Jenna Kealey (Law & Order)

Jenna Kealey (Ashley Crow) is the main villainess from "Renunciation," episode 2.09 of Law & Order (airdate November 19, 1991). She is a prep school teacher and the wife of Larry Kealey.
Jenna was also engaged in an affair with one of her students, Roy Pack Jr., with the affair coming as a result of their tutoring sessions. She was also in debt due to Larry's sports gambling, and after Larry caught Jenna with Roy, the adulterous villainess devised a scheme to kill her husband for the insurance benefits. She and Roy contacted Larry's bookie, David Kaufer, paying him $2,000 to kill Larry, only to renounce the plan afterwards.
The renunciation angered Roy, but unbeknownst to him, it was all an act. In actuality, Jenna paid Kaufer to act like a hitman to scare Roy, and later pretended to call off the hit as part of her sinister plan to manipulate Roy into killing Larry himself. Jenna's plan succeeds, and Roy ran down and killed Larry with his mother's car. Later on, the evil Jenna used the life insurance to buy her apartment, and during her interview with Detectives Mike Logan and Phil Cerretta, she acted like a grieving widow to cover up her true villainous demeanor.
Jenna was suspected after learning about her buying the apartment just days after the murder, and it was after finding the car following an interview with Roy's parents that Roy was taken in and arrested for Larry's murder. His story about the murder being Jenna's idea was shot down once Jenna revealed that while she paid to have Larry killed, she renounced the hit--part of Jenna's plan to cover her tracks. She also claimed that she ended her affair with Roy and portrayed her lover as being obsessed with her afterwards. Kaufer corroborating Jenna's story also made it appear that Roy acted alone in Larry's murder, but Paul Robinette's investigation into Kaufer's claim that Larry's bet on the playoffs motivated him to keep the money revealed Kaufer and Jenna's true collusion.
Kaufer was in jail during the NFL and MLB playoffs, and it was actually the Stanley Cup Playoffs that Larry bet on. After this, Kaufer revealed the truth: that there was no hit and that Jenna paid him to act like a hitman so Jenna could manipulate Roy into killing Larry, doing so under the false pretense of the illicit couple staying together. After Kaufer's revelation, Logan handcuffed and arrested Jenna for her true role in her husband's murder.
Category:1990s
Category:Adulteress
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Callous
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Greedy
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Master Manipulator
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Pervert
Category:Teacher
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested