Especially when it's so antithetical to what the person seemed to stand for and the traits they embodied.
Vicky was supposed to be an upstanding citizen, upholder of the law, by-the-book, professional...it's hard to reconcile that with what happened IMO.
Yes. The fact that this appears to be a two-year relationship leads me to believe she was a lot more cunning than anyone knew, and not the person people thought she was, because this was not a recently brewing impulsive act.
Two references keep recurring to me.
One is a Bible verse, James 1:8, "a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." That is true. She was double-minded and now in a very precarious position.
The other is a silly reference that hasn't crossed my mind in 50+ years. I don't know if anyone will even know it. In 1967 the Monkees (a band that I don't know if anyone else was into as a pre-teen, but I was) had a song called "Mr. Webster."
It's about a guy who worked at the bank for 40 years, thwarted 27 robberies, etc., and his colleagues were throwing him his retirement party. Then a telegram came, from Mr. Webster...not going to attend the party, "I've flown away and taken all your money."
When I was 11 this made me gasp. How can someone do that? Be fake when everyone around him thought he was so stable and upright?
Obviously this is fictional, just a song, not about a violent murderer, but it made an impression upon me at the time ,which has floated to my conscious mind because of this Vicky White.