# "Abused Wife fakes death" movie- name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2012, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234 "2012-08-12T01:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/21 "2018-01-25T20:35:34Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I once had a discussion with a bunch of mystery authors, male and female, where we all kind of agreed that almost anyone who’s ever been married will sort of understand this mentality of divorce: never; murder: maybe. No doubt why these plots come up year after year. They resonate. [”When I watch you eat, when I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in!”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?&v=Z3gYqHVMndE&t=1m3s) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/22 "2018-01-25T21:34:37Z")
> [@TheBoltEater](#): > > So she’s too Catholic to divorce him… but cold-blooded first degree murder is just fine! John Wayne Bobbit ticked off a Catholic woman. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/23 "2018-01-26T20:12:31Z")
> [@TheBoltEater](#): > > So she’s too Catholic to divorce him… but cold-blooded first degree murder is just fine! Wasn’t there some airhead bimbo that got caught on the TV show _Cops_ in a sting operation trying to hire a hitman to kill her boyfriend because she didn’t want to hurt his feelings by breaking up with him? I remember that from somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/24 "2018-01-26T20:31:05Z")
[The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare.](http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/winterstale/summary/) Not his best work, but it did have the stage direction “Exit pursued by a bear”. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/25 "2018-01-28T06:24:12Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > John Wayne Bobbit ticked off a Catholic woman. :eek: Good thing my wife’s a Methodist. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2018, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/26 "2018-01-28T06:43:25Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I once had a discussion with a bunch of mystery authors, male and female, where we all kind of agreed that almost anyone who’s ever been married will sort of understand this mentality of divorce: never; murder: maybe. No doubt why these plots come up year after year. They resonate. [Ripped from the headlines](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/01/26/church-elder-allegedly-killed-his-wife-because-his-religion-wont-allow-divorce/). ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/27 "2018-01-30T05:15:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Ripped from the headlines](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/01/26/church-elder-allegedly-killed-his-wife-because-his-religion-wont-allow-divorce/). That’s amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/28 "2018-01-30T15:21:00Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [Ripped from the headlines](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/01/26/church-elder-allegedly-killed-his-wife-because-his-religion-wont-allow-divorce/). More amazing is that he somehow managed to successfully cheat using Ashley Madison. Based on the demographics uncovered when the site was hacked, that was like winning the lottery! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234/29 "2018-02-01T19:37:42Z")
Didn’t Double Jeopardy have such a thing as part of it’s premise (along with a big misunderstanding of the title term)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abused-wife-fakes-death-movie-name/631234.md?page=1)