The Perfect Murder: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: The Perfect Murder
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Crime
• Premiere date: 2014-04-20
• Final broadcast date listed: 2018-09-27
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Investigation Discovery
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 2500

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-04-20; final listed air date 2014-05-25; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2015-06-03; final listed air date 2015-08-05; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2016-06-01; final listed air date 2016-08-24; episode order: 13.
• Season 4: premiered 2017-06-14; final listed air date 2017-08-16; episode order: 10.
• Season 5: premiered 2018-07-26; final listed air date 2018-09-27; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Perfect Murder on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.