Jolene Maggart

Jolene Maggart is the main antagonist from the 1996 film A Promise to Carolyn. She is the step-mother of her three step-daughters, the still-alive Kay Maggart-Wilbanks and Debra Maggart-Harper and the deceased baby Carolyn Yvonne Maggart.

1955
Butch and Jolene were not married, but still boyfriend and girlfriend. Jolene took her boyfriend Butch's three daughters known as her three step-daughters, 5-year-old Kay, 3-year-old Debra, and 1-year-old Carolyn from their Aunt Lettie and sent them with her to the Woods Motel. She found out they wanted to go back to their mom Francie and with their Aunt Lettie but, Jolene allowed the three to never go back to their mom and aunt again. Jolene angrily caught Carolyn hiding under the bed and dragged her out and spanked her and made her cry in pain and told Kay and Debra to get to bed.

A day later, after their dad Butch went off to work, his girlfriend Jolene, their step-mother began to first hurt both Kay and Debra and told them to scrub the bathroom floor. While Kay and Debra were scrubbing the bathroom floor, Jolene tried to get the shoes on a crying Carolyn and started slapping her and suddenly, Jolene yanked baby Carolyn out of the high chair and killed her by throwing her to the ground. Carolyn stopped crying and died in Jolene's hands

At Carolyn's grave, Jolene showed to Kay and Debra the burial of their deceased sister, and asked that Kay remembered. Kay never remembered because she was too young. In later 1956, Butch and Jolene married.

1992
37 years later, two female adult sisters Kay and Debra told the detectives and the police that Jolene killed Carolyn. They said that she liked to hurt them by feeding them soap, shampoo, body wash, lotion, laxatives, and tissues that made them sick. Suddenly, the police arrived and placed Jolene under arrest with a warrant for the murder of Carolyn.

In court, while her sister Kay was next door, Debra told the judge and the jury that her step-mother Jolene murdered her sister Carolyn. Then she herself told them that there was nothing she or Kay could do to stop Jolene from taking Carolyn from earth. Jolene was found guilty for Carolyn's murder and sentenced to six years in the women's jail.