Gretchen Price (Murder, She Wrote)

Gretchen Price (Judith Hoag) is a villainess from "Programmed for Murder," episode 8.18 of Murder, She Wrote (airdate April 5, 1992). She was introduced as the lover of Doug Simmons, the brother of the episode's main protagonist, Harriet Simmons Wooster. In actuality, Gretchen was the villainous mistress of Harriet's husband, Allan Wooster.
A year prior to the episode's events, Doug had inadvertently introduced Allan to Gretchen, and that was when the illicit affair began. The couple then set up their plan to kill Harriet, which included Allan slowly poisoning his wife with a herbicide. All the while, the evil Gretchen posed as Harriet and donated blood, as she had the same blood type (AB) as Harriet. After Gretchen's blood was officially registered into the blood bank, Allan delivered the fatal dose of herbicide, resulting in Harriet's death.
Gretchen's reveal came when Jessica Fletcher asked the villainess to give Doug (believing that he was her accomplice) a message stating that she believes that John Halsey killed Harriet, and they are waiting for the test results. To Jessica's surprise, she sees Gretchen reporting to Allan, who informed Gretchen that she had been tricked. Allan was correct, as Jessica appeared with Sheriff Metzger, who arrested Allan and Gretchen. The couple confessed to the plot after their arrest, right before they were taken away.
== Trivia ==
* Judith Hoag made another villainous appearance on Murder, She Wrote, playing murderess Nancy Godfrey in Season Eleven's "To Kill a Legend."
* Judith Hoag later appeared on The Mentalist as psychotic villainess Sandra Boatwright and Women's Murder Club as the evil Dr. Raine Van Aiken, and also appeared in the film Sexting in Suburbia as hidden villainess Patricia Reid, and Castle as the villainous Cynthia Hamilton.
Category:1990s
Category:Adulteress
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Femme Fatale
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Redhead
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested