Who Murdered The Asshole / Live-Action TV

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents: In the three-part episode, "I Killed the Count", the titular Count is such a screaming asshole that there are not only multiple suspects, but multiple confessions. The multiple confessions are actually part of the murder; a group of people who were friends of the Count's long-suffering wife cooperated. The intended murderer drew the short straw (literally) and placed evidence that each person in the conspiracy could use to "confirm" their guilt, resulting in more suspects than can be legally held for a single crime. The Hitchcock Twist was that none of them were guilty, as the wife had finally had enough... but their actions saved her from the consequences.
  Raines: It's lucky he deserved killing, isn't it, sir?
• All My Children:
  • In 1992, Will Cortlandt was bludgeoned to death with a crowbar and had become such a pariah that there were no less than 15 suspects, including his own sister.
  • Later, in 2004, after Michael Cambias raped Bianca, he earned the hatred of everyone in Pine Valley, especially after he gets Off on a Technicality because Bianca destroyed the physical evidence. After he turns up dead shortly after, all of Bianca's loved ones and friends attend his funeral just to give eulogies on how much they hate him, with Tad Martin himself stealing his body from the morgue and burying it in the city dump. When it is revealed that Bianca herself confronted Michael and shot him dead in self-defense when he tried to rape her again, the judge, who was sympathetic to Bianca and believed her from the start, leaned hard on the prosecution not to press any charges against Bianca.
• Andor: Chief Inspector Hyne doesn't have a high opinion of one of the cops that Cassian kills in "Kassa", even expressing surprise that he wasn't murdered sooner. He quickly deduces that the two cops, who were both in the process of breaking numerous laws and had way more money than their salaries would excuse when they died, had finally attacked a victim that fought back successfully. This influences his decision to cover up the incident and order that it not be investigated further, which Karn unfortunately takes issue with.
• The Ark (2023): Malcom Perry impersonated Jasper, the head of life support of the Ark 1 starship. This kills many people during a crisis with the ship's oxygen supply. He is locked up and tries to blackmail Lieutenant Garnet into not calling for him to be spaced. And the end of the first episode, he is to be interrogated but instead is found in his locked cell with his throat cut. At various times; the subsequent investigation suspects Garnet, Eva - whose partner Harris died during the crisis, and Alicia - who got fake Jasper's job. The actual murderer was Trent, who learned Perry / fake Jasper knew about his involvement in smuggling two additional passengers onto the ship.
• The premise behind Bad Sisters. John Paul (aka "The Prick") was so unlikable that just about everyone wanted him dead.
• Bones:
  • Probably happens with about the same 50/50 frequency as other crime shows. An example is a parody of The Office, where a hateful manager is dumped down an elevator. It turns out she had an aneurysm burst when one of the couple she busted for a forbidden affair — one of whom she was already blackmailing to sleep with her — threw a stapler at her head in frustration, and the two dumped her body in a panic.
  • Perhaps the biggest example of the show is The Gravedigger a.k.a. Heather Taffet, a serial killer who buried her victims alive then demanded a ransom. After finally getting caught and convicted, she gets her head blown off while on the way to try and appeal her conviction. The killer turns out to be Booth's former mentor, who was in turn hired by the father of two of the Gravedigger's victims.
• Burke's Law: "Who Killed the Asshole?" Most episodes deal with Capt. Amos Burke seeking the answer to that question among The Beautiful Elite of Los Angeles, all of whom would have some motive in that week's murder.
• City Homicide: The episode "Cut and Dried" has a convicted child molester murdered in prison, and few of the detectives are motivated to investigate too thoroughly. It's then subverted when it turns out he was genuinely repentant, was intending to give evidence against the pedophile ring he belonged to, and was in fact silenced by two of the prison guards.
• Cluedo:
  • Most of the victims on this Game Show were straight-up ass-lacquers. Definitely helps for a show with a small, recurring cast of potential murderers.
  • Similarly, the cast of the movie Clue was either the blackmailer, his accomplices, or the blackmailed suspects (who all survive the movie), except FBI agent Mr. Green.
• Happens frequently on Cold Case, in which long lists of suspects are common for even sympathetic victims. Not entirely surprising, given that most cold cases exist for one of two reasons: either the case was only just discovered, in which case relevant details (not to mention physical evidence) may be hard to piece together, or that the case hit a dead end, which usually means that either any obvious leads were ruled out or there weren't any to begin with. The victim of the episode "Justice" is an extreme example for the series, though: a serial rapist Jerk Jock who was blown away by the pissed-off brother of one of his victims (and he only faked being repentant so said sister wouldn't do the deed herself). The cold case squad decided to coach the brother into how to pretend it was a self-defense murder right in the middle of interrogating him.
• Columbo: Most of the victims in the first two seasons, allowing Columbo to have a cozy time with the murderer.
• Coronation Street had a non-murderous example when local Smug Snake Manipulative Bitch Tracy Barlow was beaten up by an unknown neighbour. Stepfather Ken Barlow informed the police that the number of people who didn't want to do it was lower.
• The South Korean whodunnit game show Crime Scene frequently uses this trope, likely because the format requires there to be 6 suspects, and therefore 6 motives because the game would be too easy unless Everyone Is a Suspect.
• CSI-verse:
  • CSI:
    • Subversion in one episode. The victim is an asshole to his four co-workers, all of whom were the only ones to have access to the room he died in. The audience is led to believe that a combination of two or more of the four are the ones who offed the jerkass (all of whom are pretty jerkassy themselves). Turns out it was the janitor cleaning the vents, who killed the man when his hammer fell out of the pocket and through the grate. He didn't know the guy and removed the hammer because he didn't want to go back to jail.
    • A handyman at a brothel who was shot in the neck with a crossbow, bludgeoned, suffering from anaphylactic shock, and poisoned with rattlesnake venom. He'd been sleeping with the brothel owner's wife (who gave his wife shrimp when he knew she was going to see the victim, who had a shellfish allergy), abusing one of the prostitutes (who injected him with rattlesnake venom from a snake she caught and later hit him on the head with a crowbar when she thought he was trying to attack her while he was delirious from the snake venom and anaphylactic shock), and shot in the neck with a crossbow by another coworker he'd been bullying (which miraculously hit him at just the right place to give him a tracheotomy without hitting the jugular). But he actually died when he sat in a chair that he hadn't fixed, causing it to break, dumping him into the brothel's swimming pool, where he drowned. The team let everyone off the hook on the grounds that it was apparently judged a (self-inflicted) accidental death, and Nick even snarking that if the case made it to trial, the defense attorneys would just say that the chair was the real killer.
  • CSI: Miami: An Alpha Bitch of such horrible caliber had driven a teenage boy into attempting suicide and coerced a girl into getting gang-banged by three boys to showcase that they were "losers", and none of the other students wanted to stop the bullying in fear of what she could do to them while the principal was essentially blackmailed into not expelling her under the threat of her filing a False Rape Accusation against him or the school facing a Frivolous Lawsuit by her equally terrible mother. The Papa Wolf and Mama Bear collective of every kid the Alpha Bitch bullied banded together to kidnap her, tie her to a touchdown pole and force her to hear their children's confessions to the school psychiatrist, and then stoned her to death when she had the stupid idea to not only not show any regret, but also tell the parents that the kids deserved everything that she did to them because they were losers.
  • CSI: NY:
    • The investigators spend most of "The Fall" trying to figure out which one of the many people at the victim's party is the killer because so many of them had motive. They only attended to try to get on his good side and/or advance their own careers, not because any of them actually liked him. Turns out to be a case of Life Will Kill You.
    • "Happily Never After": A much-hated woman is found dead beneath an ice castle in park. The onlookers actually start clapping when her identity is revealed. Sheldon is astonished and notes that it would be easier to figure out who didn't want her dead than who did.
• Dallas: While he survived, J.R. Ewing, hence the "Who shot JR?" plotline.
• Death in Paradise: In "Dishing Up Murder", the Victim of the Week was an obnoxious celebrity chef who was loathed by his entire inner circle. He was cheating on his girlfriend and partner (both romantically and professionally), dominating and abusing his son, blackmailing his sous chef, having an affair with his pastry chef, and had allowed his brother to take the fall for a crime he had committed.
• Decoy: The murder victim in "The Tin Pan Payoff" was fond of seducing his friends' girlfriends simply to spite them, leaving a lot of men who were angry about being cheated on and a lot of women who were angry about being discarded once they'd served their purpose.
• Diagnosis: Murder:
  • In an early episode, Mark investigates the murder of a divorce lawyer, Lorenzo P. Kotch, who was murdered in the hospital. Given that Kotch was an Amoral Attorney who lied in court to ruin several peoples lives, each of Sloan's allies focus on different suspects. Eventually it turns out that the killer is the son of the recently fired security guard, who needed to keep his father employed so he could sell the cabin his father planned to retire to due to his gambling addiction, and had planned to steal drugs to discredit the security company that was replacing his father in hopes that Norman Briggs would rehire him. Kotch had merely interrupted him during the attempt.
• Dickensian: The murder victim was Jacob Marley, who is portrayed as not just as mean and grasping a moneylender as his partner, but sadistic on top of it. Scrooge is quick to point out to Inspector Bucket that the difficulty will be finding someone who didn't want him dead.
• The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "A Difficult Lie", the Victim of the Week is a disagreeable journalist who is later revealed to have been a blackmailer as well. The man seemed to create enemies wherever he went, with everyone from his caddie to the president of the golf club having a motive to kill him.
• EastEnders:
  • The "Who Shot Phil?" storyline, though as with J.R. Ewing, Phil survived. The culprit turned out to be his ex-girlfriend Lisa, who was upset with his abusive treatment of her.
  • The "Who Killed Archie?" storyline, in which Archie Mitchell is bludgeoned to death on Christmas Day by an unseen assailant. There were no less than ten suspects, all of whom rehearsed scenes in which they revealed themselves to be the killer, in order to keep the cast in the dark. The storyline culminated in a live episode on the show's 25th anniversary, in which prime suspect Bradley Branning (whose wife Stacey had been raped by Archie) falls from a roof to his death while being chased by the police. The murderer then turns out to be Stacey herself.
  • The "Who Killed Lucy Beale?" storyline. Lucy was murdered in April 2014, and the premise was that every single character on the show was a potential suspect. It wasn't until New Years' Day 2015 that this was finally whittled down to a paltry fourteen; a live episode in February 2015, the show's 30th anniversary, revealed that the culprit was none of them. It was Lucy's kid brother, Bobby Beale. The story wasn't properly wrapped up until June 2016, two years after it had begun, but even then it led to another storyline in which Max Branning, who'd been falsely arrested for the murder, returned to carry out a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Elementary:
  • In "You Do It to Yourself", Trent Annunzio is a sadistic wife beater, so his wife (actually his Sex Slave whom he never even legally married) Jun starts seeing another man. When Trent learns he's terminally ill, he has himself murdered and frames Jun's lover for it so she can be deported as an act of posthumous revenge. Fortunately, Holmes and Watson discover the truth before it's too late.
  • In "Dead Man's Switch", Milverton was a serial blackmailer currently threatening a rape victim's father with releasing a video of the rape on the Internet. In fact, the investigation of his death is more about finding the titular "Dead Man's Switch" to prevent the video from being uploaded. His killer, Anthony Pistone, seems like a decent man who killed in defense of his daughter, but it turns out he actually killed Milverton to take over the blackmail business.
  • In the episode "Poison Pen", where the victim's wife's alibi is that at the time of his poisoning, she was buying the same poison that the actual murderer, her step-son, used. The son wanted to kill his father because the man had been sexually abusing him and was starting to turn his attention to the younger brother. The wife and son had the same idea of framing their nanny since she had killed her own abusive father that way twenty years before.
• Ellery Queen: Every Victim of the Week. This was to maximise the number of suspects by giving everyone a motive to want the victim dead.
• Emmerdale: When Cain Dingle was beaten up and stabbed, there were no shortage of suspects, seeing how he'd antagonised nearly have the village by that point with his general Jerkass scumbaggery.
• One episode of Foyle's War involves the death of an RAF mechanic named Drake who was sleeping with a doctor's wife, abusing his own wife, blackmailing his landlord, and his negligent repair work led to one of Andrew Foyle's friends becoming severely burned in a plane crash. While interviewing the numerous suspects, Foyle notes that it seems all of Hastings had decided to sort Drake out one way or another on that night. The doctor confesses to having hit him with a rock, but the real murderer was Drake's brother-in-law, who found Drake half-conscious and drowned him in revenge for his sister.
• Game of Thrones: Joffrey Baratheon's death leads to this. He was so hated and reviled that the characters who actually cared about finding the true killer (i.e. just his mom and grandfather) said that practically all of Westeros had motive to kill him. His uncle Tyrion is framed for it on circumstantial evidence, but it was actually Littlefinger and Lady Olenna Tyrell.
