wouldn't crime scenes tests reveal
that she fired the bullets after saying he was dead. making her act of self-defense fraught with malice & thus against the law.
“Can't go wrong with taupe."- Wynn Duffy
Fortunately for Laura, forensic tests are not that precise. They can usually detect an approximate death time, not an exact one.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
here's the thing: his prints are on the gun. how does she explain that? dead men can't grip a gun.
“Can't go wrong with taupe."- Wynn Duffy
What do you mean exactly? Laura can merely say the intruder brought the gun with him and attacked them with it.
Ben certainly shows signs of that, with his pistol-whipped head.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
powder residue tests of the gun would reveal laura last fired the gun. the cops would do that. and yet martin has prints & is even holding the gun. how does she explain how a dead guy, which she said was dead, is holding a gun that she fired to kill him? i'm not saying she's 'bad' or wrong, just from an objective standpoint of fact, she's not looking that innocent.
“Can't go wrong with taupe."- Wynn Duffy
Laura & Ben would say that Martin (the intruder) broke in, had a gun, beat Ben, threatened Laura with it. Laura fought with him at some point, and got the gun, shot & killed Martin.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
well just imagine: what if martin lived?!! what he would say? then combined with the gunpowder on laura's hands.
“Can't go wrong with taupe."- Wynn Duffy
If Martin lived after being mowed down with 3 bullets in the chest and midsection, she'd better stay with him.
At least until she can find an exorcist.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
after the movie faded to black. a lauraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! lauraaaaaaaaaaa! scream would have been the cherry on top of this movie sundae!
“Can't go wrong with taupe."- Wynn Duffy
Yeah, this part was crazy. Laura (Sara) has no I.D., driver's license or anything proving who she was. In real life I don't think she would have gotten away with it so easy. The police would have found who Martin was and eventually they would have put the pieces together.
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Integrity is what you do when's nobody's watching.
esp. b/c she said she shot an 'intruder'. shady.
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Plus I was thinking that Martin was such a narcissist that he probably kept a photo of her in his wallet. This proves conducive because he loved showing her off, making her wear barely there dresses to impress his colleagues. So you know he probably loved showing photos of his attractively young wife. Not to mention, the man was a multimillionaire. Wouldn't that be a tad odd for his character to break into a quaint house of some random woman. After a little investigation of his background, the fact that he just lost his wife as well, who he was, a trip to his office and house, and BINGO! That's the same red-haired toothy woman who killed him! Seems a little sloppy in my opinion.
Zina ( The Original Princess)
"Martin was such a narcissist that he probably kept a photo of her in his wallet"
How does that make him a narcissist?
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Love means never having to say you're ugly. - The Abominable Dr. Phibes
I don't know what your point is. She wasn't trying to make it look like Martin pulled the trigger and shot himself. I don't recall that the gun was put back into his hands? She told 911 that she killed him, so why would she attempt to cover that up? Her story would be, he broke in, beat up Ben, threatened to kill her with HIS gun. They struggled, she got the gun away from him and killed him with HIS gun.
I would assume she was honest with the police about who she was and who the intruder was. They wouldn't likely believe some man in an overcoat just randomly broke into her house, and they likely would have discovered that she was in fact Laura, his wife.
If they were still living together it might be harder to get away with killing him since they would ask, why didn't you get help, why didn't you leave? But in this case, she did leave, even went to the extent that she faked her own death to get away. He persued her and made it very obvious he was not going to let it go, and very obvious she had no choice but to kill him.