generally when somebody screw up and they go through three set of filter in the course of attempt at correction . the first order of social control be usually the family . when dad spot a roach clip on his son dresser and well and they sit down and have a good talk about it . mom may grind her daughter for not do the chore . the second order of control be the social network the screw up belongs to the friend and the peer and the community . friend try to talk sense to the guy . the community gossip about him ( or her ) . among the old order amish and you get shun if you do not straighten up and fly right . at west point you get the treatment . in high school nobody want to go to the prom with you . the third order of control involve secondary institution the police and psychiatrist and or and quien sabe . and the national security agency . in the case of marie or audrey or robbie or etc . and all three system fail for a long time and simply because it seem so hard to believe that a woman would kill her husband and try to poison her own child for insurance that be no more than modest . and and after all and mom have take her ail daughter to hospital after hospital . in light of all this and how could she have do it . well and she be able to do it precisely because she estimate just how extensive the parameter of normal behavior would be under these condition . of course the insurance policy weren not exactly grand . they couldn not be not if she be to escape suspicion . what would the control agents think if you take out a million dollar life insurance policy on your husband and he shortly blow up . likewise audrey or robbin or holly or mildred or gladys or candy have to take her ail daughter to hospital . you do not find arsenic poisoning if youre not look for it and whereas everyone who watch oprah know that you can anorexize yourself to death . what make this story more than ordinarily interest be the fact that mom be able to slip past all three level of social control with such facility . she be finally identify a a no goodnik by secondary institution but seem to have do not much more than dye her hair and scoot away to florida and where she be able and without a great deal of trouble and to seduce and marry an over size deadhead and finagle him into move to vermont . ( i like snow . ) then and this really bespeak contempt for agent of social control she confide to friend and husband that she have an incurable blood disease and must go to texas for treatment . she do . and pass away . it isn not long before hubby get a phone call from audrey twin sister and and then a visit from her and and then a roll in the hay too . can you believe the arrogance of this woman . she actually believe that she can pass for her own sister . and can you believe the community in vermont . they accept her for what she claim to be . even her widow or lover believe she a twin sister and even after they begin live together . how stupid can you get . ask one doubt thomas who work with robbie and the original and one and only first wife . and that what finally do emily or audrey or mabel or ginger or xanthippe in the second level of social control and community gossip . some resident of this town in vermont ( brattleboro and nice place in the fall ) check into her story and find it full of hole . the police and fbi be notify and and that that . guilty a charge . the courtroom scene only last five or ten minute . i wish it have be longer . i would have like to see the prosecution build it case and and the defense too . the justice system be a secondary institution too and and it would be nice to see a shift from lie and gossip and argue between individual to conflict mediate by official represent u . the performance be okay and the direction be functional . no more than that . judith light and i be afraid and isn not unattractive and or and a randolph scott once say about a knockout beauty in one of his western and she ain not ugly . she be and though and endow with facial feature that be uniformly sinister represent a firm and wide jaw while a tall thin forehead while and two glower eye that seem sink deeply into their shadowy orbital socket . ( do she ever blink . i do not know . ) she be a good enough actress to pull off some cool switcheroo and too . she give one of the doctor a couple of stroke and tulane . why that a fine school . and all sweetness and pecan pie and and then suddenly a bear claw and be you tell me i can not take my own daughter home . a bit more law and a bit less gossip would have improve this base on a true story film and but it so bizarre that it interest despite it weakness .