• iZombie: In "Virtual Reality Bites", Liv tries to find the killer of a hacker called Sin Reaper. Thing is Sin has hundreds of enemies taking credit for his death, with a website popping up just to celebrate it. The real killer is the brother of a call center girl, who kept the hacker on hold through no fault of her own. The hacker then proceeded to systematically destroy her life, resulting in her suicide.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
  • In one episode, two convicted sex offenders are murdered. Elliot even balks at having to work the case, especially when he learns that one of the victims is someone he had previously arrested for raping and torturing a child.
  • "Angels" deals with the death of a man who kept two Central American children as sex slaves. In this case, the detectives take it very seriously, because they suspect that his killer might be a fellow child molester. They're right.
  • "Pandora" starts off as this when Stabler finds out that his victim was apparently trading child pornography online. Subverted when it turns out she was actually working with the FBI to trap pedophiles.
• Law & Order has an episode where a notorious paparazzo is murdered just outside a high-end restaurant. It turns out that essentially all of the customers and staff had at one time or another been a subject of his sleazy behavior, or who had friends and family who were, and they break out in applause when they find out whose body is lying dead in the street. The detectives realize it might be difficult to narrow down the suspect pool.
• The L Word: Each teaser seems to end with yet another person having a reason to hate Jenny Schecter, so there are plenty of suspects when she's eventually murdered. It turns out that she killed herself in Generation Q though.
• Midsomer Murders:
  • In "Judgement Day", one character, played by Orlando Bloom, who was sleeping with at least three different women (one of whom was paying him for it) until he got pitchforked through the chest in the first five minutes. He was also a petty thief and a vandal with a serious attitude problem.
  • In "Down Among the Dead Men", DC Ben Jones openly wonders why they're working so hard to solve the murder of known blackmailer Martin Barrett when "everyone's glad he's dead!"
• In Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, the Victim of the Week from "The Green Mill Murder" turns out to have been a blackmailer who had a string of people who wanted him dead for entirely understandable reasons.
• Mock the Week: As a recurring topic on "Scenes We'd Like to See" is "Lines you wouldn't hear in a TV detective show", this trope gets played for comedy:
  It's the TV presenter Noel Edmonds!
  Any idea why he was killed?
  ...It's the TV presenter Noel Edmonds!
• Monk:
  • One episode has the title character investigate the deaths of a bunch of violent mobsters. It turns out that they died because they pulled guns on another criminal, making it difficult to determine to what extent their deaths count as acts of self-defense. The killer tries to excuse himself by pointing out that his victims were assholes.
  • Also, in the episode "Mr. Monk and the Red Headed Stranger", Sonny Cross, the murder victim, was a person who embezzled a lot of money (embezzling $400,000 from Willie Nelson, and it is implied that this is not the first time he has done so later on in the episode), and he also did time for drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter. In regards to the latter incident, he also received a very lenient punishment, spending only 18 months in prison. Also, the murderer was a blind woman (well, half-blind, she regained the sight of one of her eyes from slipping on the floor at a Supermarket) who was the sole survivor of her family, the family who was killed by Cross's drunk driving, and it was because of his manslaughter that she was even blind in the first place.
• The Murders: In "Toxic" the police have to find who murdered the victim, who's revealed as being a Serial Rapist.
• Murder, She Wrote: Almost to the level of Once per Episode. However, there are actually some exceptions scattered throughout the show's long run of some perfectly nice people getting killed, but one in particular stands out as a very deliberate subversion of this trope. It centers around this Smug Snake Corrupt Corporate Executive where everything about him just seems to scream Asshole Victim... until you get to the halfway point and the murder victim is the exec's much nicer brother.
• Rather frequent on Murdoch Mysteries.
  • The victim in Season 1's "Child's Play" was murdered by his wife after discovering he was molesting the daughter they adopted - and had done so with their own biological daughter, who he murdered when she grew old enough to fight back. While questioning the adopted girl's brother, who was the prime suspect at the time, Inspector Brackenreid (an orphan himself) reassured him by saying that he would have done it too. Over the course of the investigation, it was also revealed that the victim employed orphans (including their adopted daughter's brother) to steal horses to supply his glue factory.
  • The victim in "Me, Myself, and Murdoch". The prime suspect for his murder is his stepdaughter, who has multiple personalities that resulted from her seeing her stepfather hack up her mother with an axe when she was a child. The man got another woman to marry him and pose as his original wife, and throughout the years he's been abusing his daughter and locking her up in the basement where he dismembered her mom. The murderer is his stepson from his first wife, who ran away as a kid and came back years later disguised as a farmhand, who was suspicious of why another woman was posing as his mother and axed his stepfather to death. Inspector Brackenreid even said he would do his best to avert the death penalty for the stepson, saying about his stepfather, "Bastard bloody deserved it."
  • The victim in "Downstairs, Upstairs" was the master of a wealthy household who used his position to rape the maids in his employ without consequences, dismissing them without a thought if they became pregnant, a situation similar to Gosford Park. When interviewed, the murderer said he did not regret it in the slightest.
  • In season 4, the victims of "All Tattered and Torn" are three men that were guilty or accomplice of raping a young woman and escaped justice years ago. The murderer is a former cop who was obsessed with the case and executed them.
  • In season 6, three young women are beaten and murdered by drowning. You feel less sympathetic when it is discovered that they accidentally killed another girl by repeatedly submerging her in cold water to "cleanse" her of her love for her Persian teacher and that one of them was also blackmailing her employer with threats of publishing news of his marriage to a Native woman in the newspaper.
  • The victim in "Drawn in Blood" is a particulatly vicious editorial cartoonist. While he seems fairly genial in person, and would probably argue that the people he's lampooning are the real assholes, he revels in being "the most hated man in Toronto".
• NCIS:
  • Many episodes of this show contain these certainly, however, the episode "Smoked" has an interesting twist. Because of evidence found during the autopsy, the entire team, and the viewer, believes their victim is a serial killer who murdered dozens of women who look like his wife. Gibbs and Fornell believe the wife to have found out and killed the husband, and they are sympathetic during the interview. Then, in the last five minutes, due to some more forensic magic, it is determined that the husband was completely innocent and SHE is the serial killer.
  • NCIS also did this in the backstory with Gibbs's murder of Pedro Hernandez (in cold blood and premeditated), who had murdered Gibbs's wife and daughter earlier. At first, this is only sporadically brought up in flashbacks (particularly during the "Hiatus" arc while Gibbs recovers from trauma and memory loss). It later comes back to haunt him in the "Rule 51" arc concluding season 7, where the idea of vengeance is also heavily deconstructed.
  • Another example is the episode "Caged", where a guard in a women's prison gets stabbed to death, and the team must find out who killed the guard. The guard is blackmailing an inmate's high school daughter for sex. It's implied that said inmate (who had less than one year left on her sentence and wants to be a mother to her kids) stabbed the guard, but another inmate (on a 175-year sentence), who McGee was sent to get a confession from, confesses to the murder. The team agrees that they won't lose any sleep over that.
  • Two men are killed in very gruesome ways by Ducky's girlfriend to attract his attention. She points out that they were unpleasant adulterers and deserved to die. Then this is subverted as Ducky proceeds to point out that they didn't deserve to die any more than she deserves to be their judge, jury and executioner.
  • Even though the murderer isn't a sympathetic one, few are sorry when Eli David is shot. Said man is the one who twisted Ari (his own son) into a murderer and a terrorist, and treated Ziva more like a tool for his own goals than like a daughter. One of his last actions is murdering a journalist to keep his own return to the USA secret.
  • Even the birth of NCIS came about with one of these. The two-parter JAG episode "Ice Queen"/"Meltdown" that served as the NCIS pilot introduced Gibbs and DiNozzo investigating the death of Lt. Singer and her five-month fetus, the token "Evil Witch" on JAG.
• The NUMB3RS series finale features the murders of two drug dealers and a dangerous drunk driver (who were assassinated with a Glock stolen from Don Eppes, an error that could get Don fired, and then passed along to a chain of wanna-be vigilantes). The motives are so numerous that they have to turn to social media to identify the killer of the drug dealers, and they never do find out who killed the drunk driver.
  • A non-murder example takes place earlier in the series when the son of a controversial music producer is kidnapped. When Colby tries to ask the father if he has any enemies, the man suggests he "pick up your mugbook and pick a page". (Fortunately, some later hints dropped by the kidnapper give the team the information they need to zero in on a suspect.)
