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The Perfect Murder

Season 1 2014
TV-14

  • 2014-04-21T02:00:00Z on Investigation Discovery
  • 45m
  • 4h 18m (6 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime, Reality
"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. For the killer, it’s THE PERFECT MURDER. Detectives hit dead end after dead end, and wrong suspects are discarded. But one new clue can lead to another and the cold case suddenly gets hot. Truth is, it’s the perfect murder... until it’s not.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2014-04-21T02:00:00Z

1x01 Heart Shot

Series Premiere

1x01 Heart Shot

  • 2014-04-21T02:00:00Z43m

In 1999, 47-year-old Sunday school teacher Miriam Illes is shot by a sniper through her kitchen window in Williamsport, PA. Convoluted evidence and anonymous handwritten letters throw them off the scent, but the killer is right under their noses.

2014-04-28T02:00:00Z

1x02 Daddy Dearest

1x02 Daddy Dearest

  • 2014-04-28T02:00:00Z43m

In 1985, pretty 23-year-old new mom, Linda Brown, is shot dead in her bedroom, and her 14-year-old stepdaughter Cinnamon confesses to the crime. The case is as good as closed, but detectives suspect there's more to this twisted family than meets the eye, and they're right.

2014-05-05T02:00:00Z

1x03 Skating Death

1x03 Skating Death

  • 2014-05-05T02:00:00Z43m

In 1996, 24-year-old Vietnamese-American graduate student Thien Minh Ly goes out rollerblading on the night of the Superbowl. He never returns and is later 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.

At 11:00 PM on July 9th, 2004, 27-year-old graduate student and young father Jarrod Davidson is shot by a high-powered rifle outside his apartment in Santa Barbara, CA; lying 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.

2014-05-19T02:00:00Z

1x05 Millionaire Murder

1x05 Millionaire Murder

  • 2014-05-19T02:00:00Z43m

In 1994, 55-year-old Newport Beach millionaire Bill McLaughlin is shot dead in his mansion. The emotional killing and keys found in the door indicate a killer in his close circle but it takes detectives 15 years to get to the bottom of this twisted case.

2014-05-26T02:00:00Z

1x06 Frozen Killer

1x06 Frozen Killer

  • 2014-05-26T02:00:00Z43m

In 2004, 31-year-old Julie Keown dies of antifreeze poisoning in Waltham, MA. 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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