Martha Peters: Difference between revisions

It was later revealed that Martha suffered from some form of mental illness, and probably had for many years. This illness may have fueled her beliefs about Martin and caused her to act out in as-yet unrevealed manners to drive female admirers away from her son. At one point, Martin mentioned a rumor of something “nasty” that his mother had done to his ex-girlfriend, [[Sarah Dalton]], but that he also had no idea what exactly it was.

When Martha first confronted her son about Daria, she did so in front of a group of parishioners, and that experience ended with Martin being slapped - twice. She later tried to “reason” with Daria to keep them apart. That failed, and when the two teens went off alone again, she tried to find them. In the process, she burst in on a married couple having sex because she believed that it was Daria and her son. That incident, coupled with a physical assault on Daria the next morning, resulting in Martha being censured by the church elders and being put on warning.

The woman’s mental illness manifested itself then, and she was caught up in a psychotic episode where she shot and killed both her husband (setting the family home ablaze and leaving him inside to die) and Glen Bates. She also shot a woman and assaulted and nearly killed Daria before being shot herself by [[Odell Jones]] (an act which would have later repercussions.)

Martha managed to escape from the area, but was attacked and killed by a pack of feral dogs in the wilderness. Her body was later found and buried by an armed posse from Carthage; it was strongly insinuated that the dogs fed upon Martha’s body after killing her.