Bonita "Bonnie" Johnson (Caroline Cave) is a hidden villainess from the 2018 Hallmark film, Darrow & Darrow: Body of Evidence, the third film of the Darrow & Darrow series (airdate October 14, 2018). She is the assistant of Tom Graham at his firm.
A year prior to the events, Tom Graham was murdered, and his wife, Laura, was arrested and convicted of the crime. Claire Darrow and Miles Strasburg took the case after a friend of Laura's believed that she was innocent, and they would encounter Bonnie during the investigation's progression. Other than her job at the firm, Bonnie was a stage actress, and during a trial proceeding in the film's climax, she responded to the reveal that she purchased a wig by stating that she had a red wig for a performance at a play. However, it was later revealed that Bonnie had donned another wig during the night of Tom's murder: a brunette wig used to pose as Laura.
Tom owed a lot of money due to gambling debts, though Laura--who was wealthy--refused to bail him out financially, which angered Tom immensely. With that, Tom decided to mastermind a plot to fake his death and steal from his own firm, while enlisting lawyer Guy Hanson and Bonnie in the scheme. Regarding Bonnie's role, she donned a brunette wig and posed as Laura, creating an argument to fool an elderly couple. The staged murder was set to take place on Tom's boat, but when Tom and Guy argued over payment, the men fought, ending with Guy killing Tom with a bat. Seeing as they were planning to stage the death anyway, the evil Bonnie planted her clothes in Laura's home, allowing Laura to be convicted of her husband's murder and leaving her to serve a year in jail. The villainess later went through with the original plan to embezzle from the firm.
All of the details were revealed in the trial, with Bonnie claiming that it was self-defense. However, Claire not only revealed the embezzlement, but she also outed Guy as the actual killer, leading to his arrest. It can be assumed that Bonnie was arrested (off-screen) for her role in the conspiracy and embezzlement.
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- Caroline Cave also played psychotic villainess Vanessa Miller in Accidental Obsession.