Homicidal

In 1958, in Ventura, California, a woman named Miriam Webster checks in the Ventura Hotel and offers US$ 2,000.00 to the bellboy Jim Nesbitt to marry her by the end of the night. They travel to the distant justice of the peace Alfred S. Adrims late night and out of the blue, she brutally stabs Adrims. After killing the man, she flees in Nesbitt's car. Lt. Miller seeks out the owner of a flower shop Miriam Webster in a nearby town, but Nesbitt tells to the police detective that she is the wrong woman. The killer is indeed the nurse Emily, who takes care of the old Helga Swenson, who became mute and invalid after a stroke. Helga was the nanny of Warren, who is the half-brother of Miriam that will inherit a large fortune since he is a male. When Miriam's shop is trashed and her boyfriend Karl Anderson is hit on the head, they suspect of Emily based on the police sketch on the front page of the newspaper. Warren returns from Denmark and Miriam and Karl learn that Emily is his wife. But Karl heads to Ventura with a picture of Emily to meet Lt. Miller. Soon dark secrets about Warren and Miriam's family are disclosed.