The BEST episodes of The Perfect Murder
Every episode of The Perfect Murder ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Perfect Murder!
"THE PERFECT MURDER" brings viewers some of the most diabolical, perplexing murder cases to land on detectives’ desks – the kind of cases that make or break careers and provide fodder for Hollywood mystery movies. These ingenious killers are every detective’s worst nightmare. Whether by planting false evidence, or writing anonymous letters to police, these murderers will stop at nothing to stay one step ahead and get away with the perfect murder. In this program, we focus on the investigation, as detectives slowly put the pieces together to unravel the twisted truth. As detectives uncover new evidence, and turn to new suspects, we flashback through stylized reenactment, to depict each possible theory of what may have happened.
#1 - Love and Death
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/9/2017
Atlanta preschool teacher Julie Love goes missing just a week after getting engaged to boyfriend Mark; detectives find numerous suspects in the teacher's disappearance, but the truth turns out to be far worse than they could have imagined.
#2 - Murder-in-Law
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/3/2016
When Nancy Lyon dies of a mysterious illness in 1991, her wealthy father tells police she was poisoned by her own husband.
#3 - Disappearing Act
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/10/2016
California real estate developer Jana Koklich vanishes in the summer of 2000, causing police to suspect her job led her into danger, until a local pastor comes forward with a shocking confession.
#4 - Prescription for Murder
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/17/2016
The brutal murders of an elderly couple in 2010 Wisconsin are investigated; and the case takes on a greater urgency when family and neighbors begin receiving death threats.
#5 - Curtain Call
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/24/2016
California student Julie Kibuishi is found dead in the bed of her friend, Sam Herr, a decorated war hero, who is nowhere to be found.
#6 - A Shot in the Dark
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/14/2017
After New York City fashion photographer Joel Schoenfeld is shot dead in his Greenwich Village studio, detectives uncover a dark secret and a twisted tale of revenge.
#7 - Fade to Black
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/21/2017
Film director Adrienne Shelly is discovered hanging by a bed sheet from the shower rod in her bathroom; while Shelly's death looks like a suicide, her husband insists it was murder, and detectives start to believe him.
#10 - Body in the Glades
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2017
Forty-two-year-old Miami mother Raquel Calderin vanishes without a trace on her way home from work in 2012; the investigation into disappearance leads detectives deep into a disturbing family picture, and the truth will haunt them for years to come.
#11 - The Devil Made Me Do It
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/19/2017
Robert Schwartz, a father of three, is murdered brutally in his own home in a way that's made to look like a ritualistic killing, but the investigation will uncover a killer much closer to home.
#12 - Murder Well Done
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/26/2017
After 39-year-old Dawn Viens goes missing, her chef husband, David, reports she ran away to escape her problems; the investigation leads detectives to an unexpected killer who disposed of Viens' body in an unimaginable way.
#13 - Death in the Family
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/2/2017
Randy Scheffield's family finds him dead in his bed and assumes he has succumbed to a heart attack, but detectives slowly uncover a murder conspiracy that will rock Scheffield's small town for years to come.
#14 - Murder By The Book
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/27/2016
In 1988, a Burbank couple is shot in their own home, the investigation reveals a scheming killer who almost got away with the perfect murder.
#15 - Football Fatale
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/16/2017
Pro football player Sean Taylor is shot dead by an intruder in his Miami home.
#16 - Bizarre Love Triangle
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/2018
Ann Anastasi returns home from shopping to find her husband, Anthony, lifeless in bed, a gun beside him; police soon find a second victim, Jacqueline Riggs, in the basement; later, they discover a dark tale of love, lust and violence.
#17 - Gone Girl
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/2018
The body of 20-year-old student Sandra Bonaventure is discovered in a garbage bag on a sidewalk in New York City; the trail of clues lead to a cold-hearted killer who possesses an astonishing talent for deception.
#18 - Mother Dear
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/2018
Forty-seven-year-old mother Joyce Aparo is found strangled to death near a road 70 miles from her home in Glastonbury, Conn.; the investigation leads detectives into a dark world of abuse, sexual obsession and lies.
#19 - A Motive Most Bizarre
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/2018
Motivational speaker Jeffrey Locker, 52, is found stabbed to death in East Harlem, N.Y.; at first, detectives suspect Locker was in the wrong place at the wrong time, then they learn the truth is far more complex and shocking.
#20 - Defenseless
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/2018
A car races up to the emergency room doors at a Mount Kisco, N.Y., hospital; driver Carlos Perez-Olivo has been shot in his side, while wife Peggy has been shot in the head; investigators must determine what horror has befallen this couple.
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#21 - Whidbey Island Mystery
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2018
At Christmastime, Russel Douglas is found shot to death in his car on a deserted road on Whidbey Island north of Seattle; it's the start of a case that will take a decade to solve and leave many with lingering questions.
#22 - The Green Eyed Monster
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/2018
Peter Theriault, 51, has never missed a day of work in nearly 30 years, then he fails to arrive for his shift at a car plant in Commerce City, Calif.; his family and friends immediately suspect that something is very wrong.
#24 - Jump Shot
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/20/2018
Hollywood golden boy Gavin Smith, a 20th Century Fox executive and former star UCLA basketball player, goes missing; for years, his family and detectives search tirelessly for answers, but a group of heartless characters hold fast to their secrets.
#25 - The Last Blitz
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/27/2018
University of Miami football player Marlin Barnes and his friend, Timwanika Lumpkins, are beaten to death in Barnes' apartment; as detectives search for the vicious killer, the crime sends shock waves through the campus and community.