Lombard, Trudy
Appeared in Memory in Death (December 19-26, 2059)
Personal Information[]
- General Description: A vicious, sadistic woman. Just another predator.[1]
- Age: 58
- Hair: Reddish blond
- Eyes: Grass green
- Relationships: Bobby Lombard (son); Zana Lombard (daughter in law)
- Occupation: Foster parent/Grifter [2]
Description[]
- Her hair was worn in a cap that had apparently exploded into curls and her skin was very white except for the pink on her cheeks, the pink on her lips. She was big-boned (soft and plump) with a Texas twang in her voice and smelled of roses.[3]
- She had enjoyed being tended to and was lazy.[4]
History[]
- Eve’s first foster mother (in Summervale, Texas – just north of Lufkin); it’s been more than twenty years since they’ve seen each other.[5]
- Trudy made ‘her girls’ wash in cold water morning and night (because they were filthy); she locked them in the dark; every day there were punishments like scrubbing the kitchen with a toothbrush.[6]
- She had eleven other children under her care over the years.[7]
- She had several body sculpting procedures over the last, roughly, dozen years. Face and body, tucks and nips. Nothing major but considerable work, and good work at that.[8]
- Trudy had once smashed up her own car, spray painted it and blamed the boy across the street.[9]
- Trudy fostered Zana Lombard, though Trudy did not know this as Zana was previously known as Marnie Ralston and staged her own death in Club Zed.[10]
- Other foster children: Maxie Grant, probably Marlee Peoples, either Pru or Alex (presumably Pru if she only fostered girls), Carly Tween (incomplete list)[11]
Homicide Information[]
- TOD: 01:28 (1:28 a.m.) [12]
- COD: Multiple blows to the back of Trudy’s head with a blunt instrument.[13]
- Morris notes that Trudy’s other injuries were older by twenty-four hours or more (incurred about thirty hours before fatal blows).[14]
- Morris believes the head injuries were caused by the same weapon as the earlier injuries to her body. Eve and Morris agree that she gave herself the previous beating.[15]
Interesting Facts[]
- Trudy saw, and recognized, Dallas on screen when Dallas was being interviewed about the Icove case and the Quiet Birth fiasco.[16]
- On their trip to New York, the Lombard family stayed in the West Side Hotel (Trudy stayed in room four-fifteen).[17]
- Trudy visited Roarke and told him she wanted two million dollars or she’d go to a reporter and tell them about Eve and what she was like as a child. Trudy kept files on all her foster girls. Roarke scared her and she ran away.[18]
- She beat herself with a sock filled with credits, striking her face, her hip, her thigh, then the belly, to make it appear she had been attacked and roughed up.[19]
- After Trudy left Roarke’s office, she stopped by Blossom Boutique and National Bank to get the makings for her sap.[20]
References[]
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 30
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 116
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 17-18
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 96-97
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 19, 38
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 29
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 63
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 126
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 186-187, 197
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 212, 346
- ↑ Memory in Death, Chapter 14
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 105
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 93-94
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 105, 125
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 125, 156-158
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 20, 31
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 49, 75, 86
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 46, 49
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), p. 76
- ↑ Memory in Death (ISBN 0-425-21073-1), pp. 180, 239