Valeria Hernandez (The Mysteries of Laura)

Valeria Hernandez (Marta Milans) is the hidden villainess of "The Mystery of the Political Operation", episode 2.14 of The Mysteries of Laura (airdate February 17, 2016). She was the wife of Cuban delegate and heir to the Cuban presidency Carlos Hernandez, who was visiting New York as part of his goal of improving relations between Cuba and the United States. Laura Diamond and her detectives were assigned to protect Carlos during his stay in New York, and it was during his visit that his bodyguard Ernesto Garcia was murdered, which the team was led to believe was part of an assassination attempt on Carlos.
But unbeknownst to Carlos, Valeria was having an affair with Yasiel Leon, Carlos' friend and head accountant, and the two were planning to kill Carlos so that they could be together and Valeria would become the heir apparent. When Ernesto found out about the affair, Yasiel killed him and stole his diplomatic pouch to make the murder appear to be a robbery. All the while, the evil Valeria acted as a concerned and loving wife to Carlos, successfully masking her true persona. In order to stage Carlos' death as accidental, the evil lovers plotted to commit their murder during Carlos' upcoming heart bypass surgery, for which Yasiel would be serving as the head surgeon.
Valeria's villainous reveal came when Laura and her detectives arrived at the hospital right as the surgery was beginning, it having been kept secret to protect Carlos' political career. While talking with Valeria about the surgery, Laura found Yasiel's cufflink in her purse and noticed her applying the waterproof mascara she had received from Carlos' media consultant. This, along with Billy realizing that the phrase "El Pintor" (which they had read in Ernesto's notes from his phone) was Cuban slang for a woman cheating on her husband, allowed Laura to uncover Valeria's infidelity and plot to murder her husband.
Laura and detective Billy Soto were able to subdue Yasiel before he could begin the surgery, him having doused Carlos' anesthesia with blood thinner so he would bleed to death. He and Valeria were arrested and brought to the station, where Valeria tried to argue that they had diplomatic immunity and thus couldn't be charged. But at that moment, ADA Jennifer Lambert revealed that she had just made an agreement to have Valeria and Yasiel extradited back to Cuba, where they would face charges for murdering Ernesto and attempting to murder Carlos.
==Trivia==
*Valeria Hernandez is the final one-shot villainess of The Mysteries of Laura.
==Gallery==
Valeria Hernandez arrested.png|Valeria arrested alongside Yasiel
Category:2010s
Category:Adulteress
Category:Ambitious
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Betrayer
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Murderer
Category:Politics
Category:Villain's Lover
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested