"Murder 101" is a mystery-thriller series that follows true-crime author Charles Lattimore back into a courtroom he once only wrote about, when a campus visit to give a lecture on his book turns his own life into the subject of a police inquiry.
What is Murder 101 about?
Charles Lattimore has built a career writing about a notorious murder trial, and the series opens as he returns to lecture on how the book came together, using the occasion to reconnect with his ex-wife Laura at the university where she teaches. After his talk, a student asks to meet with him that same night — and turns up dead before morning, pulling Lattimore from author to suspect inside a single day. The rest of the story follows Lattimore and Laura as they work through campus politics, old resentments and a growing list of people with something to hide, racing to clear his name before the investigation settles on him for good.
About the cast
Stacey Lee directs the series, which does not lean on a marquee ensemble so much as a tight campus setting where every faculty member and student the leads question could plausibly be hiding something. That intentionally small circle of suspects keeps the mystery contained to the university grounds rather than sprawling across a wider cast of locations.
Context & significance
Produced in the United States, "Murder 101" sits in the campus-mystery tradition, using an author's return to his own source material as the hook that reopens old wounds between him and his ex-wife while a fresh crime forces them back into each other's orbit. The roughly 100-minute installment gives the mystery room to breathe, spending real time on Lattimore and Laura's history rather than rushing straight to the investigation's procedural beats, and the series has drawn a modest but steady following since its release.
Watching Murder 101 on Ktime
"Murder 101" streams on K-Time with a free account login, in its original English audio. K-Time's Farsi-language interface lets Persian-speaking viewers browse, queue and follow the series alongside the rest of the platform's mystery and thriller catalogue.