“Journal Entry According to Mary Maloney”

Mary: I felt guilty and sad. But he was really outrageous, did I do any bad? Did I ill-treat him? I treated him so well. I cared about him in almost every single way. You see, I knew something was going wrong when he took out the wine he don’t usually drink and I knew he was tired so I decided to cook supper instead of going out to eat. I was very confused at that time. When he mentioned he wanted a divorce, I was… shocked. It happened all so quickly and swiftly. I was having his child and yet he said such an irresponsible thing! So, when he said, “Try to stop me!” I got all furious and took the lamb’s leg and wacked him in the head. I was pretty sure he could withstand the blow but little did I know he collapsed with a thud. I was astonished. I didn’t know what to do… I practiced my speech and my tone, trying to get it right so I could act normal. Seeing him on the ground makes me shiver. And so I decided to go outside to buy something so that the scene looked like I was not the murderer. I was, certainly as I was scared they would suspect that the whole thing was acted out. Lucky for me, the police were thinking that another person was the criminal and missed me. And they even ate the murder weapon without knowing that!