Laura Downing (Murder, She Wrote)

Laura Downing (Donna Bullock) is the main villainess from "Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice," episode 9.07 of Murder, She Wrote (airdate November 29, 1992).
Laura Downing is the assistant to bank executive Paul Marlowe, who was secretly planning to sell important business details to Hong Kong. He had saved them on a disk, which Laura was planning to acquire for herself and sell. She had planned to kill him with her own gun, which she kept in her purse. However, when Laura saw Paul knock out Michael Hagerty (who was tracking Paul and is the father of Paul's fiancee, Andrea Cromwell), the scheming villainess took the opportunity to take Michael's gun from the scene and kill Paul, which resulted in Michael being charged in the murder.
Laura later ransacked Andrea's hotel room looking for the disk, as she noticed Paul placing it inside a jewelry box that contained a pearl necklace (a gift for Andrea). Andrea and Jessica Fletcher set a trap to catch Laura, which ended up with Laura pointing her gun at both women while boldly confessing to the murder. Just as she was about to kill Andrea and Jessica, police arrive and arrest Laura.
== Trivia ==
* Donna Bullock later played villainess Nancy Pierson on Matlock.
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Category:1990s
Category:Attempted Murder
Category:Brunette
Category:Business Villainess
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Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
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Category:Murderer
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Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested