Louise Walton (Murder, She Wrote)

Louise Walton (Teri Austin) is the main villainess from Murder, She Wrote's tenth season opener, "Death In Hong Kong" (airdate September 12, 1993). She served as a business associate for the House of Dunbar, owned by American businessman Brian Dunbar.
Louise was an ambitious woman, she wanted to become the head of the House of Dunbar. She was climbing the business ladder by serving her company great deeds, even blackmailing fellow associate Mark Towers for insider trading. But Brian was in the middle of a quarrel with Hong Kong businessman Kai Kwan to sign a merger.
But when Brian was pressured to sign the merger, Louise's position in the company was breached as she might get replaced by a Chinese counterpart when Kwan will take over. Louise needed to prevent the merger from being signed, so she planned to kill Brian and frame his wife Emma for the murder and claim her desired position in the company.
Louise took her plan into action by poisoning the lime juice plate that Emma had made for the celebration by coating it with a mixture of sugar glazing and cyanide crystals. So that when the lime juice was poured, the sugar glazing would dissolve and the cyanide would be added. During the preparation for the celebration in the House of Dunbar, Louise drove to the House using Emma's car and snuck in to switch the plates, making her first mistake as the poisoned plate was out of proportion with the other plates. Louise slipped the key back in to Emma's purse during dinner and planted the cyanide crystal in Emma's studio.
Jessica Fletcher had unmasked Louise as the killer by setting her up in a red herring — the tape that supposedly recorded her conversation in Emma's car with another business associate in Paris. Louise demanded the tape from Jessica by gunpoint, until she was caught in the act.
Louise confessed to the murder. Jessica added to Louise that she had misjudged Brian and Emma as they could place her in her desired position. Jessica revealed to the inspector the details that pointed to Louise as the murderer — the afternoon shower, all the other cars were dry except for Emma's car. Emma's alibi and missing car key. The yellow strip of paint on the wheels that placed Louise in the scene of the crime as the paint was wet when she snuck into the House of Dunbar.
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Category:1990s
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Category:Attempted Murder
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