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This trope describes situations in which a character has been seeking the culprit in a murder for a long, long time (in a television context, usually at least a season's worth of episodes). The character finally locates the murderer, only to find that it was a hired hit. They know who pulled the trigger, but they need to learn who hired the assassin.
Then, before the killer can be questioned, he's taken out of the scene: he escapes custody, or is killed trying to escape, or bites down on a [[Cyanide Pill]], or otherwise arranges things so that the murder still goes essentially unsolved, despite the killer's discovery. Particularly common is for them to give in, say, "[[His Name Is]]" and then a sniper [[Boom! Headshot!|pops his head]]... [[Your Head Asplode|sometimes right off his shoulders]].
Might be expanded to any form of unsolved mystery, and indeed non-criminal mysteries as well.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Lee Harvey Oswald. [[Who Shot JFK?|Shot JFK]], but was killed by Jack Ruby before he could be interrogated further. Perhaps if he had not died so soon afterwards, less people would speculate as to if he did it on behalf another person or organization, who perhaps put out a [[Contract On the Hitman]] to avoid him ratting them out to the authorities, or any of the other theories behind JFK's assassination.
** Became [[Freakier Than Fiction]] when ''Ruby'' died before going to trial, making theorists expand their theories to include ''his'' death.
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