Sandy Walsh (Crossing Jordan)

Sandy Walsh (Mireille Enos) is the villainess of "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", episode 6.04 of Crossing Jordan (airdate February 11, 2007). She was the wife of Colin Walsh, a Las Vegas boxer who was found dead in a dumpster after winning a match against his old rival, Tommy O'Reilly.
Believing Tommy to have killed Colin, detective Woody Hoyt and M.E. Jordan Cavanaugh went to question him--and were surprised to catch him preparing to have sex with Sandy, revealing the two as lovers. After putting her clothes on, Sandy defended her affair and attempted tryst with Tommy so soon after her husband's death by claiming she was doing so to numb her grief and also revealed that she, Tommy, and Colin had been friends.
Later on, the investigation proved that Colin's death was a result of poisoning, not from injuries he sustained during the fight. It was also revealed that Colin's coach, Mickey Rowan, had poisoned him with fentanyl--provided to him by Sandy after she stole them from Colin's doctor. Regarding a motive, Colin was developing dementia as a result of the head injuries he sustained during his career and Sandy wanted to kill him to gain his life insurance money before his condition forced him to retire. Sandy convinced Mickey to poison Colin, claiming she didn't want Colin to have to suffer from the disease and his career coming to an end. When Mickey later found out about her true motivation, the evil Sandy killed Mickey at his gym by stabbing him with a pair of scissors.
DNA evidence led to Mickey being revealed as Colin's killer, and the discovery of Colin's brain damage led to Sandy being revealed as the mastermind behind her husband's death. Sandy was brought in for questioning from Jordan and Woody, along with Danny McCoy (an old friend of Colin and Sandy's). Initially, Sandy tried to pin Mickey as the true mastermind behind Colin's murder and claimed she did so out to "let him go out a champ". But once the three revealed that they had found Colin's life insurance policy, Sandy confessed to killing her husband, stating that she would've lost everything if Colin's career ended. Sandy was then arrested (offscreen) for Colin and Mickey's murders.
==Trivia==
*Sandy Walsh is similar to Parris Donovan, a villainess from Women's Murder Club; both are the wives of professional athletes who kill their husbands when they develop a debilitating illness that threatens to end their lucrative careers. A difference between the women is that Parris killed her husband herself, while Sandy coerced someone else into murdering her husband.
Category:2000s
Category:Adulteress
Category:Conspirator
Category:Deceiver
Category:Greedy
Category:Hero's Friend
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Makeshift Weapon
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Indirect
Category:Murder: Stabbing
Category:Redhead
Category:Thief
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested