Sharon Baskin (Murder, She Wrote)

Sharon Baskin (Julia Campbell) is the main villainess in the Murder, She Wrote episode "A Virtual Murder" (S10E05). She was the former lover of fellow Marathon computer technician Michael Burke.
Ever since Michael and Sharon broke up, Sharon was obsessed in fulfilling Michael's dream — to successfully design a virtual reality video game. Sharon's obsession drove her to stand up against Michael's business partner James Lindstrom when there was a glitch in the virtual reality game based on one of Jessica Fletcher's novel "A Killing At Hastings' Rock".
However, when Sharon had discovered that James was, in fact, a spy for competitor Charles Kroll, and that James intended to ruin Michael's game. Sharon's psychotic obsession motivated her to plan James' murder — it began when Sharon stole James' gun as a diversion for the police, not knowing Michael's prints were on it. Then, during the reception, James went to one of the virtual reality booth and was lost in his own world, giving Sharon an opportunity to shoot James in the head. Sharon then dumped the gun in the shrubbery and headed back to the reception.
Towards the resolution of the episode, Jessica had weaved a trap to reveal Sharon as the killer, by using her love for Michael against her. Jessica, with the help of her friend Alex Porter, concocted a riddle for Sharon to solve that indicated that James installed a virus in the computer game. Sharon snuck into the computer lab and met up with James' partner in spying for Kroll, David Salt. Sharon took out the system codes, which James always had with him until he died. She forced Salt to use the codes to eliminate the so called virus. The psychotic Sharon then pointed her gun at Salt, intending to kill him, too for Michael's sake. But the police and Jessica appeared and revealed that there was no virus in the game. What evidence that tripped up Sharon in killing James was her own words — she claimed to have heard James being paged. But she could not have heard the paging call anywhere, unless she was near the booth with James. Sharon eventually confessed and was incarcerated for murder.
Category:Psychotic
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Murderer
Category:Murder: Gun
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Brunette
Category:1990s
Category:Fate: Arrested
Category:Pistol