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* ''Literature/SolarPons'': In "The Adventure of the Cloverdale Kennels", a detective-sergeant calls in Pons to assist in an apparent case of suicide because the victim had no known reason to commit suicide and chose an incredibly roundabout method of committing it. Pons investigation soon reveals the sergeant's instincts were right and it was murder.
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* ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'': [[spoiler:In the epilogue, Ewan confronts Charlotte with the lighter at her countryside mansion and kills her, framing her death as a suicide.]]
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** The first victim in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E3 Orchis Fatalis]]", a classics teacher, seems to have drunk hemlock, the second victim is found hanged in his garage. It's proved they are both murdered by the same person.
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** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E1 Things That Go Bump in the Night]]", Pennyman is found with his wrists slit, but it becomes clear that as more people are found with the same that they are being murdered.
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* ''Literature/OnTheStreetWhereYouLive'': Emily starts to wonder if Douglas Carter really killed himself out of grief over Madeline Shapley, or if he was actually murdered because he'd found out who killed Madeline. It eventually turns out [[spoiler:Douglas had realised his own father killed Madeline and had confronted him with a gun; there was a struggle and Douglas was killed, with Richard successfully making it look like suicide. It's unclear from Richard's journal entries if he [[OffingTheOffspring intentionally killed his son]] or if it was [[AccidentalMurder an accident]]]].
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* Played with in the first ''Literature/{{Spenser}}'' novel, ''The Godwulf Manscript''. Spenser discovers the body of a young woman who had been involved in the case he was working on, lying dead in her bathtub. The crime was made to look like a suicide, though Spenser spots evidence that makes suicide seem unlikely. Unfortunately, the police captain in charge of the investigation is on the take, and the crime lord responsible for the murder leans on him to brush it under the rug, so he states that it's clearly a suicide and washes his hands of it.
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** Played with in the first''Literature/{{Spenser}}'' novel, ''The Godwulf Manscript''. Spenser discovers the body of a young woman who had been involved in the case he was working on, lying dead in her bathtub. The crime was made to look like a suicide, though Spenser spots evidence that makes suicide seem unlikely. Unfortunately, the police captain in charge of the investigation is on the take, and the crime lord responsible for the murder leans on him to brush it under the rug, so he states that it's clearly a suicide and washes his hands of it.
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** ''Literature/MurderInTheMews'' [[spoiler:is a subversion. A dead woman at first glance seems to have committed suicide, then after some sleuthing clues appear that she was really murdered, but at the end, it turns out that it had really been suicide and the clues had been planted by her best friend to frame the guy who was responsible for driving her into suicide.]]
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** ''Literature/MurderInTheMews'' [[spoiler:is a subversion. ]] A dead woman at first glance seems to have committed suicide, then after some sleuthing clues appear that she was really murdered, but [[spoiler:but at the end, it turns out that it had really been suicide and the clues had been planted by her best friend to frame the guy who was responsible for driving her into suicide.]]
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** "Dance with the Dead" begins with what appears to be a SuicidePact gone wrong. Of course, being Midsomer, it is never suicide.
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** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E3 A Worm in the Bud]]", an email is sent to Simon Bartlett purportedly from his wife reading ''"I have to face the truth now. No more pretending. I'd rather be dead than live with it. At least you can start again. Susan"'', in an attempt to make her death look like a suicide.
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** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS5E3 A Worm in the Bud]]", an email is sent to Simon Bartlett purportedly from his wife reading ''"I have to face the truth now. No more pretending. I'd rather be dead than live with it. At least you can start again. Susan"'', in an attempt to make her death look like a suicide.
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* ''Series/TrueDetective'': The truth of the Wheeler case is fully revealed in "[[Recap/TrueDetectiveS4E05Part5 Part 5]]". Cops [[spoiler:Danvers and Navarro]] had already gone to his home multiple times for domestic violence complaints, and on the last time they found he'd finally beaten his girlfriend to death. They shot him and [[MurderSuicide made it look like a suicide.]]
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* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/{{Gunpoint}}'', where [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Fritz Gessler]] expresses surprise about [[spoiler:Katie Collins' prison suicide]] because he's [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident premeditated so many murders]] that he's ''completely forgotten'' that real suicides happen.
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* {{Discussed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/{{Gunpoint}}'', where [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Fritz Gessler]] expresses surprise about [[spoiler:Katie Collins' prison suicide]] because he's [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident premeditated so many murders]] that he's ''completely forgotten'' that real suicides happen.
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* Inverted in ''Film/BodiesBodiesBodies'', where an accidental death appears at first glance to be murder. [[spoiler:David's death, the event that kicks off the plot, was actually an AccidentalSuicide, but the circumstances of his death -- his corpse found with a slit throat and a bloody kukri lying next to him -- were so obviously suspicious that everybody assumed he was murdered, and things spiraled from there. What's more, Emma's death is implied to have been the result of her stumbling down the stairs while high, but given that tensions were already running high in the house, the remaining people in the house assume she was the killer's next victim.]]
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* ''Series/JakeAndTheFatman'': In "I Cover the Waterfront", an old friend of Derek's shows up wanting to reconnect, but when he's found dead later that night, Derek insists it wasn't a suicide like all the evidence seems to imply.
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* ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'': [[spoiler: Simon]] is thrown off a building in what’s made to look like a suicide. CCTV footage shows him climbing the building alone since his killers are able to access the roof through [[InASingleBound alternate means]], but the people who knew the deceased realize that something’s fishy.
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* In season 3 of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', [[spoiler:Orson's mother Gloria]] drugs [[spoiler:Bree]], puts her in a bath, and is about to slit her writs to make it look like a BathSuicide. [[spoiler:Orson]] gets there in the nick of time, and realizes that [[spoiler:Gloria had killed Orson's father Edwin in this way.]]
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* Inverted in ''Film/{{Narc}}''. Henry Oak is investigating his friend's murder [[spoiler:but it turns out he was covering up his suicide so that 1) his wife could receive a pension and 2) to frame the drug dealers who supplied him.]]
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* Inverted in ''Film/{{Narc}}''.''Film/Narc2002''. Henry Oak is investigating his friend's murder [[spoiler:but it turns out he was covering up his suicide so that 1) his wife could receive a pension and 2) to frame the drug dealers who supplied him.]]
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' when Steve stages the suicide of the best friend of a promiscuous transfer student as part of a scheme for her to sleep with him, only for her to declare the suicide note to not match the friend's handwriting, and insist they find her murderer. The friend in this case being a doll the girl is convinced is alive.
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** Twice over in "Look Before You Leap." First a near-hysterical grad student climbs over the railing of a bridge in front of witnesses, then falls to her death. Henry finds evidence of paint under her nails from digging into the bridge to try to hang on, as well as a fragment of skin in her teeth; he also climbs out onto a ledge on the bridge and finds two different footprints and a carabiner the killer used to avoid falling themself. Her mentor, a much older professor, is accused of killing her. When he's found with slit wrists and a suicide note, Henry determines based on drugs in his coffee, the angle of the cuts, and a grammatical error in the GratuitousGreek in the suicide note, that his death was also a faked suicide.
** Inverted in "The Art of Murder" when everyone, including Henry, thinks that Gloria Carlyle was murdered, but it turns out it was a suicide gone wrong.
** Twice over in "Look Before You Leap." First a near-hysterical grad student climbs over the railing of a bridge in front of witnesses, then falls to her death. Henry finds evidence of paint under her nails from digging into the bridge to try to hang on, as well as a fragment of skin in her teeth; he also climbs out onto a ledge on the bridge and finds two different footprints and a carabiner the killer used to avoid falling themself. Her mentor, a much older professor, is accused of killing her. When he's found with slit wrists and a suicide note, Henry determines based on drugs in his coffee, the angle of the cuts, and a grammatical error in the GratuitousGreek in the suicide note, that his death was also a faked suicide.
** Inverted in "The Art of Murder" when everyone, including Henry, thinks that Gloria Carlyle was murdered, but it turns out it was a suicide gone wrong.