• Only Murders in the Building: Tim Kono was Hated by All in the building which keeps the range of potential suspects wide open.
  • At the end of the first season, after solving Tim's murder, the trope comes back with the discovery of Bunny the building manager's murder, who Mabel had said was "probably the most hated person in the building now".
• Oz: The first episode of Season 2 revolves around Alva Case investigating the deaths during the prison riot at the end of Season 1. While most of them occurred when the National Guard breached the prisoner's barricade and began firing at anything that moved, it becomes clear that someone had taken advantage of the riot to murder Scott Ross. Since Ross was a sleazy, perverted Jerkass Neo-Nazi who pissed off pretty much everyone in the prison, it takes some time for Case to actually find the killer. It turns out to be prison guard Diane Wittlesey, who had gunned Ross down after he shot her lover Tim McManus in front of her; however, Case chooses to cover it up rather than turn her in.
• Perry Mason: Most but not all of this show's episodes deal with trying to identify the murderer of an unpleasant person when there's no shortage of people suspected to have killed the bastard.
• Power Rangers in Space alludes to this in "Flashes of Darkonda". When Darkonda screams in agony after the strength serum he's consumed has caused him to start melting, Cassie asks who would do that sort of thing to Darkonda. T.J. quips "Probably about half the galaxy."
• All over Pretty Little Liars, whose main premise is that anyone could have been the one to kill Alpha Bitch Alison.
• Psych has featured its share of these. One notable example is the fashion mogul couple from "Black And Tan: A Crime of Fashion". The husband is revealed to have stolen some of his recent designs from their assistant and is having an affair with one of their models. The wife is incredibly mean to everyone, including the aforementioned assistant. In an interesting twist, it turns out they killed each other. The husband poisoned his wife, but it took longer than it should have due to her bulimia. By the time it did kill her, she'd already killed him through electrocution.
• An episode of the old Superior Court courtroom procedural had an episode where the town bully ended up dead. Queue no less than six different witnesses other than the defendant killing the guy, motives ranging from the guy raping a couple of the women to revenge for the bully burning down houses and shops, to self-defense.
• 13 Reasons Why: Season 3 of the show centers around the mystery of who killed Bryce Walker. Bryce in the previous seasons had raped two girls, one of which later killed herself, has gaslit his emotionally devastated friend Justin so much that he was powerless against him even when he knew he had raped his girlfriend, was a general bully and asshole, beat up Clay when the latter confronted him with the truth and got off almost completely scot-free from the trial that made up season 2. The general reaction by even the viewers when the first teaser for the season revealed this was extremely positive.
• To Catch The Uncatchable: In this Hong Kong comedy detective show, a majority of the victims are often Jerkass and should had it coming to them. The female protagonist's previous boss had several affairs and tried to rape the protagonist as well. Turns out his jilted lover was the one to kill him. Another man was a cult leader who put drugs into his believers' drinks so they would follow his orders and would later force the drugs down a believer's throat for disobeying him and also going out with his son. His wife tried to stop him from killing the girl and accidentally pushed him too hard, causing him to fall off the building. There was a woman who was a model who chased after men, then dumped them after she had exploited them for all they were worth. She was pushed off the stairs by a fan of hers after she insulted him for being worthless.
• A Touch of Cloth: Parodied with the first episode's second murder victim, 'sushi despot' Aiden Hawkchurck. This walking turd was so despised that his featured magazine covers had headlines like "Enemymaker" and "Someone kill him already!". Even random radio broadcasters celebrate his death right after the protagonists muse that there must be a million suspects.
• The Unusuals: In the pilot, the late Detective Kowalski is revealed to have been a Corrupt Cop, an adulterer, a blackmailer, and an all-around Jerkass for the purpose of making everyone a suspect. However, his widow is shown to love him and genuinely mourn him.
• Victorious: In the episode "Who Did It To Trina," Trina's harness at a stage show is sabotaged, causing her to end up in a crazy accident. She survives, but the central characters are all each suspected of doing it not only because they were there when it happened, but because Trina was such a jerk to each of them earlier on in the episode and each flashback about each character's potential motive (those mostly blown wide out of proportion) does not make any effort to make her likable in any way to the point that viewers probably wished she'd died.
• Whodunnit? (UK): Most victims. In the most extreme case, every suspect tried to claim credit for killing the victim (a South American dictator) and the mystery was to work out who was telling the truth rather than who was lying.

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