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** In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS10E4 The Beast of Wedlock]]", Sam Wadey argued with his son Gabriel and when Gabriel tried to leave, Sam grabbed Gabriel and spun him around angrily. In doing so, he knocked Gabriel over the balcony railing and he fell to his death.
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** In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS4E7 The Missing Man]]", Millie shot and killed the "strange woman" breaking into her father's room -- which was, in fact, her father.
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* On ''Series/{{Elsbeth}}'', tennis coach Cliff drugs a towel for superstar player Johann to slow him down so Cliff's son can beat him in a match. But Cliff doesn't know that Johann's girlfriend was giving him "performance" drugs, which interact with the nitroglycerin on the towel and cause Johann to collapse and die on the court. Unlike other killers on the show, Cliff is shown quite shaken by this, openly noting "it was just an accident" to his own distraught son.
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* ''Series/CSIVegas'' has a father and son dying in their home of what looks like radiation poisoning. The father had been part of a team trying to bring a nuclear reactor to the area, giving lots of suspects. The team call in Angela, a radiation expert who gets exposed to a seemingly lethal dose. But things seem off as the radiation suddenly vanishes from the house and Josh discovers the "infected blood" of Angela actually belonged to her cat and she wasn't sick at all. It turns out this was all a heist, as the scientist's neighbor was stocking millions of dollars in gold, and Angela wanted it. Her plan was to set up the poison to access the home and then trick the team into helping her steal it away. When arrested, Angela relates her plan went awry as she figured that the scientist would easily recognize the signs of radiation poisoning, get to the hospital and she'd use the neighborhood evacuated to her advantage. Sadly, the scientist turned out to be too stubborn and consumed with work to realize what was happening until it was too late, meaning Angela is now spending the rest of her life in jail.
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** The ''third'' murder in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS20E6 Send in the Clowns]]" turns out to have been accidental--the murderer triggered an alarm system while snooping around a slaughterhouse and jostled a heavy wagon while trying to hide when the victim, Curtis Ferabbee, came around. The wagon went rolling and knocked Curtis on the ''automatic'' [[ConveyorBeltODoom slaughter line]] (and left him too dazed to move away before the line went to the gassing room where he is asphyxiated with carbon dioxide).
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** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E4 Midsomer Life]]", Charlie Finleyson had been trying to escape from someone who just intended to scare him off when he suffered a fatal heart attack. The attacker hid the body in the woods, and its discovery two weeks later triggered a string of actual murders.
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** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS10E3 King's Crystal]]", Peter Baxter died as a result of getting into a struggle with Ian King while holding the Masonic dagger he'd been using to try and force open a filing cabinet at the King's Crystal factory. In the scuffle he ended up falling and getting impaled on the dagger.
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** The first BodyOfTheWeek in "Left for Dead" occurs as a result of a StaircaseTumble when two characters are struggling at the top of the stairs. Although pushed, it was an accident and no murder was intended. [[NeverOneMurder The later murders, however...]]
** The third VictimOfTheWeek in "Till Death Do Us Part" is shoved by the killer who is trying to intimidate them, only for them to stumble over the edge of the balcony and fall to their death.
** The first VictimOfTheWeek in "The Point of Balance" suffers a fatal heart attack when her attacker shoves a length of tulle in her mouth and she starts choking. She suffered from an undiagnosed heart defect that made her susceptible to SCD (Sudden Cardiac Death).

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** The first BodyOfTheWeek in "Left "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS11E3 Left for Dead" Dead]]" occurs as a result of a StaircaseTumble when two characters are struggling at the top of the stairs. Although pushed, it was an accident and no murder was intended. [[NeverOneMurder The later murders, however...]]
** The third VictimOfTheWeek in "Till "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS20E5 Till Death Do Us Part" Part]]" is shoved by the killer who is trying to intimidate them, only for them to stumble over the edge of the balcony and fall to their death.
** The first VictimOfTheWeek in "The "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS21E1 The Point of Balance" Balance]]" suffers a fatal heart attack when her attacker shoves a length of tulle in her mouth and she starts choking. She suffered from an undiagnosed heart defect that made her susceptible to SCD (Sudden Cardiac Death).
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** A flashback in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS24E4 A Climate of Death]]" reveals that Dougie Duke's death was the result of the killer [[BoulderBludgeon hurling a large stone at his head]] during a fit of rage.

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* ''Series/IsItLegal'': Colin accidentally kills one of the firm’s clients in “Death in Hounslow” when he pushed a pen-stand with two sharp-ended pens over to him. One of them proceeds to lodge in his forehead and he dies as a result.

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* ''Series/IsItLegal'': Colin accidentally kills one of the firm’s firm's clients in “Death "Death in Hounslow” Hounslow" when he pushed a pen-stand with two sharp-ended pens over to him. One of them proceeds to lodge in his forehead and he dies as a result.result.
* ''Series/ItsAwfullyBadForYourEyesDarling'': When discussing what to do with the passed-out Kenneth in "A New Lease", Virginia tells the others to leave him on the fire escape. Clover is against this, worrying he might fall out, to which Pudding adds that they'll be had up for manslaughter.
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* ''Series/DarkDesire'': In Season 2, it turns out that [[spoiler:Dario]] killed Julieta accidentally while they struggled near the rooftop's edge, and she fell over.

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* ''Series/DarkDesire'': In Season 2, it turns out that [[spoiler:Dario]] [[spoiler:Darío]] killed Julieta accidentally while they struggled near the rooftop's edge, and she fell over.
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* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': Renee accidentally shot [[spoiler:Jorge]] in the gun while brandishing her gun at him [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety with her finger on the trigger]]. He might not have died, but she's too scared to call for help because his cousin Frankie might kill her for it, and lets him die of blood loss.

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* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': Renee accidentally shot [[spoiler:Jorge]] in the gun gut while brandishing her gun at him [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety with her finger on the trigger]]. He might not have died, but she's too scared to call for help because his cousin Frankie might kill her for it, and lets him die of blood loss.
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* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', one VictimOfTheWeek turned out to have been having an argument with a client that was angry, but not bloodthirsty. The killer pushed her backward -- not realizing she would fall and be impaled on the spikes of a tiny garden below.

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* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', one VictimOfTheWeek turned out to have been having an argument with a client that was angry, but not bloodthirsty. The killer pushed her backward -- not realizing she would fall and be impaled on the spikes of a tiny garden below.
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* ''Series/{{Believe}}'': This is Dani's tragic backstory. Her older brother stole her diary, she got mad and [[PowerIncontinence lost control of her]] [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], knocking over a loaded bookcase on top of him.

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* ''Series/{{Believe}}'': ''Series/{{Believe|2014}}'': This is Dani's tragic backstory. Her older brother stole her diary, she got mad and [[PowerIncontinence lost control of her]] [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers]], knocking over a loaded bookcase on top of him.
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* ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'': In one of the cases, the victim's wife throws a heavy ornament at him after he tells her how much he regrets marrying her. The blow is fatal, and in a panic the wife hides his body in a secret room behind the bookshelf. The case then takes a turn for the weird when his body seems to disappear.

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* ''Series/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "Hunger for Bread", the murder occurs because the VictimOfTheWeek makes the mistake of antagonizing his cleaning woman, whom he has been [[IntoxicationEnsues feeding a designer drug similar to speed without her knowledge]]. (ItMakesSenseInContext.) The interaction of the designer drug with her regular medication causes her to snap into a violent and beat his brains out with a dumbbell. she then blacks out and doesn't remember any of her actions.
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* ''Series/BanjunDrama'': In "Rival," a fight between the titular rivals, Min-ho and Jin-woo, leads to Jin-woo causing Min-ho to fall to his death. Since (although unbeknownst to himself) Jin-woo also ends up dying in the same way, this also counts as an AccidentalSuicide.
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* ''Series/GenV'':
** Marie killed her parents accidentally when her powers developed, with them going out of control.
** Cate inadvertently killed her little brother as a girl when he'd been annoying her by telling him to go into the woods and never come back. This happened to be the moment her CompellingVoice manifested, and so he did. He was never found.
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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: Misty tells Crystal about sabotaging the black box after their plane crash so they could't be rescued, and when she is horrified at this, Misty threatens to kill her if she tells anyone, but while only intending to threaten her she accidentally pushes her off the cliff they are standing on.

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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': Misty tells Crystal about sabotaging the black box after their plane crash so they could't be rescued, and when she is horrified at this, Misty threatens to kill her if she tells anyone, but while only intending to threaten her she accidentally pushes her off the cliff they are standing on.

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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: [[spoiler:Misty]] tells [[spoiler:Crystal]] about [[spoiler: sabotaging the black box after their plane crash so they could't be rescued]], and when she is horrified at this, [[spoiler:Misty]] threatens to kill her if she tells anyone, but while only intending to threaten her she accidentally pushes her off the cliff they are standing on.

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* ''Series/TheWire'', RecklessGunUsage in a dense city has its consequences.
** in season 2, Bodie and his crew are fighting over turf with an another crew, which escalates into a shootout. However, due to both side's incompetence with guns, neither side gets hit, but one stray bullet hits a small child in the head, killing him.
** in season 4, a man about to testify in a drug case is found shot dead, and Carcetti uses the case to hammer Mayor Royce for not providing funding for witness protection. For the inconvenient politics, the case gets kicked around and buried until the mayoral primaries are over, after which Kima Greggs is allowed to properly investigate the case, and it turns out the guy actually got struck by a stray bullet from someone shooting at empty containers in an alley.
* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}: [[spoiler:Misty]] Misty tells [[spoiler:Crystal]] Crystal about [[spoiler: sabotaging the black box after their plane crash so they could't be rescued]], rescued, and when she is horrified at this, [[spoiler:Misty]] Misty threatens to kill her if she tells anyone, but while only intending to threaten her she accidentally pushes her off the cliff they are standing on.

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