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** It turns out several of Joe's friends back in Alaska were in his will, and are trying to kill him to get their share of the gold he'd found.
** Variant with Rosette's boss Jake Stillman, who wants her to marry Joe so Jake can kill him, letting Rosette inherit his gold and then, as her partner, he can claim half of it for himself.
* ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'': This is the motive behind the murders -- Lady Van Tassel seeks to claim the Van Garrett and Van Tassel estates by having the Headless Horseman kill all of Van Garrett's other potential heirs (starting with his secret wife and unborn child, which cleared the way for her husband -- Baltus Van Tassel, a relative of Van Garrett -- to inherit), all in
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Noted that Killers of the Flower Moon is based on actual events.
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* ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon''. Under the law you can't buy Osage headrights (the rights to the oil under their land) but you can inherit it. William Hale arranges for male relatives to marry the daughters of Lizzie Q, then arranges to have the daughters murdered to ensure that their fortunes would be inherited by his family upon Lizzie's death.
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* ''Film/KillersOfTheFlowerMoon''. Under the law you can't buy Osage headrights (the rights to the oil under their land) but you can inherit it. William Hale arranges for male relatives to marry the daughters of Lizzie Q, then arranges to have the daughters murdered to ensure that their fortunes would be inherited by his family upon Lizzie's death. Sadly TruthInTelevision; the film is an adaptation of a nonfiction book of the same title about the murders of dozens if not hundreds of Osage as part of a scheme to steal the Native American nation's newfound oil wealth.
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* ''TabletopGame/TheTragedyOfMcDeath'': Julia MacEwan's real motivation for joining the alliance against [=McDeath=] is that she's the illegitimate daughter of [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} king Dunco, whose throne McDeath usurped]] and needs to find the letters proving this in the treasury. Then she needs to find a way to remove said king's legitimate heirs, Donalbane and Charles, either MurderByInaction or outright murdering them.
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* ''TabletopGame/TheTragedyOfMcDeath'': ''TabletopGame/TheTragedyOfMcDeath'' (an early ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' campaign): Julia MacEwan's real motivation for joining the alliance against [=McDeath=] is that she's the illegitimate daughter of [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} king Dunco, whose throne McDeath usurped]] and needs to find the letters proving this in the treasury. Then she needs to find a way to remove said king's legitimate heirs, Donalbane and Charles, either MurderByInaction or outright murdering them. Other people involved who want him dead don't particularly care about the title, but [=McDeath=] does have quite the treasury...
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Since this is a DeathTrope, there will be '''unmarked spoilers'''.
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Since this is a DeathTrope, {{Death Trope|s}}, there will be '''unmarked spoilers'''.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Parodied in "Cecily" when the little girl who's apparently the subject of numerous attempts to scare her to death by her creepy aunt and uncle is actually just pranking the Goodies. She ends up [[FilleFatale blowing up the house with them in it.]]
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Parodied in "Cecily" when the little girl who's apparently the subject of numerous attempts to scare her to death by for her creepy aunt and uncle 50,000 pound inheritance is actually just pranking the Goodies. She ends up [[FilleFatale blowing up the house with them in it.]]
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Parodied in "Cecily" when the little girl who's the subject of numerous attempts to scare her to death by her creepy aunt and uncle is actually just pranking the Goodies. She ends up [[FilleFatale blowing up the house with them in it.]]
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Parodied in "Cecily" when the little girl who's apparently the subject of numerous attempts to scare her to death by her creepy aunt and uncle is actually just pranking the Goodies. She ends up [[FilleFatale blowing up the house with them in it.]]
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Parodied in "Cecily" when the little girl who's the subject of numerous attempts to scare her to death by her creepy aunt and uncle is actually just pranking the Goodies. She ends up [[FilleFatale blowing up the house with them in it.]]
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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', pirate captain Kuro comes up with an elaborate plan to steal a wealthy orphan's fortune: get himself hired as her butler, work for several years ingratiating himself to her and the townsfolk, have his hypnotist buddy make her write a will leaving him everything, then summon his crew to attack the village and make sure she's an unfortunate casualty.
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Most jurisdictions have laws that prevent a murderer from inheriting anything from the victim's estate, so not getting caught is essential to making it work. As such, the trope has often been the basis of [[MysteryTropes murder mysteries]], especially historically, although it's now becoming something of a DiscreditedTrope; it's rare to find a murder mystery where the inheritor actually turns out to be the murderer, although it's very common nowadays to find it at least {{Subverted|Trope}} with the inheritor being a prime suspect who turns out to be innocent.
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Most jurisdictions have laws that prevent a murderer from inheriting anything from the victim's estate, estate (in the US, this is called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayer_rule Slayer rule]]), so not getting caught is essential to making it work. As such, the trope has often been the basis of [[MysteryTropes murder mysteries]], especially historically, although it's now becoming something of a DiscreditedTrope; it's rare to find a murder mystery where the inheritor actually turns out to be the murderer, although it's very common nowadays to find it at least {{Subverted|Trope}} with the inheritor being a prime suspect who turns out to be innocent.
