# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**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 31, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/41 "2015-05-31T21:15:37Z")
Will Ziggy at least let Archer take Murphy Brown with him? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/42 "2015-06-02T17:27:51Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > One of these days, Siegfried will drop his disguise as the kindly ship doctor and blow up the Pacific Princess. “Gopher, ziss is KAOS. Vee don’t LIMBO here!!!” ---
**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:** [June 2, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/43 "2015-06-02T22:18:24Z")
Here’s an interesting factoid. When Capt Steubing was a writer for Ted Baxter, Ted’s girlfriend’s (Georgia Engels) father (Benjamin Engels) was a USCG Vice Admiral and was the Atlantic Area Commander. Maybe that’s how Murray got that gig on the Pacific Princess? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/44 "2015-06-03T09:45:12Z")
What was Skynet up to when it sent a T-100 back to the Hyborian age to assassinate primitive religious leader Thulsa Doom? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/45 "2015-06-03T09:52:18Z")
Poor Det John McClane, he survived multiple encounters with criminals and terrorists, but after finally completing his psychology degree part time he gets killed by a disturbed former client. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/46 "2015-06-03T11:29:35Z")
It is too bad that Mr Kotter couldn’t have gotten through to Vincent Barbarino, as he would grow up to be a hitman (changing his name to Vince Vega) in the Wallace gang. He would come to a tragic end when shot in the bathroom by Det. John “Butch” McClane who had by that time became a professional boxer. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/47 "2015-06-03T12:57:14Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > It is too bad that Mr Kotter couldn’t have gotten through to Vincent Barbarino, as he would grow up to be a hitman (changing his name to Vince Vega) in the Wallace gang. He would come to a tragic end when shot in the bathroom by Det. John “Butch” McClane who had by that time became a professional boxer. That’s when the Scribe of God, needing a place to hide as an anonymous underling, interceded and sent him to head an L.A. detective agency full of misfits. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/48 "2015-06-03T13:27:26Z")
And long before, he went to wive it wealthily in Padua (wooing and marrying Martha Stewart): _“Yea, verily, we are married merrily … though at first warily, and unfortunately quite sterily.”_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/49 "2015-06-03T18:50:14Z")
Jim West got tired of battling Miguelito Loveless with six-guns, so he called in the Black Sheep squadron to take the little dwarf out once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/50 "2015-06-03T18:59:51Z")
After being shot, paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, Perry Mason vowed to stop defending criminals and start arresting them, taking the job of San Francisco Police Chief. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857/51 "2015-06-04T13:15:03Z")
Considering the incredibly stupid male dominated family Blossom Russo grew up in, it’s no wonder she changed her name, earned a Ph.D., and hooked up with the least macho guy she could find, and all his less-than-masculine friends. And has the hots for one of the guy’s girlfriend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-we-know-jessica-fletcher-was-a-serial-killer/720857.md?page=2)