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* In ''[[Rivers Edge]]'', a teenager leaves the naked body of his murdered girlfriend at the titular river's edge and shows it to his group of friends, who then swear to silence.
* ''Whispers in the Dark'': Deborah Kara Unger is killed by Alan Alda and her naked body is later discovered hanging from the ceiling.
* In ''[[Angel Heart]]'', Mickey Rourke discovers the naked body of Lisa Bonet, and it turns out {{spoiler|he murdered her and suppressed the memory}}. The [[
* In ''[[Underworld Evolution]]'', Selene kills Andreas Tanis' vampire concubines. After she leaves, he dumps their naked bodies in the dungeon.
* In a rare male example, the blind butler in ''[[Murder By Death]]'' is discovered sitting at a desk, naked. When Dora Charleston wonders aloud what anyone would want with a naked body, her husband [[I Love the Dead|whispers into her ear]]. She smirks incredulously and exclaims, "Oh, that's... tacky!"
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' Book One, ''Storm Front,'' begins with Harry called to a crime scene involving a naked dead
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]] famously said, "There is nothing more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman."
* The fully illustrated ''Who Killed Amanda Palmer'' by Neil Gaiman.
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