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June 2006
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Mystery Woman Sleuth | Romance Suspense
Fatal Blaze? โThe Bride Who Cried.โ That was the title of the dinner- theater murder mystery presented at Marylandโs luxurious Harbourtowne resort on Valentineโs Day weekend, 1998. But no tears were being shed by Kimberly Hricko at 3 a.m. when she reported a fire in the room she shared with her husband, Stephen. Rescuers found him dead, badly burned around the upper body. It seemed that heโd fallen asleep while smoking a cigar, sparking off an inferno. Staged Murder But Kimberlyโs efforts to play the part of an innocent widow quickly began to unravel. Sleuths learned that she had been having an affair with a man ten years her junior. She also stood to inherit $400,000 on her husbandโs deathโ and had tried to bribe a coworker to kill Stephen for $50,000. In the courtroom, prosecutors argued that Kimberly injected her sleeping spouse with a lethal dose of muscle relaxant and set the fire to cover her tracks. For a cold-blooded killer who acted without remorse, there could only be one verdictโฆ
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