Kate Gunnerson (Murder, She Wrote)

Kate Gunnerson (Marie Windsor; 1919-2000) is a villainess from "The Cemetery Vote," the antepenultimate episode of Murder, She Wrote's third season (airdate April 5, 1987). She is the owner of a bar in Comstock, Idaho.
As the episode also reveals, Kate is also the leader of an illegal gambling ring, which she runs inside her bar. Her criminal activities were suspected by then-Mayor Jim Stevens, but she was warned about Stevens' investigation by Councilman David Carroll, who later killed Stevens by tampering with his car. In the aftermath, the evil Kate covered up Stevens' murder, along with corrupt sheriff Orville Yates, who posed the death as an accident.
Kate had engaged in another phone conversation with Carroll, which was overheard by Harry Stevens, who had been seeking answers regarding his son's murder. The call led Harry to realize Carroll's role in Stevens' death, and he ended up killed by Carroll as well. Kate was shown being arrested at her bar by Captain Ernest Lenko, who answered Carroll's call (part of Jessica Fletcher's trap) to the bar and informed him of his cohorts' arrest.
==Trivia==
*Marie Windsor appeared as Madame Rontru in the 1955 comedy adventure "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy".
Category:1980s
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Brunette
Category:Business Villainess
Category:Conspirator
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Fate: Arrested