Betty Foss (Death in Paradise)

Elizabeth "Betty" Foss (Susannah Fielding) is the villainess of "Until Death Do You Part", episode 4.04 of BBC's Death in Paradise (airdate January 29, 2015). She was a loss adjuster for an insurance company and a college friend of Jenny Burgess, acting as one of the bridesmaids for her wedding to Simon Parke. Betty was shown as having joined Jenny and her two other bridesmaids (Ivy Marcel and Sal Tyler) for her bachelorette party at the Dolore Sands Hotel.
Jenny was found dead in her hotel room during the week-long party, with Betty appearing heartbroken along with the rest of the bridesmaids, while arguing to DI Humphrey Goodman and Camille Bordey that none of them could've killed her. It was later discovered, however, that Simon dated Betty in their freshman years of university, with their relationship ending after less than a year. When questioned by Humphrey and Camille, however, Betty insisted that she had gotten over her feelings for Simon and loved Jenny's friendship dearly.
But as revealed over the course of the investigation, Betty's relationship with Simon ended after she learned that Simon was cheating on her with Jenny. Following the breakup, Betty's sister Carol (who was travelling abroad on a gap year) went to comfort Jenny, only to instead die in a traffic accident on her way there. Vengeful at Jenny for (in her mind) causing her sister's death, the evil Betty used the bachelorette party to take her revenge, drowning Jenny as she was taking a bath. Betty then used the eight-hour candles to establish an alibi for herself, pouring salt on the candles to make them burn slower and make it appear that Jenny's time of death was later than it actually was.
Betty had also used a cork to keep Jenny's hotel room door from locking, losing it when she hurriedly dislodged it after killing Jenny. Humphrey discovered the cork as well as traces of the salt on the bathtub, with these details, in addition to a video of Simon inadvertedly revealing his cheating on Betty in college while answering questions about Jenny for a bachelorette party game, revealing Betty as Jenny's killer. Humphrey gathered all the suspects together at the hotel to expose Betty, revealing how she'd committed Jenny's murder and how she was motivated by revenge for her sister's death. Cornered, a tearful Betty blasted Jenny and Simon for betraying her and charged at Simon, proclaiming that he had murdered her sister before being handcuffed and arrested.
Category:2010s
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Deceiver
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Drowning
Category:Sibling
Category:Vengeful
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested