Maria Turnscrew

**Maria Turnscrew** (1933-2009) was the victim in The Slap of Death (Case #3 of Web of Lies).

## Description

Maria was a 76-year-old senior home resident as well as the wife of Pierre Turnscrew.

## Murder Details

Maria was found with several bash wounds on her head while lying in a pile of snow with a bloody shovel nearby. When we took her to the morgue, we were told that the wounds to her head were done quickly and swift and that the killer bashed her a total of seventeen times, even though she died after the first blow. We realized that this killer really had to have had something against Maria and we felt bad for the poor old lady. We were then told that there were traces of gold stag whiskey on the shovel handle, and since Maria only had water in her system at the time of her murder, it had to have been the killer who drank gold stag whiskey.

## Relationship with Suspects

Maria was put in a senior home by her husband Pierre Turnscrew who was infuriated by her severe dementia and how she forgot entirely about him and their marriage for over fifty years. While she was in the senior home, however, Maria caused a lot of trouble. Maria nearly got librarian Dominick Wright fired because she didn't like how young he was, so she called the library's owner and lied to them about Dominick misbehaving and constantly drinking while at work. This caused Maria to be banned from the library after the owner found out that she was lying. Maria also sent several death threats to Eagle News journalist and released convict Fabian Marc-Holmann because she didn't like his reporting and was unamused by the fact that he was a released murderer. Maria also trash-talked FriendBook and made several people stop using the app, which made FriendBook CEO Brad Halliday lose a lot of money. Maria also set free several injured animals under veterinarian Evelyn Tarik's care and killed them for fun.

## Killer and Motives

The killer turned out to be Brad.

Upon admitting to the murder, Brad said that he couldn't take seeing Maria's face anymore after he saw her badmouthing his app. Brad said that the pain he faced at Maria's hands lasted his entire life, even when he was a kid. Brad then told us that Maria was his neighbor growing up and that she convinced his parents that he was helping her with chores around her house when in reality she kept bullying, harassing, and beating him up and blackmailed Brad into telling his parents that bullies at school did it. He tried telling his parents once, but they didn't believe him. Not even Pierre suspected anything because he was always out and about, but Brad remembers him being really nice. Brad later got his act together and aced high school with flying colors and got into a good college to get away from Maria. However, after she went to her senior home and Brad's FriendBook app was a big success, Maria realized that Brad was in charge of it and bashed it to keep him down. Brad said that as soon as he saw her walking in the snow, she started poking fun at him and calling him a weakling, like old times. Brad couldn't take it anymore and decided to show her who the weak one was.

Brad was sentenced to 25 years in a psychiatric hospital.

## Case Appearances

* The Slap of Death (Case #3 of Web of Lies)

## Trivia

* Maria appeared in one case.
* Maria appeared in one district in Web of Lies.
* Maria appeared in one season.

## Gallery

Maria, as she appeared in The Slap of Death (Case #3 of Web of Lies).Brad Halliday, Maria's killer.Pierre Turnscrew, Maria's husband.