The WORST episodes of The Perfect Murder
Every episode of The Perfect Murder ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - 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.
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#3 - 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.
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#4 - 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.
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#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 - Garden of Evil
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/28/2017
An intruder shoots Daniel Ott dead with a shotgun in a stunning case of mistaken identity that leads investigators into the heart of one of the most dangerous criminal rings in the country.
#18 - 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.
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#19 - 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.
#20 - Homicide Hotel
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/29/2015
A maid finds a woman dead in Room 305 of an Oregon hotel. Her grieving husband reveals an open relationship- was an affair to blame? Or had this Ivy League grad fallen into a life of drugs? Then a prostitute comes forward with a shocking revelation.
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#21 - Ride With the Devil
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/5/2017
Twenty-six-year-old car dealer Christopher O'Brien takes a stranger for a test drive and never returns; investigators wonder whether O'Brien's criminal past has caught up with him.
#22 - The Skating Death
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/4/2014
24-year-old Vietnamese-American Thien Minh Ly is found stabbed on the Tustin High School tennis courts. There is almost no evidence, and the case runs cold. Until detectives catch wind of a letter revealing the shocking truth.
#23 - Deadly Divorce
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2015
A Milwaukee mother is murdered in 1981. Her sons describe a masked man with a ponytail fleeing the home. Was it her bitter cop ex-husband? Or a neighbor who claims his gun was stolen? Police make a shocking arrest, but some have doubts to this day.
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#24 - Daddy Dearest
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/27/2014
A mother is killed in her bedroom, and her teenage daughter confesses to the crime.
#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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