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We can't think of many non-violent ways to murder someone. Maybe forcing someone to watch Little House on the Prairie reruns until they die of boredom? At any rate, crime novels require a certain level of violence, and In the Woods is a combo of police procedural and psychological suspense. And part of police procedure involves checking out the dead body at the crime scene (eek), examining the bloody murder weapons (ew), and attending the autopsy (barf). Yeah, there's a reason why we read about these things and don't actually do them.
Rob is a little desensitized violence, both because of the 1984 crime and because he's a murder investigator, so it makes sense for him to downplay the violence of the crime.
Rosalind didn't just manipulate Damien into committing their heinous crime; he had to have been screwed up in the first place to even do something so terrible to another human being.