The essential episodes of The Perfect Murder
Watch these 12 in order and you've got The Perfect Murder — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A Sunday school teacher is shot through her kitchen window; evidence and anonymous handwritten letters lead police in the wrong direction.
- 02
When Robert Schwartz, a father of three, dies in a brutal murder in his own home made to look like a ritualistic killing, the investigation uncovers a killer much closer to home.
- 03
After 39-year-old Dawn Viens goes missing, her chef husband, David, reports she ran away to escape her problems; the investigation leads detectives to an unexpected killer who disposed of Viens' body in an unimaginable way.
- 04
Atlanta preschool teacher Julie Love goes missing just a week after getting engaged to boyfriend Mark; detectives find numerous suspects in the teacher's disappearance, but the truth turns out to be far worse than they could have imagined.
- 05
Ann Anastasi returns home from shopping to find her husband, Anthony, lifeless in bed, a gun beside him. Police soon find a second victim, Jacqueline Riggs, in the basement, stabbed to death. What happened here is a dark tale of love, lust and violence.
- 06
The body of 20-year old student Sandra Bonaventure is discovered in a garbage bag, on the sidewalk in New York City. The trail of clues will eventually lead detectives to a cold-hearted killer, with an astonishing talent for deception.
- 07
The strangled body of 47-year-old mother Joyce Aparo is found off the side of the road 70 miles from her home in Glastonbury, Conn. The investigation will lead detectives into a dark world of abuse, sexual obsession and lies.
- 08
Jeffrey Locker, a 52 year-old successful motivational speaker, is found stabbed to death in East Harlem. Detectives first suspect Locker was in the wrong place at wrong time. The truth, they will learn, is far more complex and shocking.
- 09
After Christmas in 2003, Russel Douglas is found shot in the head in his car along a deserted road on Whidbey Island off the coast of Washington State. It's the start of a case that will take a decade to solve, and leave many with lingering questions.
- 10
Multi-millionaire Las Vegas real estate developer Ron Rudin goes missing. In order to find him, detectives will trace twisted a path filled with haunting spirits, dark obsession, and greed.
- 11
Hollywood "Golden Boy" Gavin Smith a 20th Century Fox executive and former star UCLA basketball player goes missing. For years, his family and detectives search tirelessly for answers, but a group of heartless characters holds fast to their secrets.
- 12
University of Miami linebacker Marlin Barnes and his friend Timwanika Lumpkins are beaten to death in Marlin's apartment. As detectives search for the vicious killer, the crime sends shockwaves through the campus and community.
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