Abby Biggs and Janet Sterling are the two main antagonists from the season 5 episode "If Looks Could Kill" of CSI: Miami. Although they became partners in crime in order to achieve their common goals, in the tradition of Canterbury Tales, their partnership fell apart over their personal greed/treacheries and ended up ultimately killing each other.
Abby Biggs was portrayed by Joelle Carter, and Janet Sterling was portrayed by Kari Wuhrer.
Abby Biggs[]
Abby Biggs
Abby Biggs was a junior partner for J.A. Models, an agency for male models. She and her senior partner, Janet Sterling, were also cohorts in a murderous scheme; placing insurance policies on their clients and having them killed to collect the financial benefits. Their spree began by accident; one of their models died while in a sauna, and when they saw the payout ($2 million to be exact), they decided to do the same to their other clients.
During an interrogation, Abby was informed by Calleigh that Janet put out a $6 million life insurance policy on her, and after learning this, Abby confronted Janet and shot her to death. Before killing Janet however, Abby received a set a lip gloss from Janet, and she was putting it on her lips while she was being interrogated regarding Janet's murder. Unbeknownst to Abby, Janet laced the lip gloss with arsenic, and she succumbed to the effects and died during her interrogation.
Janet Sterling[]
Janet Sterling
Janet Sterling was the senior partner for J.A. Models, an agency for male models. As revealed in the episode, Janet and her partner, Abby Biggs, were also cohorts in a murderous scheme; placing insurance policies on their clients and having them killed to collect the financial benefits. Their spree began by accident; one of their models died while in a sauna, and when they saw the payout ($2 million to be exact), they decided to do the same to their other clients.
However, the evil Janet had no more plans to continue her partnership with Abby, with the added fact that Abby was being interrogated by Calleigh, and she put out a $6 million insurance policy on her former partner. Janet gave furious Abby who barged in to confront Janet, a set of lip gloss, which she laced with arsenic. But she was shot to death by Abby afterwards, dying before her former associate. Still, Janet successfully killed Abby when she put on the poisoned lip gloss, ending the episode with Canterbury-esque touch.
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- Janet and Abby are inspired by both the Black Widows of Liverpool case and Massimo Morlacchi and Contessa Cristina Cuomo, the two main villains of the early giallo film Blood and Black Lace.
