spouse murder theme
One spouse in a married couple seeks to bring about the death of their partner.
Examples
In nightgallery2x19b "Stop Killing Me", Francis Turchin arrives at the local police station to explain that her husband is actively murdering her by a most unusual method: By making frequent remarks about killing her he is instilling in her such anxiety that she will, within a week no less, fail to pay attention to her surroundings and suffer a deadly accident.
208 total · 31 choice · 128 major · 48 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x10 | choice | Accidentally or intentionally, in a flash of rage Paul pushed his wife off the yacht they were on after she said she was leaving him for someone else. |
| ahh2x11 | choice | As alluded to in the title, the story concerns spouse murder albeit in a more than usually confounded way: Gerald convinced his disagreeable wife, Edith, that he was planning to murder her. But this was all a ruse to provoke her into making an attempt on his own life under circumstances that would see her imprisoned. |
| ahh2x19 | choice | As alluded to in the tile, this is a story about murders. Lee and Diana plotted to do away with Diana's rich old husband. Note that while Diana tried to keep herself aloof from the sordid details of the murder, her tacit approval of if makes her an accomplice and the rule of thumb is to use "spouse murder" in this situation. In the end, it is strongly implied that Charles was the one that had Diana murdered and stashed in Lee's car, before Lee got to him. |
| ahh2x20 | choice | The title alludes to a psychologist's alleged experiment to determine whether more men or more women are prepared to knock off their spouses, should they be presented with the opportunity to do so without dirtying their own hands. The story progresses to him attempting to murder his own disagreeable wife. |
| ahh2x23 | choice | A theme alluded to in the title: Sheridan brutally murdered his nagging wife and tried to dump her body in a nearby lake. |
| ahh3x02 | choice | Keith Hollin killed his wife, Elsa, and hid her corpse under the cement in the basement in his new beach house. He was rather quickly found out, however, because Elsa had just alarmed the police to the fact that the previous owner had done the very same thing to his own wife. |
| ahh3x07 | choice | The main motif in the story was John McGregor racking his mind over what to do about his fat, lazy, abusive and alcoholic wife and qualms about killing her by leaving her at the door of two men he knew would do the job for him. In one notable scene, John played out his his mind how dispatching his wife by means of strangling, drowning, and hanging were all bound to fail. |
| ahh3x27 | choice | Martha thought Luke was a spouse murderer who planned on repeating his evil deed. She therefore bought a gun and shot him pre-empively, only to find that he had merely been preparing a fancy Christmas present for her. |
| ahp1x11 | choice | Amelia killed her husband Ben after she found out he planned to leave her for her neighbor Dorthy. |
| ahp1x23 | choice | Herbert killed Hermione and buried her in the cellar just before their indefinite trip to Los Angeles. |