# Okay, we know Jessica Fletcher was a serial killer. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2015, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857 "2015-05-26T07:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/21 "2015-05-28T08:55:05Z")
Why didn’t Will Robinson wish everybody back to Earth like he wished all of those people into the cornfield? ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/22 "2015-05-28T13:12:53Z")
Why didn’t Will Robinson’s mom sic Lassie on Dr Smith? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/23 "2015-05-28T17:20:59Z")
Lassie was busy helping Frau Blucher (neighhhhhhh!) reanimate Frank Barrone. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/24 "2015-05-28T20:32:43Z")
Why couldn’t Uncle Martin use his martian powers to keep Lt Dan from falling down the steep wall of the gully? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/25 "2015-05-28T21:35:22Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > Why couldn’t Uncle Martin use his martian powers to keep Lt Dan from falling down the steep wall of the gully? Because Tim O’Hara’s son Eddie annoyed Tim so much that he turned into the Hulk and beat up Uncle Martin something awful before Mrs. Livingston could calm him down. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/26 "2015-05-28T21:45:57Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > Why couldn’t Uncle Martin use his martian powers to keep Lt Dan from falling down the steep wall of the gully? Probably because he ate a couple of the brownies that Spicoli offered him. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/27 "2015-05-28T21:50:27Z")
> [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](#): > > Why didn’t Will Robinson’s mom sic Lassie on Dr Smith? His Mom was a doctor herself, at that little hotel called the Shady Rest. She must have married a Minbari, too, since her son Timmy grew a bony head and became a Ranger. (she never did figure out why her hubby was always scratching “Z” on everything!) ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/28 "2015-05-29T02:31:50Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/29 "2015-05-29T08:31:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Was this show chosen intentionally, Horatio? Gavan O’Herlihy, who played Chuck Cunningham, also appeared in the Voyager pilot. Really? Wow. Did he get killed there too? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/30 "2015-05-29T09:09:30Z")
Everybody knows that Jessica only started killing to keep people from finding out that she was a Chinese agent. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/31 "2015-05-29T15:06:47Z")
Instead of plopping her baby on Frodo’s vespa, why didn’t Lt Tasha Yarr simply beam her whole family up out of the path of the wave? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/32 "2015-05-29T16:10:36Z")
Remember when Joe Friday was suspended by Internal Affairs for having such smelly shoes? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/33 "2015-05-29T20:04:40Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Really? Wow. Did [Gavan O’Herlihy] get killed there too? Nope: [Jabin | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Jabin) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/34 "2015-05-29T21:13:45Z")
How did a jukebox repairman ever acquire a spaceship? And why was he enamored of a lizard hooker who’s married to a sleeper Al-Qaeda agent? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/35 "2015-05-30T00:46:11Z")
What did Dr. Doug Ross do that got him put on a chain gang and where did he learn to sing “Man of Constant Sorrow”? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/36 "2015-05-30T04:56:12Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > What did Dr. Doug Ross do that got him put on a chain gang and where did he learn to sing “Man of Constant Sorrow”? Hello?? Those girls at that boarding school were UNDERAGE! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/37 "2015-05-30T12:52:04Z")
One of these days, Siegfried will drop his disguise as the kindly ship doctor and blow up the Pacific Princess. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/38 "2015-05-30T18:19:47Z")
When Adam Cartwright went East to school, did any of the Cartwrights know he’d finish medical school, serve in to Korea, and have a successful medical career in San Francisco. And his little brother Joe would end up with a bunch of daughters in a godforsaken prairie? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/39 "2015-05-30T18:23:24Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > One of these days, Siegfried will drop his disguise as the kindly ship doctor and blow up the Pacific Princess. No, Gopher and the Monster Squad will stop him. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/40 "2015-05-31T02:14:10Z")
“OK, Sam, your name is Captain Jonathan Archer and you’re in command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NX-01. Ziggy says there’s a 93% probability that you’re here to forge an alliance of alien civilizations and form a United Federation of Planets. But before that, you have to stop a group of aliens called the Xindi from destroying all life on Earth with a superweapon.” “But Al, how can that even be possible? I’m not going to be alive in two hundred years. You know I can only Leap within my own lifetime.” “I know that, Sam. But remember when you leapt into that ancestor during the Civil War? Ziggy says this Captain Archer is likely to be your descendant. Or maybe you’re being dragged into the middle of some kind of temporal cold war. Ziggy’s giving me conflicting data. He’s been acting a little ca-ca lately.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857.md?page=3)