India, Aug. 4 -- Believing that lessons from a Hollywood crime series would help him outsmart investigators, a 53-year-old Delhi man allegedly murdered his wife over a property dispute and fled with lakhs of rupees in cash, only to be tracked down through technical surveillance, police said on Monday.

The accused, Kamal Singh, was arrested near Mathura Railway Station after a multi-state manhunt by the Shahdara district police. During interrogation, he told investigators that he had been influenced by "The Staircase" and believed that hiding the murder weapon and placing another instrument of crime at the scene would help him evade the police.

The murder came to light on the night of July 30 after the couple's son returned home and foun...