react to this? Could the killer astronaut escape? How would the government arrest somebody holed up in the ISS? Whose jurisdiction would it be under?
Disclaimer: Murder is very bad. This post does not endorse murder. Think of it as the plot to a horror movie.