The Perfect Murder Episode Rating Graph

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.

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...

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 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?

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.

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...

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.

A Belgian honeymoon comes to a tragic end when a freak car accident leads to a tragic death. The investigation takes police down a rabbit hole of violence and deceit, culminating in an international manhunt for a calculating killer.

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.

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.

When 39-year-old Dawn Viens goes missing in 2009, her husband assumes she ran away to escape her problems. But the investigation will lead detectives to a most unexpected killer. They've heard of disposing of a body, but never like this...

New York City fashion photographer Joel Schoenfeld is shot dead in his Greenwich Village studio one cold January morning. Joel appears to have it all, but detectives will eventually uncover a dark secret and a twisted tale of revenge...

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

Diane Girts is found dead in the bathtub of her home adjoining her husband's funeral home, and nobody can determine exactly how she died. As the case unfolds, detectives will uncover troubling clues pointing to a cunning and dangerous killer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Bronx, NY, 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.

Film director Adrienne Shelly is discovered hanging by a bed sheet from the shower rod in her bathroom. It looks like a suicide, but her husband insists it was murder. And detectives are starting to believe him...

Wisconsin police are shocked in 2010 to find an elderly couple brutally murdered in their home. When family and neighbors start receiving death threats, police fear the killer isn't done. Can they solve the case before they strike again?

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.

Daniel Ott is just one day from moving with his girlfriend when an intruder shoots him dead with a shotgun. A stunning coincidence will lead the investigation into the heart of one of the most dangerous criminal rings in the country.

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?

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.

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?

When Dallas mother Nancy Lyon dies of a mysterious illness in 1991, her wealthy father tells police she was poisoned by her own husband. But the case is far from closed, and the investigation will uncover family secrets with shocking implications.