Katherine Barlow

Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow is a major antagonist in the 2003 live-action film, Holes.
==Background==
===Personality===
===Physical Appearance===
Katherine was a woman with blond hair and green eyes and was very beautiful. Even as an older woman, her hair remained long and had turned white. She also had been wrinkled.
==Role in Holes==
Katherine Barlow was the school teacher at Green Lake. She was friends with Sam the Onion Man, a black man, an admired teacher, and was famous for her cans of spicy peaches. Katherine was unwillingly pursued by Trout Walker but rejects him every time. She fell in love with Sam, who also genuinely came to care for her too. However, after kissing each other in while Trout was riding by (in the book, it was a student of Katherine's who witnessed it. Following her lover's death, Katherine murdered the local  sheriff, who had refused to help her from saving the local school house. She began a killing spree and became known as "Kissing Kate Barlow." She only kissed the men she killed. At one point, she robbed Stanley Yelnats I and left him for dead.
Katherine later buried the treasure filled with money and other treasures from banks that Katherine robbed where Camp Green Lake would be built.
Before her death, Barlow was confronted by Trout Walker and his young wife and Katherine's former student, Linda Miller. She cursed the Walkers, their children, and grandchildren to dig the next 100 years and still not find it. She took a yellow-spotted lizard and let it bite her. (In the book, she is accidentally bitten). Barlow dies a slow and terrible death and dies while laughing.
Her  treasure was eventually found by Stanley Yelnats IV and his friend, Hector Zeroni based on the fact that Kate's loot was in the chest that once belonged to Stanley's great-grandfather. The money helped the Yelnats finance for Sploosh, an invention of Stanley Yelnats III. With Hector's share of the treasure, he was able to hire a team of private investigators who helped him find his mother, Mrs. Zeroni, who had been searching for her son as well. Together, they financed two bigger houses that were side by side. 
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