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eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
7th Mar, 2024 08:20:22 AM
I can think of several related tropes, none of which hit the nail on the head: Smokescreen Crime, Significant Name Overlap, Serial Killings, Specific Target
Ner0014reN
Since: Aug, 2023
Multiple individuals with the same name are murdered in a single day. Evidence is clear that it was the same killer.
- In Monk episode "Mr. Munk and the Three Julies", two women named Julie Teeger are murdered. Natalie Teeger, who also has a daughter named Julie, becomes extremely protective of her daughter, including stopping the daughter's driving test. Turns out this was unnecessary—the husband of one Julie murdered his wife, and murdered the other because the mailman got the two of them confused, and the second Julie had evidence which would prove the husband guilty.
- In Law & Order episode "Criminal Law", three women named Sylvia Rossi are murdered. Turns out that a criminal who was worried about being convicted had a hitman murder several people including Sylvia Rossi, but didn't specify which Sylvia Rossi he wanted killed.
Edited by Someone1981