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The friend who helps you bury the body, metaphorically or otherwise, no questions asked.
means A person who knowingly helps someone else commit a crime or wrongdoing.
from From the older English word 'complice,' meaning an associate or partner, which came through French from Latin 'complex' — 'closely connected, allied,' literally 'folded together' (com- 'together' + plicare 'to fold'). The leading 'a' likely crept in by mistake, when 'a complice' was misheard as 'an accomplice,' possibly nudged by 'accomplish.' So buried in the word is the image of two lives folded into one shared deed.
- legal weight
- Often charged same as the actual perpetrator
- latin root
- From complicare, to fold together
- after the fact
- Helping a fugitive escape counts too
- silent type
- Mere knowledge isn't enough; action required
ruth snyder — accomplice to her husband's murder in 1927 new york, executed alongside henry judd gray
clarence anglin — accomplice with brother john in the 1962 alcatraz escape, never recaptured
wendy charles-a-dale — accomplice to serial killer samuel little, helped dispose of victims in the 1980s-2000s