Carmen Thompson (The Mysteries of Laura)

Carmen Thompson (Sheila Tapia) is the villainess of "The Mystery of the Frozen Foodie", episode 1.11 of The Mysteries of Laura (airdate January 7, 2015). She was a cook at restaurant Alamede and was the wife of the head chef, J.T. Thompson. J.T.'s dedication to his restaurant left Carmen feeling lonely, which led her to have an affair with his sous chef, Peter Hill.
When the dalliance resulted in Carmen becoming pregnant, she told Peter, hoping it would scare him away so she could simply claim the baby was J.T.'s and keep her infidelity hidden. But instead, Peter became dead-set on starting a life with Carmen, even using the money he was saving for his own restaurant to buy an apartment for them. When Carmen showed resistance to Peter's plan and he threatened to go to J.T., Carmen became desperate to silence Peter.
After learning that the restaurant freezer had broken and that J.T. was using dry ice to keep their food cold, Carmen decided to use that in her plan to kill Peter. Late one night, Carmen snuck to the restaurant and asked Peter to meet her there under the guise of having another tryst. But instead, the evil Carmen trapped Peter in the freezer, allowing her lover to suffocate to death. J.T. discovered Peter's body later on and hastily put his corpse in the garbage. When Laura Diamond and her team began investigating, Carmen claimed that both she and J.T. were at home in bed at the time of Peter's death and defended her husband when he became a suspect as a result of his actions.
Carmen's villainous reveal came when Laura learned from Tony Abbott, another chef at the restaurant that she was now dating, that Carmen had recently switched to pasteurized eggs. This, among other things that Laura noticed, led her to uncover Carmen's pregnancy and her affair with Peter. Laura confronted Carmen at the restaurant and, after she initially denied everything, Carmen confessed to her crime, saying that Peter was naive to believe she would abandon the life she had built with J.T. for him and that he wasn't "listening to reason". Carmen was subsequently arrested, with a police officer handcuffing her and escorting her out of the kitchen, much to her husband's shock.
Category:2010s
Category:Adulteress
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Deceiver
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Suffocation
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested