Pauline Constable (Murder, She Wrote)

Pauline Constable (Carolyn Seymour) is the main villainess in the Murder, She Wrote episode "It Runs In The Family" (S04E06). She was the 19th Viscountess of Blackraven and the wife of Arthur Constable.
Before Pauline became part of the noble Blackraven family, she was a baker's girl. Ever since she lived in the high class of society, she has resented her poor past. But Pauline grew hungry for power, wanting to gain the title as the 19th Viscountess of Blackraven. In order to do so, she had to place her husband as the 19th Viscount, that means she has to kill off the living 17th and 18th Viscounts.
Prior to the episode, Pauline had poisoned Rupert Constable, the 17th Viscount, to make his son Lord Geoffrey Constable the new Viscount, and then continue to poison him slowly. Pauline finally killed Geoffrey by poisoning the casserole Jessica Fletcher's cousin Emma McGill had made for the picnic.
Pauline decided to frame the killings on Johnny Constable, she even attempted to kill her son Derek Constable by shooting his arm while he was hunting with Johnny to make it look like Johnny was going to kill the new heir to the Blackraven noble family line. Now that all of the people that stood in her husband's way of becoming Viscount, Pauline was prepared to claim her title.
But before Pauline could celebrate, Emma unmasked her as the killer when she noticed that Pauline's car wheels were muddy, even after the butler had washed her car, proving that Pauline was not having lunch with some ladies as she claimed. To prove her theory correct, she had her friend Humphrey Dufoe request to borrow her car. Pauline did not want to borrow the car because the shotgun used to shoot Derek was in the car trunk, revealing that Pauline would frame Johnny for the attempted murder along with the murders of the previous Viscounts. Pauline tearily confessed and was arrested for two murders.
== Trivia ==
* Carolyn Seymour also reappeared as a villainess in Murder, She Wrote as Nellie Ruddy.
* Carolyn Seymour also provided her voice to Gabrielle Steele, the evil murderer from the video game adaption of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Category:1980s
Category:Brunette
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Poison
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested