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No, generally it's a murder that we are talking about but it doesn't have to be and it could just as easily be "killed her", or even "killed it" if it were an animal.
If they had literature on the Gem Homeworld, I'm sure this trope would be called "The Pearl Did It".
I can't think of a way to properly word this. It's been revealed in the past few weeks that the infamous 47 percent video of Mitt Romney was actually filmed by the bartender.
My (strong) suggestion: Inlcude in article separation on Type I (Ass Pull at the end) and Type II (actual Butler/Gardener/Cabbie/Janitor committing the crime), both may overlap.
In the Mentalist, in a certain episode (I can't remember which one)... The butler was an atleast an accomplish with Patrick Jane (lead character and in fact the Mentalist) exitingly stating the butler did it, well he helped further saying how he always wanted to say that...
(Complete noob when it comes to T Vtropes so excuse me if I did anything wrong)
Edited by 77.164.36.120
Took out this example:
- From the recently released series Sherlock: "Oh, of course you didn't, no-one ever thinks of the cabbie."
Since a taxi driver isn't a butler (or even a servant), and as I understand it this trope isn't just about general service professions committing murder, it doesn't seem like it fits.
I remember a Bones episode where they were in England. In the end the butler confessed, but probably didn't do it. And the reasoning was that he was saving his rich employers as one of them had done it. They promised him legal representation. Is this something that happens in other things?