History Recap / ColdCaseS4E9LonelyHearts

* GoldDigger: Implied with Martha's ex-roommate Stephanie, who only dates high-ranking wealthy men. They also do extensive background checks for their potential mates, which causes her to downplay her friendship with Martha to detectives.

Found at the scene of a man’s suicide is the dating service tape of 33-year-old Martha Puck, reopening her 1989 murder case.

* GoldDigger: Implied with Martha's roommate, who only dates high-ranking wealthy men. They also do extensive background checks for their potential mates, which causes her to downplay her friendship with Martha to detectives.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While heroism might be overstating things a bit, the victim turned SerialKiller Martha. Whilst the things this Martha did were cold and savage she did actually feel bad about her actions and even tried to make up for them; unfortunately, this got her killed.
* TheBlueBeard: Ramon was initially just a con artist until his girlfriend convinced him to marry several women just so they can kill them and get the insurance money and, in the end, had five dead wives.

* FatalFamilyPhoto: A variation of this: Ramon is watching Martha's dating tape from the late 1980s when he commits suicide. The television screen is even splattered with his blood.

* HotGuyUglyWife: The handsome lothario liked to court unattractive women, mostly because he knew they were so desperate they'd put up with his crap and, therefore, be easy to scam. But when his latest victim calls him out and instead of turning him in, suggests working with him and ratcheting up their schemes to include murder, he seems downright turned on. When she herself is killed (not by him, ironically), he's so despondent that he never takes up with another partner and years later finally kills himself while watching a videotape that she made, implying that he genuinely fell in love with her.

* TheMourningAfter: In an unlikely turn of events, Ramon was left genuinely heartbroken by Martha's murder. While he did give the outside persona of a narcissistic {{Prettyboy}} and even continued dating after her death [[spoiler: including her killer, Eugenia (who he never knew killed her), according to her, he never really got over her death, culminating in his suicide seventeen years later.]]

* ShutUpKirk: The killer expresses this towards Scotty and Lilly when confessing to the murder, saying how unpleasable jerks like him find anything to complain about in women like her and that a thin, blonde woman like Lilly is more likely to be put on a pedestal.

* {{Jerkass}}: Scotty is surprisingly insensitive to the victims of this episode, making personal remarks about their looks and even mocking the fact that the handsome boyfriend finally committed suicide over losing his "ugly" girlfriend years earlier.

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A handsome con-artist commits suicide as an awkward and overweight woman's dating-service tape, which eventually resulted in a relationship, plays on his VCR. The team then reopens her 1989 murder.

* TheBlueBeard: The husband in the former episode was initially just a con artist until his girlfriend convinced him to marry several women just so they can kill them and get the insurance money and, in the end, had five dead wives.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Martha feels guilty about the genuinely evil things she's done and tries to pair back up with a woman who they conned. [[spoiler:She ends up being killed by her, who is still in love with her con artist husband.]]
* HotGuyUglyWife: The handsome lothario liked to court unattractive women, mostly because he knew they were so desperate they'd put up with his crap and, therefore, be easy to scam. But when his latest victim calls him out and instead of turning him in, suggests working with him and ratcheting up their schemes to include murder, he seems downright turned on. When she herself is killed (not by him, ironically), he's so despondent that he never takes up with another partner and years later finally [[DrivenToSuicide kills himself]] while watching a videotape that she made, implying that he genuinely fell in love with her.

* ShutUpKirk: The killer expresses this towards Scotty and Lilly when confessing to the murder, saying how unpleasable jerks like him find anything to complain about in women like her and that a thin, blonde woman like her is more likely to be put on a pedestal.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Invoked by Martha, who believes she's done this with her serial killer husband and attempts to backstab and kill him with another woman. [[spoiler:It goes wrong, and ironically her husband seems to have genuinely loved her.]]

* AdaptationalHeroism: While Heroism might be overstating things a bit, the victim turned SerialKiller Martha. Whilst the things this Martha did were cold and savage she did actually feel bad about her actions and even tried to make up for them; unfortunately, this got her killed. Ramon, on the other hand, had absolutely no remorse for her actions which were arguably worse since she drowned one of her victim's two year old daughter. With that in mind this Martha comes away looking relatively innocent.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While Heroism might be overstating things a bit, the victim turned SerialKiller Martha. Whilst the things this Martha did were cold and savage she did actually feel bad about her actions and even tried to make up for them unfortunately this got her killed. Martha Beck on the other hand had absolutely no remorse for her actions which were arguably worse since she drowned one of her victims two year old daughter. With that in mind this Martha comes away looking relatively innocent.
* TheBlueBeard: The husband in the former episode was initially just a con artist until his girlfriend convinced him to marry several women just so they can kill them and get the insurance money and in the end, had five dead wives.

* HotGuyUglyWife: The handsome lothario liked to court unattractive women, mostly because he knew they were so desperate they'd put up with his crap and therefore be easy to scam. But when his latest victim calls him out and instead of turning him in, suggests working with him and ratcheting up their schemes to include murder, he seems downright turned on. When she herself is killed (not by him, ironically), he's so despondent that he never takes up with another partner and years later finally kills himself while watching a videotape that she made, implying that he genuinely fell in love with her.

* AdaptationalHeroism: While Heroism might be overstating things a bit, the victim turned SerialKiller Martha. Whilst the things this Martha did were cold and savage she did actually feel bad about her actions and even tried to make up for them unfortunately this got her killed. The real Martha on the other hand had absolutely no remorse for her actions which were arguably worse since she drowned one of her victims two year old daughter. With that in mind this Martha comes away looking relatively innocent.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes / EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Evil murderer and con artist Raymond appears to have genuinely loved Martha, as he watched her tape before being DrivenToSuicide.

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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: