History Main / NeverSuicide

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': [[spoiler:Lalo's murder of Howard]] is covered up as being a suicide because if the police were to investigate it as a murder, it would most likely result in them asking too many questions about the circumstances, potentially uncovering Gus' massive drug operation in the area. Saul and Kim's earlier unrelated scheme of [[spoiler:making everyone believe that Howard was a cocaine addict]] factored into it, as did the recent death of [[spoiler:his longtime friend and business partner Chuck, his marriage falling apart, and his family's law firm teetering toward's bankruptcy]], together making his suicide seem plausible. Although Kim's guilty conscience eventually gets to her, and she confesses the whole truth to [[spoiler:Howard's widow, several years later (at that point, Gus and nearly all his associates are either dead or on the run, so there was little point keeping it a secret anymore)]].

* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': [[spoiler:Lalo's murder of Howard]] is covered up as being a suicide because if the police were to investigate it as a murder, it would most likely result in them asking too many questions about the circumstances, potentially uncovering Gus' massive drug operation in the area. Saul and Kim's earlier unrelated scheme of [[spoiler:making everyone believe that Howard was a cocaine addict]] factored into it, as did the recent death of [[spoiler:his longtime friend and business partner Chuck, his marriage falling apart, and his family's law firm teetering toward's bankruptcy]], together making his suicide seem plausible. Although Kim's guilty conscience eventually gets to her, and she confesses the whole truth to [[spoiler:Howard's widow, several years later]].

** Inverted in "Close Before Striking",l the arc that details the origin of how Batman started impersonating Matches Malone. The real Matches and his brother Carver had come to Gotham to try their insurance scams and it seemed to Batman, the GCPD, and then-District Attorney [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] that Matches killed Carver to squeeze him out -- only Carver actually committed suicide over the guilt that one of their scams resulted in the death of a homeless man and to save face for Carver, Matches was ''trying'' made it look like it was a random robbery gone wrong.

** Inverted in "Close Before Striking",l the arc that details the origin of how Batman started impersonating Matches Malone. The real Matches and his brother Carver had come to Gotham to try their insurance scams and it seemed to Batman, the GCPD, and then-District Attorney [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Harvey Dent]] that Matches killed Carver to squeeze him out -- only Carver actually committed suicide only the guilt that one of their scams resulted in the death of a homeless man ad to save face for Carver, Matches was ''trying'' made it look like it was a random robbery gone wrong.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': In "Fortunes", a woman apparently committed suicide by shooting herself, but the detective studying the crime scene immediately notices that the wound isn't right, and figures out that she was actually murdered with a blow to the head.

* In ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', the [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] Doctor Kaufman, a professor of forensic science, claims to be a master of making it look like a suicide. (He claims he specializes in celebrity overdose cases.) He is also [[TortureTechnician an expert in torture]], but he calls ''that'' a "just a hobby".)

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', where Claire discovers her college roommate apparently having committed suicide by jumping out the window, even leaving a note about how depressed she was, despite having planned out her whole life. Learning that being pushed will send a body a further distance than jumping, Claire jumps out the window herself ([[GoodThingYouCanHeal Good Thing She Can Heal]]), only to land on the same spot. [[spoiler:Played straight, actually. She was pushed out the window by an invisible girl, but we don't find that out for a few episodes.]]

* Double subverted in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' manga. Eddie Johnson meets with his boss Robin Wolfe, who wants to talk with him about his being disrespectful to others at work, and commits suicide on the way home. The police suspect that Robin killed Eddie because he was the last person Eddie saw while alive, and Robin decides to hire Phoenix to represent him, but [[UnreliableExpositor doesn't tell the whole truth about Eddie]]. However, after talking to the Wolfe family and Eddie's brother Brock, realizes that Robin may not have actually killed Eddie, but he essentially deliberately drove him to suicide, which is virtually the same thing, and which leads him to decide not to represent him.

* [[spoiler:Braun's death]] in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. Which actually ''is'' suicide, it's just that [[spoiler:Johan]] talked him into it.

* One such incident forms the basis of ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'': [[spoiler:a boy accidentally kills his sister and then gets his best friend to help him hang her body from a tree. The game is about his efforts to make amends 4 years afterwards.]]

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheCaseOfTheSilkStocking, the killer's first victim was pulled naked from the Thames and the coroner ruled her death a suicide. However, Holmes realises that the first victim he knows of was actually NotTheFirstVictim and, upon exhuming the body, Watson is able to find [[CallingCard a silk stocking stuffed down her throat]]. It's the discovery of this first victim that eventually leads Holmes to the killer.

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* In 2012, Irish woman Elaine O’Hara was murdered by her boyfriend. He staged it as a suicide knowing that it wouldn’t look suspicious because she had attempted suicide before. He nearly got away with it but was thankfully caught after hikers found the body buried in the forest.
* The death of [[UsefulNotes/PresidentsOfChile Salvador Allende]] spent 40 years in this state: Due to the circumstances of his death (dying inside a presidential palace that was being actively shelled by artillery during a military coup) and that the suicide was announced by the Junta who overthrew his government ([[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch who would have a vested interest in looking blameless on the matter]]), some parties (chief amongst them UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, who had been a friend of Allende's) questioned the official story and claimed the Junta had killed Allende during the siege instead. It was only in 2011, after the Junta had fallen, that an independent commission could confirm, based on an autopsy report and witness testimonies, that Allende [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled had indeed shot himself rather than fall into the Junta's hands]].
* During the Brazilian military dictatorship, IntrepidReporter Vladimir Herzog was "detained" by the lackeys of the regime and "found" in a room after having "committed suicide" by hanging himself from a bar lower than he was tall. It was quite frequent during those times, so much so that the expression "to be suicided" (meaning: "to be killed and then have the killing made to look like suicide") made its way into Brazilian Portuguese parlance, thanks in no small part to the Brazilian military.
* In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire accused of trafficking children for [[PaedoHunt sexual purposes]], "committed suicide" while awaiting trial. Epstein was linked to numerous rich and powerful figures, such as UsefulNotes/BillClinton, [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfWindsor Prince Andrew of England]], and more. This led to suspicions that he was [[HeKnowsTooMuch murdered in order to prevent his testimony from implicating them]]. Aside from the obvious motive, he was under suicide watch at the time, in a maximum security jail that hadn’t seen a successful suicide in thirty years, due to a previous "suicide" attempt. Which it later emerged Epstein claimed was actually him being attacked and nearly killed by a fellow prisoner, who was receiving orders from a cellphone he somehow had with him inside the prison. Furthermore, Epstein was in high spirits when he was last seen alive, believing that he was [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney certainly going to be let off for his crimes]]. Even more suspiciously, despite the official story that Epstein hanged himself, [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch the coroner’s report]] showed that his neck injuries were more typical of [[NeckSnap homicidal strangulation]] than suicidal hanging. Unsurprisingly, the internet has [[MemeticMutation done what it does best]], and bait-and-switch posts that end in "Epstein didn't kill himself" [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/617/538/ce6.jpg have]] [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/618/962/0ae.jpg become]] [[https://melmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Screen-Shot-2019-10-30-at-12.04.30-PM.png a]] [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/031/624/eps.jpg meme]].
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* [[spoiler:Braun's death]] in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. Which actually ''is'' suicide, it's just that [[spoiler:Johan]] talked him into it.

* About halfway through ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'', Roger Podactor is found dead after falling from his apartment balcony. The police investigation initially leans towards suicide [[spoiler:at least partly because the murderer is on said police force]], but Ace shows this couldn't be the case due to a spot of blood on the railing and the next-door neighbor hearing Podactor scream right before he fell and one of the officers needing to open the balcony door when the police first arrived -- the glass is double-paned soundproof, which he demonstrates [[LargeHam in typical]] [[https://youtu.be/tuhPPOXnyKo#t=2m10s Ace fashion.]]

* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'': When Miss Honey tells Matilda about her father's death, she says that the cops ruled it out as suicide. Matilda doesn't believe it, instead suggesting that Trunchbull may have been the one who killed him, [[spoiler:and given her reaction when Matilda uses her powers to make it seem that Magnus' "ghost" is haunting her, it's all but confirmed that she was right]].

** The plotline of its {{Prequel}} novel ''LightNovel/AnotherNote'' revolves around this trope.

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/AnotherNote: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases'', in which L and Naomi Misora investigate a series of murders, except for the last, which is a [[spoiler:suicide meant to look like a murder.]]