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.
A Sunday school teacher is shot through her kitchen window; evidence and anonymous handwritten letters lead police in the wrong direction.
A mother is killed in her bedroom, and her teenage daughter confesses to the crime.
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.
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?
A millionaire is shot to death in his mansion; it takes detectives 15 years to break the case.
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.
After a woman discovers her daughter strangled to death in their Staten Island home, computer technicians find out about a dangerous online dating habit, but the real killer is much closer to home.
A single mother is stabbed to death in her home one cold Cape Cod winter. Could it have been the father of her child - or his bitter wife? Or the young drug addicted girlfriend of her eccentric father? Everyone is a suspect in this small town.
A Bronx house fire reveals a charred body inside. Police learn it's 20-year-old Kimberly Antonakos, and she's been burned alive. Was it her ex-boyfriend, Psycho? Or is her father connected to the mob? The truth is far more tragic.
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.
Middle-aged couple Carmen Quinones and Ruben Frederick are brutally stabbed to death in their East Harlem apartment next to $16,000 in cash. Were they murdered for their money, or something far more personal?
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.
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.
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.
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, stabbed to death. What happened here is a dark tale of love, lust and violence.
The body of 20-year old student Sandra Bonaventure is discovered in a garbage bag, on the sidewalk in New York City. The trail of clues will eventually lead detectives to a cold-hearted killer, with an astonishing talent for deception.
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A business owner is shot to death outside his Bronx office. Police find he was deep in debt. Did his wife kill him or the insurance money? Or did he arrange a hit to provide for his family? Their only hope to solve the murder is to follow the money.
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.
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.
It's a brutal scene when Karen Gregory is raped and stabbed in her boyfriend's Florida home. Detective Larry Tosi enlists the help of his firefighter friend to solve the crime. What comes next is something no detective wants to hear.
A young pregnant woman is raped and bludgeoned in California. It looks like the work of a serial killer called "The Bedroom Basher." But when she regains her memory, she blames her husband. Is Kevin really the killer, or can DNA set him free?
The death of an Ivy League graduate in an Oregon hotel is investigated. Her husband claimed they had an open relationship, which offered the possibility of an affair-gone-bad; and drugs were also suspected of playing a part. However, the revelations of a prostitute changed the narrative.
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?
On Long Island, a man pulls into a gas station claiming his wife has been shot dead by a motorist on the highway, but he's foggy on the details.
Two dancers are strangled in their West Harlem apartment, leading police from place to place in New York City, where dreams of fame and stardom can drive young people to desperate measures and devour them along the way.
Twenty-seven-year-old mother Dana Satterfield is found raped and strangled in her South Carolina hair salon.
A Belgian honeymoon comes to a tragic end when a freak car accident results in a death. The investigation leads the police down a rabbit hole of violence and deceit, culminating in an international manhunt for a calculating killer.
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.
After 44-year-old masseuse Larissa Macriello vanishes from her Miami apartment, police are thrust into a world of sex, lies and secrets as they try to find her.
A 1988 incident in which a Burbank couple was shot during an alleged burglary is recounted. While the husband survived, his wife did not; and the investigation points to a scheming killer who came close to getting away with the crime.
When Nancy Lyon dies of a mysterious illness in 1991, her wealthy father tells police she was poisoned by her own husband.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When Robert Schwartz, a father of three, dies in a brutal murder in his own home made to look like a ritualistic killing, the investigation uncovers a killer much closer to home.
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.
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.
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.
Pro football player Sean Taylor is shot dead by an intruder in his Miami home.
The strangled body of 47-year-old mother Joyce Aparo is found off the side of the road 70 miles from her home in Glastonbury, Conn. The investigation will lead detectives into a dark world of abuse, sexual obsession and lies.
Jeffrey Locker, a 52 year-old successful motivational speaker, is found stabbed to death in East Harlem. Detectives first suspect Locker was in the wrong place at wrong time. The truth, they will learn, is far more complex and shocking.
A car races up to the ER of a Westchester hospital. Carlos Perez-Olivo, the driver, has been shot in his side and his wife, Peggy, has been shot in the head. Investigators seek to learn what happened.
After Christmas in 2003, Russel Douglas is found shot in the head in his car along a deserted road on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington State. It's the start of a case that will take a decade to solve, and leave many with lingering questions.
In December 1998, Peter Theriault, 51, fails to arrive for his shift at a car plant in Commerce City, Cal. Pete hasn't missed a day of work in almost three decades. Friends and family immediately suspect something is very wrong.
Multi-millionaire Las Vegas real estate developer Ron Rudin goes missing. In order to find him, detectives will trace twisted a path filled with haunting spirits, dark obsession, and greed.
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 holds fast to their secrets.
University of Miami linebacker Marlin Barnes and his friend Timwanika Lumpkins are beaten to death in Marlin's apartment. As detectives search for the vicious killer, the crime sends shockwaves through the campus and community.