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 - 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.
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#2 - 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.
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#4 - Family Plot
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/5/2015
An Orlando mother goes missing fifteen years after her abusive husband left for good. Did he return for revenge? Did she flee from the law after collecting his social security all these years? Do her grieving children know more than they're saying?
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#9 - 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.
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#13 - 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.
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#14 - Vanishing Act
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/8/2015
An Exxon oil executive goes missing in front of his New Jersey home. Police fear a medical emergency until a ransom note arrives from an eco-terrorist organization. As the case stretches on, the kidnappers' behavior grows more and more baffling.
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#15 - Silent Killer
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2016
Diane Girts is found dead in the bathtub of her home adjoining her husband's funeral home, and investigators cannot determine exactly how she died; as the case unfolds, detectives uncover troubling clues pointing to a cunning and dangerous killer.
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#17 - The Bedroom Basher
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/22/2015
The case of former Marine Kevin Green, who was convicted in 1980 of a vicious 1979 assault on his wife that took the life of their unborn daughter. He was exonerated in 1996, however, when DNA evidence linked another man to the attack.
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#18 - The Curious Case of Persian Violet
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/11/2014
27-year-old Jarrod Davidson is shot dead outside his apartment in Santa Barbara, California. Next to him is a suspicious potted plant. He was in the middle of a nasty custody dispute but the DNA doesn’t match his ex-wife. So who killed him?
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#19 - Frozen Killer
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/24/2014
A 31-year-old woman named Julie Keown dies of antifreeze poisoning in Waltham, Massachusetts. Detectives rule out suicide and accidental ingestion. Then, after untangling a web of lies, they turn to her husband, James, a popular radio host.
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#22 - The Body in the Swamp
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2016
Miami businessman Henry Diaz goes missing the night before a family vacation. His business success has earned him many enemies... even within his own family. But before police can figure out who killed Henry Diaz, they'll need to find his body. Follows detectives as they try to track down the whereabouts of the Miami grocery store owner.
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#25 - 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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