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Rhonda Jaffe (Jane Daly) is the main villainess from The Mentalist's second season opener, "Redemption" (airdate September 24, 2009). She is the CEO of the Jaffe Printing Company, but as revealed later on, Rhonda embezzled $1 million from her own company.

To keep her villainous secret hidden, Rhonda made a deal with one of her employees, Monica Denninger, in which Monica took the fall for the theft in exchange for a monthly fee and the best cancer treatments for Monica's son, Ansel. Ansel's cancer was in remission, but Rhonda knew that Monica wouldn't go away as long she was continuously getting paid. To silence her, the evil Rhonda killed Monica at her apartment complex, knocking Monica out with a stun gun and suffocating her with a pillow.

A "fishing" operation by Jane and Cho led to Rhonda being revealed as Monica's killer, and the evidence was an account book with a DVD that featured Monica explaining everything, found by Rigsby at a public library. Rhonda was later arrested (off-screen) for embezzlement and murder.

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