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* ''Series/TheGoodWife'': In [[Recap/TheGoodWifeS1E01Pilot the pilot]], exculpatory evidence is hidden due to a mistake rather than active malice. Off of a suggestion from Peter, Alicia investigates the concept of "pitted" evidence, police slang for material gathered at the crime scene but then judged irrelevant. In this case, dog hair found on the victim was mistakenly attributed to the victim's dog and not analyzed, when it in fact belonged to racing greyhounds at the track where the victim's brother-in-law worked.
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** In "[[Recap/RugratsS7E13 Talk of the Town]]", Kimi gets a new roller coaster toy. Chuckie accidentally breaks it when he trips on his untied shoelaces, and is worried how upset Kimi will be if she finds her toy broken, so he hides it in a drawer. Angelica finds the broken toy and is eager to find out who broke it. When Chuckie confesses what he did to Kimi, she is distraught at first, but when she sees Tommy, Phil, and Lil playing with the pieces, she's happy that her friends can all have a piece to play with.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS7E11DayOfThePottyTellTaleCellPhoneTheTimeOfTheirLives Tell-Tale Cell Phone]]", Angelica plays with Charlotte's cell phone, but accidentally drops it and its battery comes off. Thinking she broke it, she hides it in a drawer so that Charlotte won't find out about it. It isn't long before Angelica's guilt catches up with her and she confesses what she did to Charlotte. Charlotte assures her that her cell phone's battery is always coming off and it's not broken. Unfortunately, Angelica isn't exactly off the hook when it's revealed that she called the John E. Mergency plumbing service, which came to her house.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS7E13 Talk of the Town]]", Kimi gets a new roller coaster toy. Chuckie accidentally breaks it when he trips on his untied shoelaces, and is worried how upset Kimi will be if she finds her toy broken, so he hides it in a drawer. Angelica finds the broken toy and is eager to find out who broke it. When Chuckie confesses what he did to Kimi, she is distraught at first, but when she sees Tommy, Phil, and Lil playing with the pieces, she's happy that her friends can all have a piece to play with.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS19E5ACrankyChristmas A Cranky Christmas]]", Thomas is assigned to get a crate from Brendam Docks, which is revealed to have everything needed to set up an ice rink inside it. Cranky accidentally drops the crate, and worried he might have broken what was inside, tries to hide the package and the fact that he dropped it. He eventually gets busted near the end of the episode, but he was EasilyForgiven, since Thomas himself was worried that he broke what was in the package when it fell off his flatbed when he tried to make a sharp turn.
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* Occurs regularly in most of Creator/AgathaChristie's works, usually because the hider found evidence that could point to his/her {{Love Interest|s}} as guilty. Often ends with the happy couple both proven innocent (generally they don't believe in the other's guilt, but think the police might).
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* Occurs regularly in most of Creator/AgathaChristie's works, usually because the hider found evidence that could point to his/her their {{Love Interest|s}} as guilty. Often ends with the happy couple both proven innocent (generally they don't believe in the other's guilt, but think the police might).
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* ''Film/AMostViolentYear'': The police show up to search the premises during the middle of a child's birthday party. Anna and Abel excuse themselves to say goodbye to their guests, then scramble to hide file-boxes of tax records underneath their back porch.
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* The premise of ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'' and its sequel is that two office workers have to [[OfCorpseHesAlive conceal that their boss died on Friday]] until the following Monday, in order for their promotions to go through.
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* The premise of ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'' and its sequel is that two office workers have to [[OfCorpseHesAlive conceal that their boss died on Friday]] until the following Monday, in order for their promotions to go through.
* Occurs regularly in most of Creator/AgathaChristie's works, usually because the hider found evidence that could point to his/her {{Love Interest|s}} as guilty. Often ends with the happy couple both proven innocent (generally they don't believe in the other's guilt, but think the police might).
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* Occurs regularly in most of Creator/AgathaChristie's works, usually because the hider found evidence that could point to his/her {{Love Interest|s}} as guilty. Often ends with the happy couple both proven innocent (generally they don't believe in the other's guilt, but think the police might).
