Cause And Effect Essay On Mary Maloney

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On the evening of Thursday, July 7th, 1990 detective Patrick was murdered in his house. It was Patrick himself who had been murdered by his wife, Mary Maloney. It was reported that she murdered him with a frozen leg of lamb. The reason of the murder was that Patrick cheated on her and had asked for a divorce.
Police inquired close by stores and neighbours of Patrick’s home, according to the investigation, they were told that Maloney visited the grocery store before the discovery of the murder. The grocery store worker, Sam said, “She seemed to be so casual, I can’t believe that she was the cause of the murder.” “She had told me that Patrick didn’t want to go out since it was Thursday so she had to come get some vegetables to cook for him.”
According to Police Officer, Sergeant Noonan, who had been working on the case, he had said, “she was really sad when we arrived, she offered us
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This was a shock to the police officers as she seemed like a kind woman and it seemed almost impossible for this to have happened because of her casualty.
Mary Maloney made full contributions to the questions they had asked; she said that she killed Patrick with a frozen leg of a lamb. According to Mary Maloney, “I didn’t know what was happening to me when Patrick told me that he wanted a divorce and that he was cheating on me, I didn’t’ think and I just killed him without a moment to spare.”
Mary Maloney is an orphan; she has no one to support her in this case. Mary had known what would be the punishment of this crime as she was a detective’s wife, but still she was terrified of what was to happen. She is afraid that she can no longer live with the only relation she has which is her child after she comes from jail. Everyone who knows about this case is waiting eagerly to find out what is going to happen to Mary Maloney and her

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