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* [[Long Runner]] that it is, listing every single time this has happened in ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' and its various spinoffs would take up far more space than the database has. In fact, it'd probably be easier to list the [[Crime and Punishment Series]] that '''don't''' have this happen on a semi-regular basis.
* In ''[[Wiseguy]]'', Vinnie's mother thinks he is a criminal, when he's actually working undercover for the Organized Crime Bureau. {{spoiler|She eventually finds out the truth... but then worries that he's gradually becoming more and more like the criminals around him.}}
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode ''[["The Ultimate Computer]]",'' Thethe "M-5" is a living computer which commits murder, but Dr. Richard Daystrom, its creator, defends the events as "accidents." Dr. McCoy says that "even when a child kills, a parent will usually continue to defend that child."
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' dealt with this in season three: {{spoiler|it turns out that the perpetrator of the Galen murders was a mentally impaired man who didn't really understand what he was doing. When his father found out, he covered it up on the grounds that his son wasn't a bad person, and he made the killer send the victims' kids stuffed animals every year on the anniversary of the murders so that his son wouldn't forget that he's capable of terrible things and would be careful never to let it happen again}}.
** In a season one episode, Gideon brutally deconstructs this trope with a father who continually makes excuses for his serial killer son.
** Also appears in another episode of season one where a mother easily accepts that her son's murders aren't her fault. {{spoiler|It was her fault, but it wasn't her son's murders. She was the killer.}}
* An episode of ''[[The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' has Kimble reuniting with his family. His father and sister are handling his situation well, but his brother is bitter over his difficulties holding a job once his bosses find out he's the brother of a supposed fugitive murderer.
* ''[[Day Break]]'': During one of the [[Groundhog Day Loop|repeating days]] Detective Hopper visits his mother's home to further the investigation by digging up information on his dead father. When she chastizeschastises him for not visiting her more often he explains that he's too busy at the moment since he's wanted for murder in Los Angeles, [[Frame-Up|although he didn't actually do it]]. Her Response? "Well of course - I didn't raise no murderer!"
* Ghoulishly subverted on an episode of ''[[CSI]]'' when a murder suspect mistakenly thinks that his son is dead. When the victim's body is found bricked up in his house, he nonchalantly attempts to pin the entire crime on his son...unaware that the son is alive and well and watching the interrogation through a one-way mirror. This leads to an [[I Have No Son|I Have No Father]] moment from the son.
 
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