Diana Malkin (Bones)

Diana Malkin (Amy Yasbeck) is the main villainess from "The Archaeologist in the Cocoon," episode 8.11 of Bones (airdate January 14, 2013). She is a publisher who had archaeologist James Sutton as a client, having published many of his books.
Sutton was also an adventurer (drawing comparisons to the fictional Indiana Jones), often writing adventure-styled books and selling a featured artifact from each book for profit, with Diana sharing James' profits. However, while on a job in Chechnya, where he met his wife, Marina (who carried his child), Sutton found ancient human bones of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens living together. Having found a genuine piece of history, Sutton phoned Diana about the find, and he later published a journal about his discovery--for no pay.
Diana was left angry over being left out of Sutton's find, as well as him publishing the journal for free, leading to a confrontation between her and Sutton. Diana turned heel by killing Sutton, using one of her bookends as a weapon and slicing Sutton's armpit, causing him to bleed to death. After killing Sutton, the evil Diana placed Sutton's body in his car and drove it to a wooded area, intentionally setting up Sutton's death as accident, with the body tossed in a tree. A parachutist found Sutton's body, leading to the Jeffersonian crew being on the investigation.
Among the list of suspects was Marina's brother, Artur Tovah, when it was revealed that their father had Sutton whipped due to them not wanting Marina to marry a foreigner. However, book binder's linen found on the body led to Diana, who made various attempts to deny killing Sutton--even claiming that the blood splatter found by Dr. Temperance Brennan was caused by her cutting her foot on a rock. When Seeley Booth noticed that one of her bookends was missing, Diana confessed to killing Sutton. Brennan believed that Marina was a reason, but Diana stated that the true reason was that she felt betrayed by Sutton when he published his journal and left her out of his findings, after which Booth handcuffed and arrested Diana for Sutton's murder.
Category:2010s
Category:Bondage Used On Villainess
Category:Callous
Category:Deceiver
Category:Greedy
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Makeshift Weapon
Category:Murderer
Category:Redhead
Category:Villainous Reveal
Category:Fate: Arrested