Ghost Whisperer Recap – Season 5, Episode 10 – Excessive Forces – air date 12/04/09. In this episode the ghost of a high school boy accuses a Grandview policeman of murdering him. The shooting in question was actually attributed to the accused policeman’s partner … so what is going on! But wait … wrong shooting! The accused policeman also tickets Eli for a tail light issue, and has Melinda’s car towed while she is in the police station.

It seems that the murdered boy’s best friend brought him into the ER, barely conscious. And both Dillon (the murdered boy) and Jake (his best friend) knew the policeman’s daughter (Ann Marie). Somehow along the line Eli gets ticked by the accused policeman for a tail light violation, Melinda has her car towed (and inadvertently dismantled in an erroneous drug check), and the accused policeman’s mailbox is trashed.

It turns out the death was accidental. Good story re making assumptions, an excessive parenting.