Patrick Maloney's Murder

A 43 year old detective Patrick Maloney, husband of Mary Maloney was found dead in his ‘loving’ home on the evening of September 16th, 1954 around 11:00pm. Mary was heartbroken when she came home and found her beloved husband lying dead on the ground. However, the cause of death was a mystery. When the police had arrived at the scene of the crime, it had looked like someone broke into their home and that they were looking for something. The police had investigated for hours but couldn’t seem to find any evidence or a specific lead. The only information that Mary could provide was that he seemed a little ‘off’ coming home from work that he had been stressed out about something.

I decided to interview the Maloneys’ neighbour to see what information

they could provide. “Patrick has been acting odd. He’s usually happy when he’s out in about but when he comes home, that happiness is drained from him.” Said Janice Howlter, Patrick and Mary’s neighbour. Howlter said she didn’t have much information on him, but she has given us another source of information. Maloney’s friend from work, Jimmy Santos. “It’s true his marriage has been a little one-sided lately,” Santos started. “He met this new girl at work and they’ve been getting along pretty well. He’s mentioned something about leaving Mary for her. But he just needed the right time to tell her,” Santos had explained.
With new information added to this case, we can finally interview Mary Maloney. I had asked Mary if Patrick mentioned something about another woman being in his life when he got home from work. “He hasn’t mentioned anything to me.” Mary replied. I told Mary about what Santos told me and she was shocked. I asked her what Patrick usually did when he got home from work and what he did today. “Well, he usually gives me a kiss and gets a glass of soda mixed with whiskey,” Mary replied.
“I had made the observation that the glass of whiskey didn’t have soda. That he took it straight.” I told her. “Maybe he had a rough day at work,” Mary replied. “Did he kiss you or did you kiss him?” I asked. “He was tired so I kissed him,” Mary told me. “Are you sure he didn’t have something on his mind?” “Positive.”
It took quite a while to get any useful information out of Mary. But after a few hours of interrogation, Mary finally broke and admitted to murdering Patrick herself out of pure rage. Mary had explained that when Patrick came home, he told her about the other woman, and she swung a giant frozen lamb leg at his head and killed him instantly. Mary Maloney was then arrested for the murder of Patrick Maloney.