History Main / WhoDunnitToMe

** "Dead Man Walking". GenreSavvy Tony makes a comparison by name to ''DOA''.
** Also when Tony gets pneumonic plague.

* ''Series/GhostsUS'': Alberta is convinced she was murdered and asks Samantha to solve her murder, even though the other ghosts say she just had a heart attack.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'': The spinoff title ''The Wanderers'' from the Eighties revolved around a group of [[HeroOfAnotherStory minor heroes]], and began with a scientist finding the bodies of the slaughtered team. The rest of the first issue sees the scientist, Clonus, have a clone of himself create clones of the Wanderers with enhanced powers and changed appearances, so they can investigate their own murders during the first StoryArc.

* ''Kate'': Kate, the titular assassin of the film, is poisoned with Polonium-204 and has 24 hours (once she wakes up in the hospital) to find out who poisoned her, why she was poisoned, and get revenge.

* ''Film/Kate'': Kate, the titular assassin of the film, is poisoned with Polonium-204 and has 24 hours (once she wakes up in the hospital) to find out who poisoned her, why she was poisoned, and get revenge.

* An episode of ''Series/TheMentalist'' has a scientist discover that a super-virus she's been working on has been released in the sealed lab. She immediately calls CBI and reports her own murder. The team spends the rest of the episode trying to track down the killer, since there's no cure for the virus. This turns into a real murder partway through, though, since the scientist dies after saying goodbye to her kid. [[spoiler:The killer is another scientist at the lab who had been quietly stealing small quantities of the virus to sell on the black market. When a surprise inspection arrives, his plan was to cover up the discrepancy in their stock of the virus by making it look like she had accidentally exposed herself but couldn't admit it (a theory the inspectors are initially onboard with)]].

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Reunion", Klingon Chancellor K'mpec reveals that he's been poisoned. He asks Captain Picard to find out who is responsible, focusing on the two challengers to his soon-to-be-vacant position -- Duras and Gowron.

* The novel ''Never Trust A Dead Man'' pairs this with ClearMyName and EnemyMine: the protagonist, Selwyn, is forced to cooperate with his murdered [[TheRival rival]] (who has been brought back from the dead in the form of a bat) to find the real murderer and clear Selwyn's name.

* ''Series/PushingDaisies'', in the pilot.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' Most of the plot of Joshua's week was about Neku trying to figure this out. By the end of game it becomes clear that this was becuase Joshua himself was the murderer.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has the detective challenged by a witch to solve his own deaths (plural.) If he can't find a rational explanation for his impossible murder, the witch will eat him alive.
** Drawn to an epic MindScrew at the end of Umineko [=Ep4=] with this gem:
--->'''Beatrice''': "[[color:red:Battler Ushiromiya, at this time, I will kill you. And right now, there is no one on the island other than you. The only one alive on this island is you. Nothing outside the island can interfere in any way. And of course, I am not you. However, I am here now and will kill you.]]"\\
'''Battler''': "[...]So?"\\
'''Beatrice''': ".........Who...aaam I...?"
** Especially since it is said in red ([[LanguageOfTruth which means it must be true]]) and that he (and the reader) is supposed to figure who that person is.
* The whole point of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is Rika finding out who kills her every June, and consequently destroys the town.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has the detective challenged by a witch to solve his own deaths (plural.) If he can't find a rational explanation for his impossible murder, the witch will eat him alive.
** Drawn to an epic MindScrew at the end of Umineko [=Ep4=] with this gem:
--->'''Beatrice''': "[[color:red:Battler Ushiromiya, at this time, I will kill you. And right now, there is no one on the island other than you. The only one alive on this island is you. Nothing outside the island can interfere in any way. And of course, I am not you. However, I am here now and will kill you.]]"\\
'''Battler''': "[...]So?"\\
'''Beatrice''': ".........Who...aaam I...?"
** Especially since it is said in red ([[LanguageOfTruth which means it must be true]]) and that he (and the reader) is supposed to figure who that person is.
* The whole point of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' is Rika finding out who kills her every June, and consequently destroys the town.

** The Watch has a rule where if someone comes BackFromTheDead via the intervention of TheIgor, it's still treated as a murder. True, they were only briefly dead, which is why the killer will be "briefly" hanged.

'''Frank Bigelow''': UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco, last night.\\

** ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' makes passing mention of a variant; apparently it's not unheard of for the Guild of Assassins to accept contracts from zombies with a score to settle.

* Sissel's motivation as the eponymous ghost in ''[[VideoGame/GhostTrick Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective]]'' is not only to find his killer, but to find out who he is in the first place. The game even drops various hints as to Sissel's identity [[spoiler:as a ''cat'']].

* The ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' scenario "In The Walls", in the ''Cities on the Edge'' supplement, is about a "ghost" ([[BrainUploading uploaded intelligence]]) who was murdered but restored from backup. He's annoyed about that, but livid that the backup has been tampered with, meaning he has no memories of the past six months.

* In ''Literature/AMemoryCalledEmpire'' Mahit has her predecessor Yskandr's VirtualGhost loaded into her brain implant, but that backup is fifteen years out of date and had no idea his original was dead until they saw his corpse, and then had a mental breakdown and went silent. But as Mahit investigates Yskandr's death she gets flashes of his memory.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' is about a [[ArtificialIntelligence Machine]] that can predict murders before they occur. But in the Season 2 episode "In Extremis", a computer virus is starting to effect its performance, so Team Machine arrive too late to stop the VictimOfTheWeek from being poisoned with polonium that will kill him within a day.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' had this as a significant plot point throughout Series 6, with the Doctor being "killed" in Utah in the first episode and having to find out who and why he was murdered, and the threads of it carried over into Series 7, as The Doctor now knew WHO did it, but was still trying to figure out the specifics of WHY, a question which was finally answered in the Christmas special [[DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor ''Time of the Doctor'']].