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Personal Narrative: A Spontaneous Murder
think this was very spontaneous murder. She was very upset about how her husband was leaving her, and when she came back inside with the frozen lamb leg she was desperate and her husband said "try and stop me!" I also think that a small part of it was her being intimidated by her husband thinking that she was weak. The police thought that they were dealing with basically a hit and run by a robber that got caught by her husband and the robber just decided to kill him. They also thought they had two victims but in the suspenseful irony we know that Mary killed

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