Kate Devore (Rebecca Sand; 1912-1995) is the villainess from "The Opportunity," episode 7.33 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (airdate May 22, 1962). She is the wife of Paul Devore, and the couple are in an unhappy marriage. Despite this, Kate refuses to grant Paul a divorce, as she is unwilling to hand half of her fortune to him.
In the end of the episode, Kate walks in to the home to find Paul tied up and the house burglarized, with Kate's safe robbed (by Paul, who set up the scenario). She considered Paul lucky that the burglars didn't kill him, but instead of freeing Paul from his "capture," Kate turned heel and took the opportunity to kill Paul, doing so by smothering him with a pillow. The villainess committed the murder to avoid an expensive divorce, but as revealed in Hitchcock's closing narrative, the evil Kate ended up arrested for Paul's murder.
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- Kate Devore is similar to CSI: NY villainess Elizabeth Ferguson, as both were women in unhappy marriages who faced losing a lot financially in a divorce. Both women also resorted to murder to avoid such a predicament, and in each case, the husbands were in vulnerable positions, allowing the evil wives to easily kill them.
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