The Perfect Murder
The Perfect Murder

The Perfect Murder

2014 5 Seasons 49 Episodes ⭐ 8.3 Crime Documentary

"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. 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. The truth is that it is the perfect murder -- until it's not.

"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. 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. The truth is that it is the perfect murder -- until it's not.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Heart Shot

In 1999, 47-year-old Sunday school teacher Miriam Illes is shot by a sniper through her kitchen window in Williamsport,

EP 2

Daddy Dearest

In 1985, pretty 23-year-old new mom, Linda Brown, is shot dead in her bedroom, and her 14-year-old stepdaughter Cinnamon

EP 3

Skating Death

In 1996, 24-year-old Vietnamese-American graduate student Thien Minh Ly goes out rollerblading on the night of the Super

EP 4

The Curious Case of the Persian Violet

At 11:00 PM on July 9th, 2004, 27-year-old graduate student and young father Jarrod Davidson is shot by a high-powered r

EP 5

Millionaire Murder

In 1994, 55-year-old Newport Beach millionaire Bill McLaughlin is shot dead in his mansion. The emotional killing and ke

EP 6

Frozen Killer

In 2004, 31-year-old Julie Keown dies of antifreeze poisoning in Waltham, MA. Detectives rule out suicide and accidental

EP 1

Ring of Fire

A Bronx, NY, house fire reveals a charred body inside. Police learn it's 20-year-old Kimberly Antonakos, and she's been

EP 2

Kosher Killer

An Orthodox Jewish mother finds her daughter strangled to death in their Staten Island home. Her Muslim ex-boyfriend had

EP 3

Vanishing Act

An Exxon oil executive goes missing in front of his New Jersey home. Police fear a medical emergency until a ransom note

EP 4

Death of a Salesman

A business owner is shot to death outside his Bronx office. Police find he was deep in debt. Did his wife kill him or th

EP 5

Deadly Divorce

When a woman is murdered in Milwaukee in 1981, her sons describe a masked man with a ponytail fleeing from the home, and

EP 6

Murder on the Cape

When a single mother is stabbed to death in her home in Cape Cod, MA. The numerous suspects include her child's father,

EP 7

Family Plot

When an Orlando woman goes missing 15 years after the departure of her abusive husband, investigators wonder if her grie

EP 8

Kill Thy Neighbor

It's a brutal scene when Karen Gregory is raped and stabbed in her boyfriend's Gulfport, FL, home. After Detective Larry

EP 9

Homicide Hotel

A maid finds a woman dead in Room 305 of an Oregon hotel. Her grieving husband reveals an open relationship - was an aff

EP 10

Bedroom Basher

A young pregnant woman is raped and bludgeoned in California. It looks like the work of a serial killer called "The Bedr

EP 1

The Body in the Swamp

Miami businessman Henry Diaz goes missing the night before a family vacation. His business success has earned him many e

EP 2

Horror in Harlem

Middle-aged couple Carmen Quinones and Ruben Frederick are brutally stabbed to death in their East Harlem apartment next

EP 3

Driving with the Devil

A car pulls into a Long Island gas station with a mother shot dead in the front seat. Her husband claims a stranger shot

EP 4

Last Dance

Two beautiful dancers are strangled in their West Harlem apartment. The case will lead cops all across New York City, wh

EP 5

Death and the Maiden

27-year-old mother Dana Satterfield is found brutally raped and strangled in her South Carolina hair salon. Detectives s

EP 6

The Honeymoon Killers

A Belgian honeymoon comes to a tragic end when a freak car accident leads to a tragic death. The investigation takes pol

EP 7

Silent Killer

Diane Girts is found dead in the bathtub of her home adjoining her husband's funeral home, and nobody can determine exac

EP 8

No Happy Ending

44-year-old masseuse Larissa Macriello vanishes from her Miami apartment in June of 2013. Police find there's a dangerou

EP 9

Murder By The Book

In 1988, a Burbank couple is shot in their own home – husband Dan Montecalvo survives, but wife Carol dies in the hosp

EP 10

Murder-in-Law

When Dallas mother Nancy Lyon dies of a mysterious illness in 1991, her wealthy father tells police she was poisoned by

EP 11

Disappearing Act

California real estate developer Jana Koklich vanishes in the summer of 2000. Police suspect her job led her into danger

EP 12

Prescription for Murder

Wisconsin police are shocked in 2010 to find an elderly couple brutally murdered in their home. When family and neighbor

EP 13

Curtain Call

California student Julie Kibuishi is found dead in the bed of her friend, Sam Herr – a decorated war hero. But Sam is

EP 1

A Shot in the Dark

New York City fashion photographer Joel Schoenfeld is shot dead in his Greenwich Village studio one cold January morning

EP 2

Fade to Black

Film director Adrienne Shelly is discovered hanging by a bed sheet from the shower rod in her bathroom. It looks like a

EP 3

Garden of Evil

Daniel Ott is just one day from moving with his girlfriend when an intruder shoots him dead with a shotgun. A stunning c

EP 4

Ride with the Devil

26-year-old car dealer Christopher O'Brien takes a strange man for a test drive and never returns. Did O'Brien's crimina

EP 5

Body in the Glades

42-year-old Miami mother Raquel Calderin vanishes without a trace on her way home from work in 2012. The investigation w

EP 6

The Devil Made Me Do It

Robert Schwartz, a father of three, is murdered brutally in his own home - stabbed 32 times with an X carved into his ne

EP 7

Murder Well Done

When 39-year-old Dawn Viens goes missing in 2009, her husband assumes she ran away to escape her problems. But the inves

EP 8

Death in the Family

Randy Scheffield's family finds him dead in his bed, and their first thought is a heart attack. But detectives will slow

EP 9

Love and Death

Atlanta pre-school teacher Julie Love goes missing just a week after getting engaged to her boyfriend Mark. Detectives u

EP 10

Football Fatale

Star Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor is shot dead by an intruder in his Miami home. And when it comes to the rich

EP 1

Bizarre Love Triangle

Ann Anastasi returns home from shopping to find her husband, Anthony, lifeless in bed, a gun beside him. Police soon fin

EP 2

Gone Girl

The body of 20-year old student Sandra Bonaventure is discovered in a garbage bag, on the sidewalk in New York City. The

EP 3

Mother Dear

The strangled body of 47-year-old mother, Joyce Aparo, is found off the side of the road 70 miles from her home in Glast

EP 4

A Motive Most Bizarre

Jeffrey Locker, a 52 year-old successful motivational speaker, is found stabbed to death in East Harlem. Detectives firs

EP 5

Defenseless

A car races up to the ER of a Westchester hospital. Carlos Perez-Olivo, the driver, has been shot in his side and his wi

EP 6

Whidbey Island Mystery

After Christmas in 2003, on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington State, Russel Douglas is found shot in the head,

EP 7

The Green-Eyed Monster

In December 1998, Peter Theriault, 51, fails to arrive for his shift at a car plant in Commerce City, California. Pete h

EP 8

Vanished in Vegas

Multi-millionaire Las Vegas real estate developer Ron Rudin goes missing. In order to find him, detectives will trace tw

EP 9

Jump Shot

Hollywood "golden boy" Gavin Smith a 20th Century Fox executive and former star UCLA basketball player goes missing. For

EP 10

The Last Blitz

Marlin Barnes, a popular linebacker for the University of Miami and his friend, Timwanika Lumpkins, are beaten to death

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