Emma Immerhoffer (The Golden Girls)

Emma Immerhoffer is an unseen villainess from "Yokel Hero", episode 4.04 of The Golden Girls (airdate November 5, 1988). She was a woman who lived in the town of St. Olaf, Minnesota; the hometown of Rose Nylund.
The episode's events have Rose travelling with her roommates (Dorothy Zbornak, Blanche Devereaux, and Sophia Petrillo) to St. Olaf after she won the title of "St. Olaf Woman of the Year", with Rose learning on the horse-drawn shuttle to St. Olaf that she had beaten out Emma for the title. Both the shuttle driver and Rose were stunned to learn about this, with the former revealing that Emma was known in St. Olaf for running St. Olaf's orphanage in addition to taking in the homeless and running soup kitchens.
As Rose marveled at having beaten Emma, who she described as a saint, Dorothy and Blanche confessed to having stretched the truth on the application Rose submitted for the award, leading Rose to back out of accepting the award to preserve her integrity. But during the episode's conclusion, Rose was shocked when she was mailed the "St. Olaf Woman of the Year" trophy. When Sophia asked what happened with Emma, Rose revealed that she was disqualified when a "skeleton in her closet" was found--that being the actual skeleton of her husband. This served as Emma's reveal as a murderous villainess, having killed her husband for unknown reasons before hiding his body in her closet. While Emma's fate is not explicity stated, it can be assumed she was arrested after her sinister secret was uncovered.
Category:1980s
Category:Hero's Lover
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Murderer
Category:Unseen
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested