About this season
"The Perfect Murder" brings viewers some of the most diabolical, perplexing murder cases to land on detectives’ desks – the kind of cases that make or break careers and provide fodder for Hollywood mystery movies. These ingenious killers are every detective’s worst nightmare. Whether by planting false evidence, or writing anonymous letters to police, these murderers will stop at nothing to stay one step ahead and get away with the perfect murder. Detectives hit dead end after dead end, and wrong suspects are discarded. But one new clue can lead to another and the cold case suddenly gets hot. The truth is that it is the perfect murder -- until it's not.
Episodes (10)
1. Ring of Fire
Aired 17 June 2015 • 44 min
A Bronx, NY, house fire reveals a charred body inside. Police learn it's 20-year-old Kimberly Antonakos, and she's been burned alive. Was it her ex-boyfriend, Psycho? Or is her father connected to the mob? The truth is far more tragic.
2. Kosher Killer
Aired 3 June 2015 • 44 min
An Orthodox Jewish mother finds her daughter strangled to death in their Staten Island home. Her Muslim ex-boyfriend had been stalking her. Computer techs uncover a dangerous online dating habit. But the real killer was someone much closer to home.
3. Vanishing Act
Aired 8 July 2015 • 44 min
An Exxon oil executive goes missing in front of his New Jersey home. Police fear a medical emergency until a ransom note arrives from an eco-terrorist organization. As the case stretches on, the kidnappers' behavior grows more and more baffling.
4. Death of a Salesman
Aired 24 June 2015 • 44 min
A business owner is shot to death outside his Bronx office. Police find he was deep in debt. Did his wife kill him or the insurance money? Or did he arrange a hit to provide for his family? Their only hope to solve the murder is to follow the money.
5. Deadly Divorce
Aired 1 July 2015 • 44 min
When a woman is murdered in Milwaukee in 1981, her sons describe a masked man with a ponytail fleeing from the home, and police investigate the victim's rancorous ex-husband and a neighbor who claims his gun was stolen. Police make a shocking arrest, but some have doubts to this day.
6. Murder on the Cape
Aired 10 June 2015 • 44 min
When a single mother is stabbed to death in her home in Cape Cod, MA. The numerous suspects include her child's father, his wife, and her eccentric father's young girlfriend.
7. Family Plot
Aired 5 August 2015 • 44 min
When an Orlando woman goes missing 15 years after the departure of her abusive husband, investigators wonder if her grieving children know more than they're saying.
8. Kill Thy Neighbor
Aired 16 July 2015 • 44 min
It's a brutal scene when Karen Gregory is raped and stabbed in her boyfriend's Gulfport, FL, home. After Detective Larry Tosi enlists the help of his firefighter friend, George Lewis, to solve the crime, the case takes a shocking turn.
9. Homicide Hotel
Aired 20 July 2015 • 44 min
A maid finds a woman dead in Room 305 of an Oregon hotel. Her grieving husband reveals an open relationship - was an affair to blame? Or had this Ivy League grad fallen into a life of drugs? Then a prostitute comes forward with a shocking revelation.
10. Bedroom Basher
Aired 23 July 2015 • 44 min
A young pregnant woman is raped and bludgeoned in California. It looks like the work of a serial killer called "The Bedroom Basher." But when she regains her memory, she blames her husband. Is Kevin really the killer, or can DNA set him free?