Who P-P-P-Plugged Perl?

The movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit is based on a deeply weird novel by Gary K. Wolf in which Roger Rabbit actually is a murderer (there are several) and is killed halfway through the book—which doesn’t stop him, he is a toon after all. Reading What Killed Perl? kind of reminds me of that. There are a bunch of stories people believe are true, but looking into what actually happened, those stories…