The Murder After

A rather different sort of Fatal Attraction.

DI Andrew Smith is in a bar. He meets Billie Jones, a rather attractive woman. They have a few drinks and a talk. A few more drinks, then a Ugandan discussion.

They finish and Smith goes to bed. He wakes up in the morning -- with Billie's blood-covered corpse. He's just become the prime suspect for her murder...

That's one of a number of scenarios.

See Death By Sex, Out With a Bang.

Anime and Manga

 * In the Weiss Kreuz Dramatic Precious Drama CD collection, Yoji has this happen to him. As he's been suffering from PTSD and developed a tendency to freak out and start choking his partners during sex, he's not at all sure he didn't kill her.

Comic Books

 * Marv for Goldie's murder in Sin City.
 * Jack Point from The Simping Detective has this happen to him. Naturally, almost everyone he knows happens to visit him that morning...

Film
"Fletch: [Deadpan] It was good, but not THAT good!"
 * Seen from the other side on The Godfather II, where a politician is drugged and left in a hotel room with a dead hooker so the mob can have him in their pocket.
 * In Barton Fink,
 * In Fletch Lives, the titular character sleeps with an attractive lawyer only to find her dead when he wakes up, leading to this priceless reaction:


 * Happens in the beginning of Red Corner, starring Richard Gere. Also, the whole plot of this movie is based on this trope.
 * This is how Dark City starts.
 * In the Humphrey Bogart film In a Lonely Place, Bogart's character invites a woman to his apartment to summarize a book for him. Shortly after she leaves, she is found murdered, and he becomes the prime suspect. Despite what the woman and the police initially assume, "summarizing a book" is really all that happens between them.

Literature

 * Happens to Maureen at the start of Robert Heinlein's To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
 * In Framed, an online novella from The Otherworld universe, Nick wakes up in bed with a mangled corpse as part of a blackmail setup. The idea is that as a werewolf, no one will believe that he didn't kill her to get off during sex.

Live Action TV

 * CSI, Warrick and a stripper who is found dead in his car.
 * Happened in an earlier episode to Nick with a recurring character (who was also a prostitute). By all means it shouldn't have been an issue (he informs his superiors that he was there and does everything by the book) but then.
 * Subverted in another episode, where
 * And it is used straight again as a tertiary case in another episode, where a dead prostitute is found next to a man who claims to not remember a thing..
 * Likewise in an episode of NCIS, where a murderess seduces a man in order to let him be found in the bed with her victim. It looks pretty bad.
 * A non-cop example: the entire plot of the BBC 1 five-part drama Criminal Justice.
 * Harmony on Angel woke up with a man drained of all blood after Angel instituted a zero-tolerance policy on drinking human blood. Her attempts to clear her name were..somewhat inept.
 * Played for laughs in an episode of Reno 911. The male members of the squad find Garcia in bed with a dead woman. Everybody starts to panic, then Dangle starts ordering the others to clean up the room, using bleach to eliminate forensic evidence and preparing to load up the body. Finally the woman pops up, and everyone yells "Surprise!" It turns out to be a surprise birthday party and cruel prank all in one.
 * Happens in Stargate SG 1. Cameron Mitchell is framed for the murder for an alien scientist, including memory implantation so that even he thinks he did it.
 * A lot of episodes of the Law and Orders use this.
 * Law and Order Criminal Intent: A guy wakes up with the corpse of a woman he'd just met
 * Law and Order SVU: A guy wakes up to find his head split open and a dead woman in his bed
 * Happens to Walter Skinner in The X Files. Except it turns out the woman who's found dead next to him is in fact a succubus...
 * Happens to Lex Luthor in an episode of Smallville.
 * Faked as part of a con in the Leverage episode "The Morning After Job".