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== Newspaper Comics ==
* One ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' Crimestopper panel simply stated "When a crime is not reported, and no arrests are made, a "perfect crime" has been committed."
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* The ''perfect'' crime? We'll never know, will we?▼
** There was the Zodiac/Jack The Ripper Murders. No one ever knew who was the killer.▼
* [[The Man Who Never Was]] : in [[Real Life]] it worked so well that they had to [[Rule of Drama|throw a minor wrench in it]] to make a movie.▼
* The TV show Masterminds re-enacts real life cases, some of which might be considered the perfect crime. One episode was even titled "The Perfect Score" and had an FBI agent admitting that the crime was perfect. There were only a few clues that went straight to dead ends. The only reason the criminal was caught was that he tried to pull it off again, and the FBI noticed how similar the second (failed) crime was.▼
* It was [[wikipedia:Leopold and Loeb|Leopold and Loeb]]'s goal to commit the perfect crime when they murdered fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks. They were bright young things who thought they might be [[Ubermensch]]en. They made about a frillion mistakes. Just to demonstrate how far from perfect this attempt was, some of the more notable ones are: Leaving the body right by railroad tracks, where it was quickly discovered. Leaving a pair of eyeglasses belonging to one of them with an unusual hinge mechanism that had been bought by ''three'' people in the area. And on questioning claiming that they had been out in their car, even though their ''chauffeur'' was repairing the car that night. Being seen together in their rented car at the time and place the kidnapping had occurred. Yeah, Moriarty these guys were not.▼
* In an early HBO special, [[George Carlin]] joked about what he considered the perfect crime; [[Grievous Harm with a Body|You pick up one person and use them to beat another person to death.]] [[Insane Troll Logic|They both die and there's no murder weapon!]]▼
{{quote|'''"Cop":''' [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much|Seems like a pedestrian accident to me. Must've been moving at quite a clip.]]}}▼
* Two Malaysian men escaped hanging for drug trafficking because they were [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7876221.stm twin brothers], and the courts couldn't distinguish between the guilty brother and the innocent brother.▼
* Averted in Real Life according to David Simon's book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Rule #10 in Homicide: There is too such a thing as a perfect murder. Always has been, and anyone who tries to prove otherwise merely proves himself naive, romantic, and a fool who is ignorant of the first nine rules.▼
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In one of the shorts that ''[[The Simpsons]]'' originated from, Bart claims that stealing freshly baked cookies and blaming it on Maggie, who is pre-verbal and can't defend herself, is the perfect crime. After eating an entire sheet of cookies, getting chocolate smeared all over his face, he is caught and his attempt to scapegoat his sister understandably fail. As Bart gets taken away for punishment (stating that there is no such thing as a perfect crime), Maggie steals ''one'' cookie - whose theft will be blamed on Bart if it's noticed at all.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The ''perfect'' crime? We'll never know, will we?
▲** There was the Zodiac/Jack The Ripper Murders. No one ever knew who was the killer.
▲* [[The Man Who Never Was]] : in [[Real Life]] it worked so well that they had to [[Rule of Drama|throw a minor wrench in it]] to make a movie.
▲* The TV show Masterminds re-enacts real life cases, some of which might be considered the perfect crime. One episode was even titled "The Perfect Score" and had an FBI agent admitting that the crime was perfect. There were only a few clues that went straight to dead ends. The only reason the criminal was caught was that he tried to pull it off again, and the FBI noticed how similar the second (failed) crime was.
▲* It was [[wikipedia:Leopold and Loeb|Leopold and Loeb]]'s goal to commit the perfect crime when they murdered fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks. They were bright young things who thought they might be [[Ubermensch]]en. They made about a frillion mistakes. Just to demonstrate how far from perfect this attempt was, some of the more notable ones are: Leaving the body right by railroad tracks, where it was quickly discovered. Leaving a pair of eyeglasses belonging to one of them with an unusual hinge mechanism that had been bought by ''three'' people in the area. And on questioning claiming that they had been out in their car, even though their ''chauffeur'' was repairing the car that night. Being seen together in their rented car at the time and place the kidnapping had occurred. Yeah, Moriarty these guys were not.
▲* In an early HBO special, [[George Carlin]] joked about what he considered the perfect crime; [[Grievous Harm with a Body|You pick up one person and use them to beat another person to death.]] [[Insane Troll Logic|They both die and there's no murder weapon!]]
▲{{quote|'''"Cop":''' [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much|Seems like a pedestrian accident to me. Must've been moving at quite a clip.]]}}
▲* Two Malaysian men escaped hanging for drug trafficking because they were [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7876221.stm twin brothers], and the courts couldn't distinguish between the guilty brother and the innocent brother.
▲* Averted in Real Life according to David Simon's book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Rule #10 in Homicide: There is too such a thing as a perfect murder. Always has been, and anyone who tries to prove otherwise merely proves himself naive, romantic, and a fool who is ignorant of the first nine rules.
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