Perfect crime is a colloquial term used in law and fiction (principally crime fiction) to characterize crimes that are undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or else unsolved as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator.
In certain contexts, the concept of perfect crime is limited to just undetected crimes; if an event is ever identified as a crime, some investigators say it cannot be called 'perfect'.
A perfect crime should be distinguished from one that has merely not been solved yet or where everyday chance or procedural matters frustrate a conviction. There is an element that the crime is (or appears likely to be) unable to be solved.
Simply, a perfect crime is no crime, where by no laws are breached by exploiting a loop hole in the code of a system and/or just not standing under (understanding) it.
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Your dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate,”
—Helene Johnson (b. 1907)
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