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== [[Fan Works]] ==

{{quote|If you did commit the perfect crime, nobody would ever find out - so how could anyone possibly know that there weren't perfect crimes?

And as soon as you looked at it that way, you realized that perfect crimes probably got committed all the time, and the coroner marked it down as death by natural causes, or the newspaper reported that the shop had never been very profitable and had finally gone out of business... }}

** ''CSI'' recycled this plot to good effect.

** So did ''[[Bones]]''.

** This was also the plot for Jerry Orbach's last episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'', where two (rich) women killed each other's husbands. One of them got off because they didn't have any hard evidence.

* ''[[The Postman Always Rings Twice]]'': A woman and her lover kill her husband and get away with it.

* ''[[Mr. Brooks]]'': The eponymous character's serial murders are exhaustively careful

* ''[[The Whole Nine Yards]]'': A slight subversion as the murderer makes the police think that ''he'' is the dead man.

* ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair]]'': An [[Eccentric Millionaire]] directs a bank robbery.

* The Korean film ''[[Memories of Murder]]'' about a real serial killer who was never caught. The film portrays this as a result of police incompetence rather than a diabolical master of crime.

* Parodied in the Bill Murray movie ''[[Quick Change (film)|Quick Change]]'', in which the highly complex robbery the characters plan and execute in the movie really ''is'' perfect, and goes off flawlessly. The [[A Simple Plan|relatively simple matter]] of the getaway, on the other hand, becomes a complicated and mishap-strewn nightmare, until the characters are reduced to wandering around the streets of Queens in the middle of the night with millions of dollars taped to their skin under their clothes trying desperately to hail a taxi or catch a bus.

* Although not the main point of the movie, ''[[Match Point]]'' features a perfect crime, albeit {{spoiler|one achieved only thanks to a lot of luck}}.

* ''[[Ocean's Eleven|Oceans Eleven]]'' (All versions and sequels.)

* ''[[Film/Fracture 2007|Fracture]]'': Getting away with murder. Almost.

* The eponymous character from ''[[Dexter]]'' is quite proficient at this: tranquilizing his victims and binding them in a room completely covered in plastic sheeting. He then kills them with an edged weapon to avoid ballistic evidence, often while wearing a face shield, rubber gloves and apron, and saws them into pieces which he [[Disposing of a Body|disposes of]] in biodegradable trash bags and dumps into a strong ocean current. The victims then all appear to be missing persons cases and are rarely ever mentioned again. It helps that he's a blood spatter analyst; it's his job to figure out other people's crimes, and he got training in the matter from his cop foster father.

** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in Season 2, when divers stumble upon one of his dump sites, leading to an investigation that comes uncomfortably close to exposing him and forces him to improve his method.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** {{spoiler|Luke Atmey's plan to murder Kane Bullard used the Double Jeopardy law to get him convicted for being [[Phantom Thief|Mask*DeMasque]], because since the theft and murder occurred at the same time, being declared guilty of one legally makes him innocent of the other.}}

** Third case, third game. Kill someone. Plant evidence. {{spoiler|Re-enact crime to manipulate witness testimony.}} [[Serial Escalation|Impersonate lawyer, represent accused, do intentionally poor job]]. The only reasons it fails are because a guilty verdict ''can'' in rare instances be overturned, and they decided to impersonate someone with quite a reputation.

* A minor version in Persona3 where you can intentionally not catch the Junpei peeping at the girls at the hot springs as the female Main Character. The boys will be quite happy to see the girls bathe and not get in trouble for once.

 

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