A little Test

She didn't know how to contact him, but she did know that he knew the family somehow. If there was another funeral, he might just show up again. Of course, the easiest thing to do would be to ask some other members of the family.

She was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again.

Beano

two psychos and counting.....

He was her sisters husband - she killed the sister to get the husband.

She wanted her sister's share of her mother's money.

On the basis that there is seldom redundant data in these conundra but that the data is often incomplete, I suggest:

(a) The younger women are half-sisters, with the same mother, and having no routine contact. The funeral brought them together.

(b) The man is the murdered sister's husband. The killing is for the obvious reason.

Wrong probably, but my starter for 10.

Fraser

It states that he remained unknown.

Alternative suggestion: her sister had 'dragged up' for the funeral and was the 'bloke' that she fancied.

Or.... her sister also thought him to be her dream guy, but was prettier, wealthier and a famous film star, and had the means to find him. Maybe after living in her shadow all her life it was the last straw.
Falling in love with someone without even speaking to them or knowing them is irrational though, so it's not likely to be for a rational reason.

I agree with Rasher's and Beano's first explanation - she is a psycho.

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I agree with Rasher's and Beano's first explanation - she is a psycho.

Actually, I agree with Cyrene

Did she find God at the funeral?

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Originally posted by Howlinhounddog:

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I agree with Rasher's and Beano's first explanation - she is a psycho.

Actually, I agree with Cyrene

You paid attention in A-Level psychology too then?

She fell in love with the undertaker?

Or maybe it's as simple as she was hoping the guy would appear at the funeral again?

Maybe the mystery man made her pregnant of her sister. In some meaning of 'sister'.

She killed her sister with a candlestick in the dining room whilst trying to extract the phone number of the dream guy from her sister whom she believed to be...she's pyscho.

I think I will leave this open till tomorrow night as it is interesting to see the answers.

Probably all wrong, but worth adding to get people thinking out the box:-

1 - having killed her mother, the sister found out, so she killed her. The man is an undercover cop...
2 - The sister is a cross-dresser and the guy was the sister in drag...
3 - The sister killed the mother, so she killed her sister in revenge...
4 - the mum had a sex change and faked her own death to go into witness protection to escape her daughter who she new was a killer...
5 - she, in a Kate Moss-esque frenzy turned up to the funeral out of her head on crack and imagined the guy. She then had another drug-fuelled episode and killed her sister.

I think I need to stop watching CSI...

Regards, Jon

It suddenly dawned on me that the most obvious question remains unchallenged: why was this guy at the funeral? We suppose that he knew the mother, but we also have to assume that he is of a generation younger as he is attractive to the daughter, so who is he to the mother? Chances are that he isn't anything to the mother, he's connected to the sister as the daughter doesn't know him. This must be the missing connection. The problem is that he still remains unknown to the daughter (I'm still paying attention to the facts) so she can't make a connection between them herself, so maybe the outcome was initiated by the sister, which would make the killing self-defense? The only remaining problem now is the question "what was her motive for killing her sister?" and I'm not sure that self-defense comes under the term "motive for killing" which suggests an aggressive act, not defensive. This leads me to again rule out rational thinking on behalf of the daughter as she has no connection between the guy and the sister. That leaves the killing of the sister to be purely sacrificial, which suggests that I stand by my first answer.

Rasher,

See my #2. I think your rationale fits the bill perfectly!

BR, Jon

But why kill her? We could have had a bit of girl-on-girl action! Oh hang on, they're sisters!..oh fuck it...who cares!

Either the man is a red herring, and she killed her sister in a rage of GREED for an extra share of the estate, OR her sister got it on with the man, and was killed in a rage of JEALOUSY.
Either way a raging whacko...

OR

She was a nun.

I'll get my coat.

Come on lads. The end of the movie 'Chinatown'? Morning-after pill?