5.8/1017 votesLoading...#1 - 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.
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5.8/1013 votesLoading...#2 - 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.
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6.4/1016 votesLoading...#3 - 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.
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6.7/1018 votesLoading...#4 - Kosher Killer
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/3/2015
An Orthodox Jewish mother finds her daughter strangled to death in their Staten Island home. Her Muslim ex-boyfriend had been stalking her. Computer techs uncover a dangerous online dating habit. But the real killer was someone much closer to home.
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6.7/1022 votesLoading...#5 - 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.
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6.7/1019 votesLoading...#6 - 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.
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6.8/1028 votesLoading...#7 - Heart Shot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/20/2014
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.
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6.9/1022 votesLoading...#8 - Driving with the Devil
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/2016
A car pulls into a Long Island gas station with a mother shot dead in the front seat. Her husband claims a stranger shot her on the highway, but he's foggy on the details. Is this a case of deadly road rage, or does he know more than he's telling?
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7.0/1027 votesLoading...#9 - Skating Death
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/4/2014
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.
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7.0/1021 votesLoading...#10 - Homicide Hotel
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 7/20/2015
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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7.0/1031 votesLoading...#11 - The Body in the Swamp
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2016
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.
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7.0/1025 votesLoading...#12 - Disappearing Act
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 8/10/2016
California real estate developer Jana Koklich vanishes in the summer of 2000. Police suspect her job led her into danger, until a local pastor comes forward with a shocking confession. Someone is lying, but can detectives figure it out in time?
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7.0/1022 votesLoading...#13 - Love and Death
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/9/2017
Atlanta pre-school teacher Julie Love goes missing just a week after getting engaged to her boyfriend Mark. Detectives uncover numerous suspects, but the evil truth is worse than they ever could have imagined...
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7.0/1024 votesLoading...#14 - Football Fatale
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 8/16/2017
Star Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor is shot dead by an intruder in his Miami home. And when it comes to the rich and famous, it seems like everybody has a motive...
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7.0/1016 votesLoading...#15 - 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.
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7.1/1021 votesLoading...#16 - Vanishing Act
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/8/2015
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.
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7.2/1027 votesLoading...#17 - Millionaire Murder
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/18/2014
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.
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7.2/1024 votesLoading...#18 - Deadly Divorce
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 7/1/2015
When a woman is murdered in Milwaukee in 1981, her sons describe a masked man with a ponytail fleeing from the home, and police investigate the victim's rancorous ex-husband and a neighbor who claims his gun was stolen. Police make a shocking arrest, but some have doubts to this day.
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7.2/1022 votesLoading...#19 - Death and the Maiden
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/29/2016
27-year-old mother Dana Satterfield is found brutally raped and strangled in her South Carolina hair salon. Detectives soon discover they're chasing a dangerous killer who may not be finished.
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7.2/1021 votesLoading...#20 - Body in the Glades
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 7/12/2017
42-year-old Miami mother Raquel Calderin vanishes without a trace on her way home from work in 2012. The investigation will lead detectives deep into a disturbing family picture, and the truth will haunt them for years to come.
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7.2/1013 votesLoading...#21 - 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.
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7.3/1022 votesLoading...#22 - Kill Thy Neighbor
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 7/16/2015
It's a brutal scene when Karen Gregory is raped and stabbed in her boyfriend's Gulfport, FL, home. After Detective Larry Tosi enlists the help of his firefighter friend, George Lewis, to solve the crime, the case takes a shocking turn.
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7.3/1024 votesLoading...#23 - Horror in Harlem
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2016
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?
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7.3/1017 votesLoading...#24 - Last Dance
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2016
Two beautiful dancers are strangled in their West Harlem apartment. The case will lead cops all across New York City, where dreams of fame and stardom can drive young people to desperate measures, and devour them along the way.
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7.3/1024 votesLoading...#25 - Murder By The Book
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 7/27/2016
In 1988, a Burbank couple is shot in their own home – husband Dan Montecalvo survives, but wife Carol dies in the hospital. The investigation will reveal a dubious past, and a scheming killer who almost got away with the perfect murder.
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The Worst Episodes of The Perfect Murder
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Defenseless" is the worst rated episode of "The Perfect Murder". It scored 5.8/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/23/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Last Blitz".