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* In the third ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' novel, the detectives are investigating a suspicious but apparently accidental death. Then a woman who was unrequitedly in love with the (female) victim is found dead, in a classic suicide scenario. They immediately suspect murder.
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** In "[[Recap/ColumboS02E04 Dagger of the Mind's Eye]]," the late Sir Roger's butler Tanner figures out that Nicholas and Lillian murdered his former employer, so he demands they hire him to buy his silence. However, they're [[[[BlackmailBackfire more willing to kill than be blackmailed]]. Roger breaks into Tanner's home, strangles him, and then stages it as a hanging. He also tries to make it seem like Tanner is [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit the one who killed sir Roger as well]].
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* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' occasionally has this trope as the plot for the VillainOfTheWeek where the killer will try to pass the murder off as a suicide. Columbo will spot a clue that doesn't add up like a computer keyboard with finger prints missing from specific keys, telling him that the killer used gloves to type up the suicide note.
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* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' occasionally has this trope as the plot for the VillainOfTheWeek where the killer will try to pass the murder off as a suicide--which Detective Columbo would inevitably uncover.
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS02E01 Etude in Black]]," Alex Benedict murders his mistress by bludgeoning her over the head, then stages her house so it looks like she committed suicide with her coal gas oven, and the head wound was from when she passed out from the fumes and fell over. Columbo suspects foul play from the suicide note being improperly aligned in the typewriter (Benedict pre-typed it and put it there) and the fact that it also killed her beloved cockatiel.
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS02E04 Dagger of the Mind's Eye]]," the late Sir Roger's butler Tanner figures out that Nicholas and Lillian murdered his former employer, so he demands they hire him to buy his silence. However, they're [[[[BlackmailBackfire more willing to kill than be blackmailed]]. Roger breaks into Tanner's home, strangles him, and then stages it as a hanging. He also tries to make it seem like Tanner is [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit the one who killed sir Roger as well]].
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS10E14 Columbo Likes the Nightlife]]," Justin Price kills journalist Linwood Coben for trying to blackmail him and makes it look like a suicide. Columbowill spot a clue discovers that doesn't add up like a computer keyboard with finger prints missing from specific keys, telling him that the killer used gloves to type up Linwood couldn't have written the suicide note. note on his computer, since his fingerprints aren't on some of the keys necessary to type it.
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS02E01 Etude in Black]]," Alex Benedict murders his mistress by bludgeoning her over the head, then stages her house so it looks like she committed suicide with her coal gas oven, and the head wound was from when she passed out from the fumes and fell over. Columbo suspects foul play from the suicide note being improperly aligned in the typewriter (Benedict pre-typed it and put it there) and the fact that it also killed her beloved cockatiel.
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS02E04 Dagger of the Mind's Eye]]," the late Sir Roger's butler Tanner figures out that Nicholas and Lillian murdered his former employer, so he demands they hire him to buy his silence. However, they're [[[[BlackmailBackfire more willing to kill than be blackmailed]]. Roger breaks into Tanner's home, strangles him, and then stages it as a hanging. He also tries to make it seem like Tanner is [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit the one who killed sir Roger as well]].
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS10E14 Columbo Likes the Nightlife]]," Justin Price kills journalist Linwood Coben for trying to blackmail him and makes it look like a suicide. Columbo
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** In the flashback during Season 1's "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E6FiveO Five-O", Sergeant Fensky and Officer Hoffman, the DirtyCops who killed Matty Ehrmantraut, planned to kill Mike by making it look like he decided to [[AteHisGun eat his gun]] while drinking. Unfortunately for them, Mike was PlayingDrunk and deactivated the gun they planned to use.
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** Invoked. In the flashback during Season 1's "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E6FiveO Five-O", Five-O"]], Sergeant Fensky and Officer Hoffman, the DirtyCops who killed Matty Ehrmantraut, planned to kill Mike by making it look like he decided to [[AteHisGun eat his gun]] while drinking. Unfortunately for them, Mike was PlayingDrunk and deactivated the gun they planned to use.
