7.4/1017 votes#1 - 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, stabbed to death. What happened here is a dark tale of love, lust and violence.
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6.7/1022 votes#2 - Gone Girl
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/2018
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.
Director: N/A
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7.5/1026 votes#3 - Mother Dear
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/2018
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, Connecticut. The investigation will lead detectives into a dark world of abuse, sexual obsession and lies.
Director: Kevin Kaufman
Writer: N/A
6.7/1019 votes#4 - A Motive Most Bizarre
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/2018
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.
Director: N/A
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5.8/1017 votes#5 - Defenseless
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/2018
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. What horror has befallen this couple? The answer will challenge even experienced investigators.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1018 votes#6 - Whidbey Island Mystery
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2018
After Christmas in 2003, on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington State, Russel Douglas is found shot in the head, in his car along a deserted road. It's the start of a case that will take a decade to solve, and leave many with lingering questions.
Director: N/A
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7.0/1016 votes#7 - The Green-Eyed Monster
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/2018
In December 1998, Peter Theriault, 51, fails to arrive for his shift at a car plant in Commerce City, California. Pete hasn't missed a day of work in almost three decades. Friends and family immediately suspect something is very wrong.
Director: N/A
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7.2/1013 votes#8 - Vanished in Vegas
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/2018
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.
Director: N/A
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6.4/1016 votes#9 - 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 holds fast to their secrets.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.8/1013 votes#10 - The Last Blitz
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 9/27/2018
Marlin Barnes, a popular linebacker for the University of Miami 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.
Director: N/A
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The Best Episodes of The Perfect Murder Season 5
Every episode of The Perfect Murder Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Perfect Murder Season 5!
"The Perfect Murder" brings viewers some of the most diabolical, perplexing murder cases to land on detectives’ desks – the kind of cases that make...
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Bizarre Love Triangle" is the best rated episode of "The Perfect Murder" season 5. It scored 7.4/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/26/2018. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "Gone Girl".