Naruto Shippuuden Episode 299

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I can think of about a dozen. Especially since there was no "2 minute" time limit on what he had to tell him.

It's not as if the cops were on the way. Itachi literally murdered everyone then just hung out till Sasuke got home from school.

Itachi killed everyone, and Sasuke walked in on him.

Cops were not on the way (Uchihas were the cops after all), but he's not staying around till someone comes around.

Why couldn't Itachi just kill everyone except for saskue and then disappeared. If saskue ran into him later in the future itachi could've just said it wasn't him and nobody knows who it was.

Hokage would have spread the word already. Itachi's corpse would have been missing, and the village would have needed to find the one responsible. If no one from the village did it, then they would have needed to direct their suspicions at other villages, which defies the point of killing the Uchihas to maintain village stability and well-being.