* In an episode of ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', Himura solves the case and deduces that the sole witness was responsible for tampering with the crime scene and hiding the murder weapon. The question then becomes ''where'' they hid it: they were given a body search at the scene, and couldn't have walked far due to their frail body. The answer is revealed to be [[spoiler:that the witness hid the knife inside his dog's nifty little sweater.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Shelby and Lauren must wipe away their fingerprints after investigating the clock store to avoid being associated with [[spoiler:Manfred's murder.]] If you miss any, Shelby's investigation is hampered by being dragged in to the station to explain why he was there. [[spoiler:This also ends up being the motivation for Shelby visiting all the families of the Origami Killer's victims and collecting their clues.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', after committing the murder in the opening scene, you, as Lucas, are tasked with cleaning up or hiding the evidence. In the next scene, you, [[DuelingPlayerCharacters as Carla or Tyler]], have to uncover said evidence all over again. In a twist, the main piece (the knife) is hidden by Lucas off-screen, so the players have to actually look for it in the second scene.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', after committing the murder in the opening scene, you, as Lucas, are tasked with cleaning up or hiding the evidence. In the next scene, you, [[DuelingPlayerCharacters as Carla or Tyler]], have to uncover said evidence all over again. In a twist, the main piece (the knife) is hidden by Lucas off-screen, so the players have to actually look for it in the second scene.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'', after committing the murder in the opening scene, you, as Lucas, are tasked with cleaning up or hiding the evidence. In the next scene, you, [[DuelingPlayerCharacters as Carla or Tyler]], have to uncover said evidence all over again. In a twist, the main piece (the knife) is hidden by Lucas off-screen, so the players have to actually look for it in the second scene.
* In ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Shelby and Lauren must wipe away their fingerprints after investigating the clock store to avoid being associated with [[spoiler:Manfred's murder.]] If you miss any, Shelby's investigation is hampered by being dragged in to the station to explain why he was there. [[spoiler:This also ends up being the motivation for Shelby visiting all the families of the Origami Killer's victims and collecting their clues.]]
* In ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Shelby and Lauren must wipe away their fingerprints after investigating the clock store to avoid being associated with [[spoiler:Manfred's murder.]] If you miss any, Shelby's investigation is hampered by being dragged in to the station to explain why he was there. [[spoiler:This also ends up being the motivation for Shelby visiting all the families of the Origami Killer's victims and collecting their clues.]]
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* ''Film/MurphysWar'': When the Nazis attack the hospital, Lt. Ellis hides his flight jacket so that the Nazis won't know that the people at the hospital have access to a seaplane (which Murphy is planning to use to attack the submarine).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei hides her mediocre grades, red panda merch and money she and her friends made from selling said merch under her bed.
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* ''Literature/ChocoholicMysteries'': In ''Moose Motive'', when Lee's found their footprints and made plaster casts that could potentially be used to identify someone who's been prowling around an area and might be the killer, the villain of the book (who's apparently been spying on her) promptly smashes the casts and then rakes over the original prints to destroy them when she leaves the area for a short time.
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Supertrope to EatTheEvidence. Also see DestroyTheEvidence.
This is TruthInTelevision, but real life cases won't be listed, since it is a derogatory trope and listing them [[NiceJobBreakingItHero would give criminals ideas to hide the evidence of their crimes]].
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* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' Stan's mom ends up burying several bodies in the basement in order to hide Stan's seeming murder spree; but it wasn't him, it was a killer goldfish.
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->''"Dirt makes a great hiding place. I've got a dirt salesman on speed dial for JUST this kind of thing."''
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* The game NOBODIES invokes this, as you are an employee of the “clean-up crew” for a governmental contracts agency, and the goal is to clean up after an assassin and make sure there are no evidence the assassination even happened.
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* In one ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' strip, Sandra is exploring the attic with her pet talking raccoon, Woo, and finds a raccoon-skin cap. She immediately hides it behind her back and lies to Woo so he won't see it.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Fed Up," the Loud siblings try to sabotage the goulash their dad was making for dinner, so that he'll order them pizza, by stealing all the goulash ingredients and hiding them. It doesn't work too well as Leni [[(TheDitz who we know is not that bright)]]hid the ingredients in their dad's slippers and bathrobe, which he wears ''every night.''
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Fed Up," the Loud siblings try to sabotage the goulash their dad was making for dinner, so that he'll order them pizza, by stealing all the goulash ingredients and hiding them. It doesn't work too well as Leni (who we know is [[ TheDitz not that bright]]) hid the ingredients in their dad's slippers and bathrobe, which he wears ''every night.''
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-->'''Mr. Loud:''' Someone please explain why I'm wearing my goulash?
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* The premise of ''Film/TheTroubleWithHarry'' is that several people try to hide the corpse of Harry', who they may have killed.
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* ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': [[spoiler: Why Sid was made into a skeleton, letting the killer hide him in plain sight in the Joshua Tay University anthropology department.]]
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