How to Unsolve a Murder follows the disappearance of retirees Jerry and Susan McFalls from their remote Arizona property in 2018, and the quiet unraveling of what should have been a straightforward investigation.
As suspicion shifted from a hostile neighbor to darker family conflicts involving greed, erased evidence, and overlooked suspects, the case stalled for years before being closed in 2024 by “exceptional means,” pinned on a man already dead and a confession that raised more questions than answers.
Through buried warrants, erased security footage, troubling interviews, and a County Attorney letter admitting there was no evidence, this film exposes how a murder can be declared “solved” without being proven, and how Mohave County’s astonishing clearance rates may hide a pattern of closing inconvenient homicides instead of confronting them.
This is not just a failure of justice, but a system quietly erasing its own unanswered crimes.
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