4. Lie, Lie, And Then Lie Some More (To Die For, 1995)
When in doubt, remember that youre already a murderer. You might as well be a liar too. In To Die For, ambitious wife Suzanne decides that her husband Larry is stifling her career and killing her dreams. He needs to go She manipulates a high school student and his friends into doing the deed, claiming that Larry is a violent and abusive spouse. The three kids are implicated in the crime and point the finger at her, wearing a wire to cause her to admit to her part in the murder on tape. The problem is that this constitutes entrapment, and Suzannes lawyer successfully has it omitted from the evidence on the grounds that its inadmissible. Suzanne goes free, and to ensure that no stain remains on her reputation, fabricates a story to the media about Larry being a secret drug dealer, and having been murdered by his peers in the trade. The stage is set for her ambitions to be realised, as shes successfully painted herself the victim, and her dead husband as just another culprit. Of course, shes not to know that her father-in-law will twig that shes lying upon watching her interviewed on the news, or that hell have the mob connections necessary to simply have her killed in her turn. The plan was sound, Suzanne. The plan was sound.