framing someone for a crime theme
The crime of providing false evidence or false testimony in order to falsely prove someone guilty of a crime, is featured.
32 total · 3 choice · 22 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| columbo1971e10x11 | choice | Cathleen Calvert and Patrick Kinsley hatched a convoluted scheme to murder the investment broker Howard Seltzer in such a way so as to pin the crime on Cathleen's husband: Patrick went to Howard's home and shot him dead. They then planted evidence implicating Cathleen's husband. |
| columbo1971e1x04 | choice | The art critic Dale Kingston shot his uncle dead and tried to frame his aunt for the crime all in a bid to inherit his uncle's valuable art collection. He would have gotten away with it too had it not been for the ever-pesky Lt. Columbo. |
| columbo1971e9x05 | choice | Wesley poison murdered Adam and tried to pin it on his wife, Lydia. |
| ahh1x30 | major | John set out to frame his wife's lover for her murder out of spite for having been so rudely cuckolded. |
| ahh2x23 | major | In reality, Sheridan had murdered his wife and stashed her body in the trunk of his Rolls-Royce. When the car thieves made off with his ride before he could dump the body in a nearby lake, Sheridan and his lover Enid seized the opportunity by hatching a plot to frame them for kidnapping his wife for a ransom of $200,000. Their thinking was that the police would conclude the thieves murdered the women as part of a botched kidnapping. |
| ahh2x32 | major | Henry faked his own death as part of an elaborate plot to make it look like his domineering wife had murdered him. She was arrested, found guilty, and put to death. |
| ahh3x19 | major | Noreen and Curly had murdered Noreen's husband and pinned the crime on Walter. |
| ahh3x24 | major | The conclusion which the story lead up to was that Agatha came up with a clever scheme to avenge herself (and the late Mary) on Jarvis: She removed evidence of Mary's suicide and tricked Jarvis into implicating himself. She then called the cops, who ended up killing Jarvis in a shootout. |
| ahp2x01 | major | Mr. Princey tried to frame Captain Smollet for a murder that George's own daughter had committed. |
| ahp6x20 | major | The point of the story was that Cyril framed Eliot for an assault. |