
Psychotic accuser Vera Dutton
Vera Dutton (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) is a villainess from the 2017 Lifetime film Mommy, I Didn't Do It (airdate January 1, 2017). She is the widow of murdered teacher Gene Dutton.
Julie Plainview (the film's main protagonist) also revealed that Vera was insanely jealous, as she often visited the former's high school to spy on Gene due to her belief that every girl at the school was lusting after him. After her husband was stabbed to death, the crazed woman falsely informed the police that Julie was obsessed with him to the point that she stalked him, leading to the female latter's arrest. Vera's brief and only appearance in the film saw her being visited at her workplace by Ellen Plainview—Julie's mother—with the latter expressing her condolences to the former.
In spite of that, Vera revealed her twisted personality by lashing out at Ellen and defending her deceptive statements to the police about the latter's daughter, stating that her fingerprints were found in Gene's car. She also callously justified her belief that Julie had an affair with her husband before murdering him by disclosing that she witnessed her attempting to visit him at the Dutton residence. In truth, however, Julie had gone there to retrieve her tennis racket, as Gene also happened to be her tennis coach. During her rant, the evil Vera referred to Julie as a "little tramp" and threatened to call the police if Ellen visited her again. Furthermore, the maniacal villainess concluded her tirade by saying that she hoped Julie "burns in hell." Although her ultimate fate was left unknown, the film's climax revealed that Julie's then-best friend committed the murder in order to exact revenge against Gene for romantically rejecting her.
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- Jamie-Lynn Sigler previously played Elsa on Dads and Sasha Boyd on CSI: Cyber.
- Vera Dutton is similar to Marla Bracketts from The Wrong Woman (Lifetime's 2013 prequel to Mommy, I Didn't Do It), as both of them were deceptive villainesses who falsely implicated the films' respective protagonists for a crime they never committed solely out of a strong desire to exact revenge on them.