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{{quote|''"[[LocardsLocard's Theory|There is no one in the world who can be somewhere and leave without a trace]]. [[Pluto|Any man who could isn't human]]."''|'''Inspector Lunge''', ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]''}}
 
Murder, Robbery, Blackmail, Kidnapping. Some criminals don't leave [[Criminal Mind Games|confusing riddles and clues]] for detectives to find. Some criminals leave ''nothing''.
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* 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}}.
* ''[[Murder By Numbers]]''. Epic failure, no thanks to [[Fair Cop|Cassie]].
* ''[[OceansOcean's Eleven (Film)|Oceans Eleven]]'' (All versions and sequels.)
* ''[[Film/Fracture 2007|Fracture]]'': Getting away with murder. Almost.
* ''[[Film/Rope|Rope]]'', another [[Alfred Hitchcock]] film, based on the story of Leopold and Loeb, below.
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* [[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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb: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|Ubermenschen]]. 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.]]}}
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