In both the short story and Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of “Lamb to the Slaughter”, by Roald Dahl, the important plot elements of the short story stayed about the same. Mary Maloney was a pregnant housewife in the 1950’s who murdered her husband because he wanted to leave her. She was obsessive about their relationship and overwhelmed with such rage and disbelief about his decision to leave her, that she killed him. Mary covered it up by going out to buy groceries and pretending that she came back and found him dead. The detectives in the story never suspected her, they choose not to believe that a sweet innocent woman such as Mary could murder her husband in cold blood. Mary and Patrick seemed like the perfect couple on the outside,
