The Perfect Crime/Murder
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Perfect crime is a colloquial term used in law and fiction (principally crime fiction) to characterize crimes that are undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or else unsolved as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator.
In certain contexts, the concept of perfect crime is limited to just undetected crimes; if an event is ever identified as a crime, some investigators say it cannot be called 'perfect'.
A perfect crime should be distinguished from one that has merely not been solved yet or where everyday chance or procedural matters frustrate a conviction. There is an element that the crime is (or appears likely to be) unable to be solved.
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Zodiac
2007, in 14 top lists Check -
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Minority Report
2002, in 8 top lists Check -
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Death on the Nile
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The Two Jakes
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2003 — a.k.a. Memories of Murder, in 17 top lists Check -
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1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
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Evil Under the Sun
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2010 — a.k.a. Love Crime, in 0 top lists Check -
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