Continuity mistake: The pad where the knife is stabbed protrudes under the writer's shirt.
Continuity mistake: When Jessica limps into Milton's car, she holds onto the door. A shot later, her hand is away, and it's Milton's hand instead holding onto the door.
Continuity mistake: When Jessica (a stunt double) is knocked down, her left arm is under her body with her bag in front. An instant cut later (now Angela Lansbury), her arm and bag are behind her back.
Continuity mistake: When Milton picks up Jessica at the airport, her bag is hanging over her right shoulder. A shot later, she is holding it with her left hand.
Funeral at Fifty-Mile - S1-E22
Continuity mistake: When Jessica walks from the house to the barn at the end, she is wearing knee high brown boots. By the time she reaches the barn they have been replaced with court shoes.
Continuity mistake: When Emma was almost hit by a car she jumped up onto the edge of the wall and then back down onto the floor. When she landed she was facing the theatre door, but when Oliver came of the door and the shot changed, she was facing away from the wall. This happened in the transition from stunt person to Angela.
One Good Bid Deserves a Murder - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: The first time Jessica is shown asking for her room number, she asks for room 812. Later in the episode she asks for room 810.
Night of the Headless Horseman - S3-E11
Continuity mistake: In the car, when Jessica is told that she has to act like Dorian's mother she covers her face with both hands. A shot later there's just one hand on her face.
Crossed Up - S3-E13
Continuity mistake: When the crime is solved Jessica shows her emergency calling button. The way she holds it changes between shots.
Crossed Up - S3-E13
Continuity mistake: When Grady grabs the diary it swaps between closed or open depending on the angle.
The Bottom Line Is Murder - S3-E15
Continuity mistake: When the cop picks up the dirty ashtray he blows the ash away. In the close-up the ashtray is spotless as if it had been wiped with a cloth or if it were brand-new. First of all, no ash blew away, and second of all, a mere puff couldn't have cleaned it the way it looks.
Something Borrowed, Someone Blue - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: In the kitchen the police officer loosens his tie, but from the side shot it's still tight.
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall (2) - S5-E22
Continuity mistake: When Eudora arrives at Jessica's home to apologise, she's wearing a pair of gloves. A shot later, the gloves have vanished.
Continuity mistake: When the episode begins, Jessica is having a meeting with Sally Wilson, who hangs a bag over her shoulder. A shot later, her bag is down and she is hanging it again.
Continuity mistake: When Jessica is having dinner, his glass swaps between full or almost empty depending on the shot.
Continuity mistake: When Danny Kincaid is at the beach, he is wearing green shorts when he is taking his shirt and shoes off, but he has blue and black shorts on when he goes into the water. (00:19:00)
Continuity mistake: When Danny dives into the ocean he's wearing different shorts than he was on the beach.
Another Killing in Cork - S11-E20
Continuity mistake: In the opening exterior shot of the train, it has at least six brown and green carriages. However, in the next exterior shot, the train is made up of three brown and cream carriages.
Chosen answer: This is the very reason my brother and I used to jokingly call the show, "Murder, She Caused." It's amazing she was ever on anyone's guest list for a party, given the likelihood someone would end up deceased. As to your question, most of the time, Jessica Fletcher would have had an air-tight alibi, as she was in a room full of people, or her whereabouts were accounted for when a murder occurred elsewhere. It also seems to me that there were episodes where she, purely with respect to opportunity, could have been a suspect. I believe she even acknowledged that as a logical possibility from time to time, even though she knew, of course, she was not the killer. However, the investigation would obviously rule out the possibility of her involvement, eventually.
Michael Albert